100 Heroes

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100 Heroes

100 Heroes: John Henry Newman

The gay man who became a saint.

100 Heroes

100 Heroes: William Lygon

The gay man who became a powerful politician but was blackmailed because of his sexuality.

100 Heroes

100 Heroes: Friedrich Alfred Krupp

The gay man who built the German war machine.

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100 Heroes: Frank Prewett

The gay man who created his own identity and became a literary sensation.

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100 Heroes: Socrates

The gay man who shaped the way the world thinks.

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100 Heroes: Monroe Wheeler

The gay man who played a key role in the development of American queer identity.

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100 Heroes: Abraham Lincoln

The gay man who became president of the United States.

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100 Heroes: Robert Boothby

The gay man who was at the centre of political scandal.

100 Heroes

100 Heroes: Bill Tilden

The gay man who dominated the world of tennis.

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100 heroes: Peter Allen

The talented boy from Oz.

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100 Heroes: Christopher Marlowe

The gay man who helped shaped Elizabethan literature.

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100 Heroes

100 Heroes: John Henry Mackay

100 Heroes

100 Heroes: Emile Griffith

The bisexual boxer who ruled the ring.

100 Heroes

100 Heroes: Langston Hughes

The gay man who helped shape the Harlem Renaissance.

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100 Heroes: Derek Jarman

The gay man who became an iconic queer film-maker.

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100 Heroes: Charles Gordon

The gay man who became a military hero.

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100 Heroes: David Kato

An activist in Uganda who was killed because he stood up against homophobia.

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100 Heroes: Frederick the Great

The gay man who ruled Prussia.

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100 Heroes: Hadrian

The gay man who ruled the Roman Empire.

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100 Heroes: Lord Byron

The gay man who became one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement.

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100 Heroes: Francis Bacon

The gay man who demonstrated the power of science.

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100 Heroes: Sergei Eisenstein

The gay man who shaped the art of film.

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100 Heroes: Duncan Grant

The gay man who became one of the key figures in the Bloomsbury Group.

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100 Heroes: Cary Grant

The gay man who became one of Hollywood's leading men.