100 Heroes

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100 Heroes

100 Heroes: William Drummond Stewart

The gay man who put the queer into the wild frontier.

100 Heroes

100 Heroes: Quentin Crisp

The gay man who became an icon of queer culture.

100 Heroes

100 Heroes: William Higgins

The gay man who became one of the greatest erotic filmmakers.

100 Heroes

100 Heroes: Prince George, Duke of Kent

The gay man who made the most of his life in the royal family.

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100 heroes: Jean Genet

The gay man who showed the power of political activism.

100 Heroes

100 Heroes: Hal Call

The gay man who became one of the key leaders of the early equality movement.

100 Heroes

100 Heroes: Noel Coward

The gay man who made camp an art-form.

100 Heroes

100 heroes: William Bankes

The gay man who was instrumental in unlocking the secrets of the Rosetta Stone.

100 Heroes

100 Heroes: Donatello

The gay man who is recognised as one of the world's greatest sculptors.

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100 Heroes: Johann Joachim Winckelmann

The gay man who helped establish the discipline of archaeology.

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100 Heroes: Pope Julius II

The gay man who became the Warrior Pope.

100 Heroes

100 Heroes: Philip Sassoon

The gay man who became an important politician.

100 Heroes

100 Heroes: Frederic Leighton

The gay man who became a celebrated painter and sculptor.

100 Heroes

100 Heroes: Billy Strayhorn

The gay man who helped define an era of jazz.

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100 Heroes: Jean-Baptiste Lully

The gay man who helped shape baroque music.

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100 Heroes: Ernst Röhm

The gay man who was killed for being a rival to Hitler.

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100 Heroes: Henri Belolo

The gay man who was the creative force behind the Village People.

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100 Heroes: James Pratt and John Smith

The last men to be executed in England for Sodomy.