100 Heroes

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100 Heroes

100 Heroes: Thom Gunn

The gay man who chronicled the AIDS pandemic through poetry.

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100 Heroes: Edward Carpenter

One of the pioneers of gay rights.

100 Heroes

100 Heroes: Ivor Gurney

The gay man who became an important poet and composer.

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100 Heroes: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

The gay man who pioneered the gay rights movement.

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100 Heroes: Christopher Isherwood

The gay man who wrote iconic queer novels.

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100 Heroes: Chuck Renslow

The gay man who helped create the art of homoerotic photography.

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100 Heroes: Ludwig II of Bavaria

The gay man who became King.

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100 Heroes: Leonard Bernstein

The gay man who composed one of the world's most-loved musicals.

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100 Heroes: Willem Arondéus

The gay man who an artist, an author, and a fighter with the anti-Nazi resistance.

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100 Heroes: James Gruber

The gay man who helped establish the LGBTQ equality movement.

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100 Heroes: Jim Kepner

The gay man who was one of the early leaders of the LGBTQ equality movement.

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100 Heroes: John Koch

The gay man who became an influential painter.

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100 Heroes: T. E. Lawrence

The gay man who was Lawrence of Arabia.

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100 Heroes: Wallace Thurman

The gay man who helped define a creative movement.

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100 Heroes: Rudi Gernreich

The gay man who was a groundbreaking fashion designer and queer activist.

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100 Heroes: Andy Warhol

The gay man who demonstrated the power of fame.

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100 Heroes: Steve Endean

The gay man who was instrumental in the campaign for LGBTQ equality.

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100 Heroes: Horatio Kitchener

The gay man who was a ruthless warrior.

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100 Heroes: Walter Pater

The gay man who became an influential advocate of aestheticism.

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100 Heroes: Rupert Brooke

The gay man who became an important war poet.

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100 Heroes: Lord Ronald Gower

The gay man who inspired Oscar Wilde.

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100 Heroes: James Baldwin

The gay man who changed the world with his words.

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100 Heroes: Gerard Manley Hopkins

The gay man who became of the world's leading poets.

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100 Heroes: Jody Dobrowski

The gay man whose murder became a turning point for in the response to homophobic hate-crimes in the UK.

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100 Heroes: Thomas Eakins

The gay man who showed us how to capture the male nude in painting and photography.