100 Heroes

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100 Heroes

100 heroes: William Bankes

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

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100 Heroes: John Preston

The gay man who became a leading author of gay erotica.

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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.

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100 Heroes: Philip Sassoon

The gay man who became an important politician.

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100 Heroes: Frederic Leighton

The gay man who became a celebrated painter and sculptor.

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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: Antinous

The gay man who was deified by a Roman Emperor.

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100 Heroes: James Pratt and John Smith

The last men to be executed in England for Sodomy.

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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: Jimmie Daniels

The gay man who was a key player in the Harlem Renaissance.

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100 Heroes: Erté

The gay man who embodied an iconic sense of style.

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100 Heroes: André Gide

The gay man who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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100 Heroes: Benjamin Britten

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100 Heroes: Harold Nicolson

The gay man who became an important political figure.

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100 Heroes: Rock Hudson

The gay man who became one of the most famous actors of his generation.

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100 Heroes: Dennis Severs

The gay man who created a unique performance of queer history.

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100 Heroes: Kenneth Ray Stubbs

The gay man who shaped the teaching of tantra and sacred sexuality.

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100 Heroes: Rex

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100 Heroes: Aaron Copland

The gay man who is one of the greats of American music.

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100 Heroes: Robert Louis Stevenson

The gay man who wrote of some of the world's most iconic stories.

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100 Heroes: Roland Barthes

The gay man who helped shape the way we communicate.

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100 Heroes: David, King of Israel

The gay man who killed Goliath.

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100 Heroes: Richard Burton

The gay man who became a Hollywood icon with a powerful personality and magnetic presence.