Famous/Highly Visible Queers

[Queerasfck]

If it wasn't for apretty I'd probably be desperately seeking Sandra and be one of those weird stalker groupies. I've seen her in concert about five times. The last time was in San Francisco. We were practically ten feet from her!
She's political, fierce, daring, intelligent, oozes sexual energy and I find her so sexy. Sandra Bernhard is just like the gal I love and live with!

[weatherboi]

[Daywalker]

Weatherboi stole mine.


I plan to be Famous one day,
why not just post a Paparazzi pic of myself?



Ok...ok...I'll be back later to actually 'participate' in this Grand idea.

[UofMfan]

Cynthia Nixon.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0633223/

[cinderella]

'My' Mayte...in all her glory *sigh*.
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULCGn85HdCQ&feature=related"]YouTube- MAYTE MART�N - Ten cuidao![/nomedia]

[EnderD_503]

I know there are more, but I mainly based this on musicians/authors/philosophers/politician etc. that I really like or I feel have done something really important.

Rob Halford
As a diehard metalhead, I figured I’d start with this one. For those who don’t know, Rob Halford is the singer of Judas Priest with one of the most widely hailed voices in metal. Besides being the frontman of one of the world’s most well-known heavy metal bands (not to mention one of metal’s founding bands along with Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden), he was also largely responsible for bringing the leather culture into heavy metal (straight from the gay scene, though he didn’t come out as gay to his fans until 1998).

Clive Barker
Is a well-known English author. For those of you familiar with the horror film Hellraiser, it is based on his novella, Hellbound Heart. His books often feature homosexual/queer characters, which has done nothing to diminish his popularity among horror fans worldwide, that's for sure. His books have been translated into a number of different languages.

Timothy Findley
A famous Canadian author. His most well-known work is called The Wars (Governor General’s Award in 1977, the year of its publication), which is widely considered to be a Canadian classic.

Roland Barthes
An extremely influential 20th century French philosopher/critical theorist primarily concerned with structuralism and semiotics. It’s unlikely that you’ll ever take a 20th century critical theory or philosophy course that doesn’t mention him.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Aka Peter Tchaikovsky, aka Tchaikovsky Think Nutcracker and Swan Lake.

Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès
French lawyer who wrote the Napoleonic Code upon which French law is founded.

Jóhanna Sigurðadóttir
First female Icelandic Prime Minister and first openly homosexual prime minister/president/head of government in the world.

Marcel Proust
Probably don’t need to say anything about this one either. Famous French author, most known for À la recherche du temps perdu (aka In Search of Lost Time).

Leonardo DaVinci
Do I need to say anything at all

Ralph Waldo Emerson
A famous American transcendentalist and one of my favourite philosophers. He was bisexual, but I assume that counts.

Except for Emerson, all the other individuals I mentioned above were/are either gay or lesbian. Some other famous bisexuals who people don’t often recognise as such: Hans Christian Anderson and Michel Foucault (actually, if you look at many 20th century critical theorists, you’ll find many gay/lesbian and bisexual individuals like Judith Butler, Simone de Beauvoir and the aforementioned Roland Barthes).

[Medusa]

The famous couple:

[Cyclopea]

[The_Lady_Snow]

Martina Navratilova (born October 18, 1956) is a Czech-American tennis player and a former World No. 1. Billie Jean King said about Navratilova in 2006, "She's the greatest singles, doubles and mixed doubles player who's ever lived."[1]

Navratilova won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 Grand Slam women's doubles titles (an all-time record), and 10 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. She reached the Wimbledon singles final 12 times, including 9 consecutive years from 1982 through 1990, and won the women's singles title at Wimbledon a record 9 times. She and King each won 20 Wimbledon titles, an all-time record. Navratilova is one of just three women to have accomplished a career Grand Slam in singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles (called the Grand Slam "boxed set").

*Wikipedia information*

[Medusa]

Come to my window!!

Melissa Ethridge: American rock-singer/songwriter

At the 20th Annual Juno Awards in 1990, Etheridge won International Entertainer of the Year.[13]
Etheridge has won the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance twice in her career, for the songs "Ain't It Heavy" in 1992, and "Come to My Window" in 1994.[14]
In 1996 she was awarded ASCAP's Songwriter of the Year Award.
In 2001, she won the Gibson Guitar Award for Best Rock Guitarist: Female.[15]
In 2006, at the 17th GLAAD Media Awards, Etheridge received GLAAD's Stephen F. Kolzak Award, honoring openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender media professionals who have made a significant difference in promoting equal rights.[16] In addition, she was awarded as Outstanding Music Artist for Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled.
On February 25, 2007, Etheridge received the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "I Need to Wake Up", the theme song to the Al Gore-moderated, Academy Award winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. The award was presented by Queen Latifah and John Travolta.
On February 18, 2009, Etheridge was named the "Celebrity Marshall" for Boston's 2009 Pride Parade, by the Boston Pride Committee.

(from wikipedia)

[SuperFemme]

[Hack]

http://www.billystrayhorn.com/biography.htm

Billy Strayhorn, jazz composer. Worked a great deal with Duke Ellington. If you know "Take the A Train," you know Billy Strayhorn. He composed "Take the A Train" based on the lyrical quality of Duke Ellington's voice on the telephone, as Ellington gave him directions to his house in Harlem.

I am a huge, huge jazz fan...and a major fan of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington.

A sidenote: Ellington was heterosexual. In an interview I saw with his daughter, she acknowledged the close friendship between her father and Strayhorn, saying they were as close as two men could be and not actually be lovers.


[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb2w2m1JmCY"]YouTube- Duke Ellington, "Take the A Train"[/nomedia]

[Hack]

Bayard Rustin, chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King delivered his amazing "I Have a Dream" speech. Rustin was a colleague of Dr. King.

http://rustin.org/

[Queerasfck]

Buck Angel.

[Hack]

http://www.cammermeyer.com/

Grethe Cammermeyer, who challenged the military's ban on gays and lesbians serving, and was reinstated. I think it's cool, too, that she is still with her partner, Diane Divelbess.

[Hack]

Elena Kagan, currently serving as the U.S. Solicitor General (and the first woman to do so), and also currently on the short list to become the next U.S. Supreme Court Justice when Justice Stevens retires this summer. And, shhhhhh.....she's an out lesbian.

[moxie]

Jane Addams, the founder of modern-day social work.



She was also the second woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 for her activism against war. She was known as an internationalist, a feminist and a pioneer of civil responsibility.

Very fascinating woman.

[Soon]

Originally Posted by EzeeTiger

Buck Angel.

On my computer the image didn't show up, so I am including one:

[Nat]

Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore

2007 - In front of a full house of hardcore Potter fans at Carnegie Hall in New York, Rowling, sitting on the stage on a red velvet and carved wood throne, read from her seventh and final book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," then took questions. One fan asked whether Albus Dumbledore, the head of the famed Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft, had ever loved anyone. Rowling smiled. "Dumbledore is gay, actually," replied Rowling as the audience erupted in surprise. She added that, in her mind, Dumbledore had an unrequited love affair with Gellert Grindelwald, Voldemort's predecessor who appears in the seventh book. After several minutes of prolonged shouting and clapping from astonished fans, Rowling added. "I would have told you earlier if I knew it would make you so happy."

[Cyclopea]