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A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History) by Michael Bronski
Julie Abraham John Adams
Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935)

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888)
 
Michael Amico Robert Anderson Stephen Pearl Andrews
Kenneth Anger (born February 3, 1927)
Sholem Asch Robert Baden-Powell
Joan Baez (born January 9, 1941)
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
James Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987)

Tallulah Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968)

Ann Bannon (born September 15, 1932)

James Barr aka James Fugatι (February 13, 1922 - March 28, 1995)

Lisa Ben aka Edith Eyen (born November 7, 1921)
Edmund Bergler Alexander Berkman
Allan Bιrubι (December 3, 1946 – December 11, 2007)
Mary McLeod Bethune Irving Bieber James Hervey Bingham
Pat Bond (February 27, 1925 — December 24, 1990)
Daniel Boone
David Bowie (born January 8, 1947)
William Bradford Marlon Brando
Alan Bray (October 13, 1948 - November 25, 2001)
Lucy Brewer John Briggs Richard Brooks

Brigid Brophy, Lady Levey (June 12, 1929 – August 7, 1995)

Richard Meeker aka Forman Brown (January 8, 1901 - January 10, 1996)

Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Anita Bryant Cannary Burke
John Horne Burns (October 7, 1916 – August 11, 1953)
Edgar Rice Burroughs

William S. Burroughs (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997)

Paul Cadmus (December 17, 1904 – December 12, 1999)
Rory Calhoun Frank S. Caprio
Edward Carpenter (August 29, 1844 - June 28, 1929)
Tyler Carpenter Mary Casal Albert Cashier
Charles Gilbert Chaddock Charles I George Chauncey Badger Clark Montgomery Clift Joseph Collins Anthony Comstock
Chris Connor (November 8, 1927 – August 29, 2009)

Blanche Wiesen Cook (born April 20, 1941)
James Fenimore Cooper Merian C. Cooper Caleb Crain Davy Crockett
George Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983)

Countee Cullen (May 30, 1903 – January 9, 1946)

Charlotte Saunders Cushman (July 23, 1816 – February 18, 1876)
Moll Cutpurse Charles Darwin
F. Holland Day (July 8, 1864 - November 12, 1933)
James Dean
John D'Emilio (born September 21, 1948)
Elsie DeWolf Molly Dewson
Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886)

Marlene Dietrich (December 27, 1901 – May 6, 1992)
Troy Donahue Mary Douglas Marie Dressler
Jeanne Eagels (June 26, 1890 – October 3, 1929)

Thomas Eakins (July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916)
Sarah Emma Edmonds Albert Ellis

Havelock Ellis (February 2, 1859 – July 8, 1939)

Julian Eltinge (May 14, 1881 – March 7, 1941)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marie Equi (April 7, 1872 – July 13, 1952)

Edith Eyen aka Lisa Ben (born November 7, 1921)

Tom Eyen (August 14, 1940 - May 26, 1991)

Lillian Faderman (born July 18, 1940)
Jerry Falwell

Frances Faye (November 4, 1912 – November 8, 1991)
Leslie Fiedler Mary Fields Shulamith Firestone Bruz Fletcher
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (August 7, 1890 – September 5, 1964)

Jim Fouratt (born June 23, 1945)
Benjamin Franklin
Sigmund Freud Betty Friedan Trixie Friganza Margaret Fuller Annette Funicello
Greta Garbo (September 18, 1905 – April 15, 1990)
Judy Garland Martin Gay
Sue Gilbert Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997)

Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940)
Sylvester Graham Edith Guerrier
Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965)
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Harry Hay (April 7, 1912 – October 24, 2002)

Matilda Hays (September 8, 1820 – July 3, 1897)
Lillian Hellman Katherine Hepburn Angela Heywood
Lorena Hickok (March 7, 1893 – May 1, 1968)

Patricia Highsmith (
January 19, 1921 - February 4, 1995)

Magnus Hirschfeld (May 14, 1868 – May 14, 1935)
Adolf Hitler
Libby Holman (May 23, 1904 – June 18, 1971)
J. Edgar Hoover Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
Harriet Hosmer (October 9, 1830 - February 21, 1908)
Richard Hovey Julia Ward Howe Samuel Gridley Howe

Rock Hudson (November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985)

Tab Hunter (born July 11, 1931)
Anne Hutchinson Washington Irving
Christopher Isherwood (August 26, 1904 - January 4, 1986)
Andrew Jackson Alice James Henry James
James I Thomas Jefferson
Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909)

Jill Johnston (May 17, 1929 – September 18, 2010)
James Jones LeRoi Jones Mary Harris Jones aka Mother
T.C. Jones (October 26, 1920 – September 21, 1971)
Janis Joplin
Jennie June aka Earl Lind (born 1874)

Jonathan Ned Katz (born 1938)
John Harvey Kellogg John F. Kennedy Jack Kerouac
Karl-Maria Kertbeny (February 28, 1824 - January 23, 1882)
James G. Kiernan
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Alfred Kinsey (June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956)

Larry Kramer (born June 25, 1935)

George Kuchar (August 31, 1942 – September 6, 2011)
Michael Kuchar Marquis de Lafayette Bert Lahr Esther Lape

W. Dorr Legg (December 15, 1904 - July 26, 1994)
Lew Levenson Edmonia Lewis
J.C. Leyendecker (March 23, 1874 – July 25, 1951)

Beatrice Lillie (May 29, 1894 – January 20, 1989)
Abraham Lincoln
Earl Lind (born 1874)
Robert J. Lindner
Little Richard
Audre Lorde (February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992)
Frederick W. Loring
Amy Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925)

Charles Ludlam (April 12, 1943 – May 28, 1987)

Phyllis Lyon (born November 10, 1924)
Bernarr Macfadden Guy Madison
Norman Mailer Malcolm X
Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955)

Elizabeth Marbury (June 19, 1856 - January 22, 1933)

Del Martin (May 5, 1921 - August 27, 2008)
William Masters Virginia Johnson Cotton Mather
Joseph McCarthy Mary McCarthy
Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967)
Aimee Semple McPherson
Marijane Meaker aka Vin Packer aka Ann Aldrich aka M.E. Kerr aka Mary James (born May 27, 1927)

Richard Meeker aka Forman Brown (January 8, 1901 - January 10, 1996)

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891)
Adah Isaacs Menken
Ethel Merman Thomas Middleton Thomas Dekker
Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945)

Harvey Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Kate Millett (born September 14, 1934)

Sal Mineo (January 10, 1939 – February 12, 1976)
Vincente Minnelli Bob Mizer R.I. Moore Agnes Moorehead Thomas Morton Willard Motley
George Nader (October 19, 1921 - February 4, 2002)

Pola Negri (January 3, 1897 – August 1, 1987)
Ricky Nelson Leslea Newman Esther Newton Huey Newton
Blair Niles (1880 - April 13, 1959)

Harold Norse (July 6, 1916 - June 8, 2009)

Ramσn Novarro (February 6, 1899 – October 30, 1968)

Richard Bruce Nugent (July 2, 1906 - May 27, 1987)

Peter Orlovsky (July 8, 1933 - May 30, 2010)

Marijane Meaker aka Vin Packer aka Ann Aldrich aka M.E. Kerr aka Mary James (born May 27, 1927)
Dorothy Parker
Robert Patrick (born September 27, 1937)
Cindy Patton William Penn
Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992)
Fritz Peters
Elvis Presley
Edward Prime-Stevenson (July 23, 1858 - July 23, 1942)

Nicholas Ray (August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979)
Ronald Reagan
Mary Renault (September 4, 1905 – December 13, 1983)

Sylvia Rae Rivera (July 2, 1951 - February 19, 2002)
Pat Robertson
Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962)
Theodore Roosevelt Gayle Rubin
Bayard Rustin (March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987)
Deborah Sampson Eugen Sandow
Margaret Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966)

John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925)
Beryl Satter

Sarah Schulman (born July 28, 1958)
Charley Shively Irving Shulman Robert Shurtliff Frank Sinatra
Jack Smith (November 14, 1932 - September 25, 1989)

Hannah Snell (April 23, 1723 – February 8, 1792)
Peter Stallybrass

Emma Stebbins (September 1, 1815 - October 25, 1882)

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946)

Charles Warren Stoddard (August 7, 1843, – April 23, 1909)
Charles Sumner
John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893)
Eva Tanguay Alfred Tannyhill
Bayard Taylor (January 11, 1825 – December 19, 1878)
Andre Tellier Gerald Tesch M. Cary Thomas Frank Thompson Lydia Thompson Henry David Thoreau
Tom Tryon (January 14, 1926 – September 4, 1991)
Harriet Tubman
Mark Twain Royall Tyler
Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs (August 28, 1825 - July 14, 1895)
Rudolph Valentino
John Van Druten (June 1, 1901 – December 19, 1957)
Jean-Claude van Itallie
Gore Vidal (October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012)

Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden (September 16, 1856 – February 16, 1931)
Loren Wahl Lillian Wald
Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987)
George Washington Daniel Webster Ida Wells Ralph Werther Mae West

Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892)

John Wieners (January 6, 1934 – March 1, 2002)
Michael Wigglesworth William Wilberforce
Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900)

Gale Wilhelm (April 6, 1908 – July 11, 1991)
Jemima Wilkinson Frances Willard
Roger Williams
Tennessee Williams (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983)
Calder Willingham John Winthrop Theodore Winthrop
Carl Wittman (February 23, 1943 - January 22, 1986)
Victoria Woodhull Nathaniel Hill Wright
Philip Wylie
Marguerite Yourcenar (June 8, 1903 – December 17, 1987)
Howard Zinn          

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