Source: The Gay 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Gay Men and Lesbians, Past and Present by Paul Russell

1. Socrates	2. Sappho	3. Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900)	4. Magnus Hirschfeld (May 14, 1868 – May 14, 1935)	5. Patrons of the Stonewall Inn: Stormé DeLarverie (born December 24, 1920)	6. Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892)	7. Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946)	8. Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs (August 28, 1825 - July 14, 1895)
9. Edward Carpenter (August 29, 1844 - June 28, 1929)	10. John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893)	11. Mary Wollstonecraft (April 27, 1759 – September 10, 1797)	12. Susan B. Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906)	13. Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941)	14. Alexander the Great (July 20 or 21, 356 – June 10 or 11, 323 BC)	15. Hadrian (24 January 76 – 10 July 138)	16. St. Augustine of Hippo (November 13, 354 – August 28, 430)
17. Michelangelo Buonarroti (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564)	18. Leonardo da Vinci	19. Christopher Marlowe (February 26, 1564 - May 30, 1593)	20. William Shakespeare	21. Johann Joachim Winckelmann (December 9, 1717 – June 8, 1768)	22. Harry Hay (April 7, 1912 – October 24, 2002)	23. Harvey Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978)	24. Queen Christina of Sweden (December 18, 1626 – April 19, 1689)
25. Edward II (April 25, 1284 – September 21, 1327)	26. Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935)	27. Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886)	28. Radclyffe Hall (August 12, 1880 – October 7, 1943)	29. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (May 7, 1840 – November 6, 1893)	30. André Gide (November 22, 1869 – February 19, 1951)	31. Marcel Proust (July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922)	32. Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 – June 25, 1984)
33. Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987)	34. John Cage (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992)	35. Ruth Benedict (June 5, 1887 – September 17, 1948)	36. James Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987)	37. Hāfiz	38. George Gordon Byron, sixth baron Byron of Rochdale, Lord Byron (January 22, 1788 – April 19, 1824)	39. Lady Eleanor Charlotte Butler (May 11, 1739 – June 2, 1829) and Honorable Sarah Ponsonby (1755 – December 9, 1832)	40. David and Jonathan
41. Petronius	42. Amazons	43. Natalie Clifford Barney (October 31, 1876 – February 2, 1972)	44. Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962)	45. Jean Genet (December 19, 1910 – April 15, 1986)	46. Sergey Diaghilev (March 31, 1872 – August 19, 1929) & Vaslav Nijinsky	47. Adrienne Rich (May 16, 1929 - March 27, 2012)	48. Larry Kramer (born June 25, 1935)
49. Tennessee Williams (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983)	50. Rosa Bonheur (March 16, 1822 – May 25, 1899)	51. Arthur Rimbaud (October 20, 1854 – November 10, 1891) and Paul Verlaine (March 30, 1844 - January 8, 1896)	Audre Lorde (February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992)	53. We'wha	54. Florence Nightingale (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910)	55. Willa Cather	56. Barney Frank (born March 31, 1940)
57. Bayard Rustin (March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987)	58. E.M. Forster (January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970)	59. M. Carey Thomas (January 2, 1857 - December 2, 1935)	60. Christopher Isherwood (August 26, 1904 - January 4, 1986)	61. Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975)	62. Yukio Mishima (January 14, 1925 – November 25, 1970)	63. Rock Hudson (November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985)	64. Vita Sackville-West (March 9, 1892 – June 2, 1962) and Sir Harold Nicolson (November 21, 1886 – May 1, 1968)
65. Elsie de Wolfe (December 20, 1865 – July 12, 1950)	66. Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987)	67. Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997)	68. Marlene Dietrich (December 27, 1901 – May 6, 1992)	69. Quentin Crisp (December 25, 1908 – November 21, 1999)	70. H.D. aka Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961)	71. Dr. Sara Josephine Baker (November 15, 1873 – February 22, 1945)	72. Romaine Brooks (May 1, 1874 – December 7, 1970)
73. Benjamin Britten	74. Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944)	75. Kate Millett (born September 14, 1934)	76. Martina Navratilova	77. Barbara Gittings (July 31, 1932 – February 18, 2007)	78. Martin Bauml Duberman (born August 6, 1930)	79. Gloria Anzaldúa (September 26, 1942 – May 15, 2004) and Cherrie Moraga (born September 25, 1952)	80. Mary Renault (September 4, 1905 – December 13, 1983)
81. Sir Francis Bacon (January 22, 1561 – April 9, 1626)	82. Derek Jarman (January 31, 1942 – February 19, 1994)	83. Alan Turing (June 23, 1912 – June 7, 1954)	84. Roy Cohn (February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986)	85. Anna Freud (December 3, 1895 – October 9, 1982)	86. Entertainers of Harlem : Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) / Gladys Bentley / Ma Rainey	87. Tom Waddell (November 1, 1937 - July 11, 1987)	88. Holly Near (born June 6, 1949)
89. Rudolf Nureyev (March 17, 1938 – January 6, 1993)	90. Freddie Mercury (September 5, 1946 – November 24, 1991)	91. Judy Grahn (born July 28, 1940)	92. Edmund White (born January 13, 1940)	93. Katherine Philips (January 1, 1632 – June 22, 1664)	94. Dame Ethel Smyth (April 23, 1858 – May 8, 1944)	95. Halston (April 23, 1932 – March 26, 1990)	96. Samuel R. Delany (born April 1, 1942)
97. Sir Ian McKellen (born May 25, 1939)	98. James Merrill (March 3, 1926 - February 6, 1995)	99. Madonna	100. Michelangelo Signorile (born December 19, 1960)

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