100 Heroes

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100 Heroes

100 Heroes: Pier Paolo Pasolini

The gay man who became a groundbreaking filmmaker.

100 Heroes

100 Heroes: Hector Archibald Macdonald

The gay man who lost his military career in a sex scandal.

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100 Heroes: Lytton Strachey

The gay man who created the genre of literary biography.

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100 Heroes: Chopin

The gay man who became one of the world's most famous composers.

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100 Heroes: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

The gay man who became one of the world's most important philosophers.

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100 Heroes: Wakefield Poole

The gay man who helped establish gay erotic cinema.

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100 Heroes: George Handel

The gay man who created some of the world's finest operas.

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100 Heroes: W. H. Auden

The gay man who gave the world beautiful poetry.

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100 Heroes: Harmodius and Aristogeiton

The gay men who were important political figures in Ancient Greece.

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100 Heroes: John Henry Newman

The gay man who became a saint.

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100 Heroes: William Lygon

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

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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.

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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: John Henry Mackay

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100 Heroes: Emile Griffith

The bisexual boxer who ruled the ring.

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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.