
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. Andrι 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 Anzaldϊa (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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