100 Heroes

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100 Heroes

100 Heroes: Cole Porter

The gay man who showed the world that Anything Goes.

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100 Heroes: John Swann

The gay man who became a pirate.

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100 Heroes: Thomas Mann

The gay man who wrote iconic queer stories.

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100 Heroes: John Maynard Keynes

The gay man who founded macroeconomic theory.

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100 Heroes: Federico García Lorca

The gay man who embodied the poetry of rebellion.

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100 Heroes: Edmund White

The gay man who helped shape contemporary literature.

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100 Heroes: Allen Ginsberg

The gay man who helped define the Beat Generation.

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100 Heroes: George Quaintance

The gay man who helped shape our concept of male beauty.

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100 Heroes: Henry-Russell Hitchcock

The gay man who became one of the fathers of modern architecture.

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100 Heroes: Gilbert Baker

The gay man behind the iconic Pride rainbow flag.

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100 Heroes: Walt Whitman

The gay man who became one of the most influential American poets.

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100 Heroes: Countee Cullen

The gay man who helped shape American literature.

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100 Heroes: Patrick White

The gay man who became a giant of Australian literature.

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100 Heroes: Harry Crookshank

The gay man who became an important British politician.

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100 Heroes: Tom Driberg

The gay man at the centre of political intrigue.

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100 Heroes: Mark Bingham

A gay man whose legacy continues to be celebrated by rugby teams around the world.

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100 Heroes: Harvey Milk

The gay man who led from the front.

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100 Heroes: Robert Culliford

The gay man who ruled the seas as a pirate.

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100 Heroes: Frank Kameny

The gay man who took his unfair dismissal to the Supreme Court and founded the gay rights movement.

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100 Heroes: Bram and Ruel

Two men who were sentenced to death in 1727 for being lovers - their cruel punishment marks the beginning of Australia's European queer history.

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100 Heroes: Charles Sorley

The gay man who was an important war hero.

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100 Heroes: Bartholomew Roberts

The gay man who wrote the pirate code.

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100 Heroes: Magnus Hirschfeld

The gay man who changed the way we think about sexuality.

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100 Heroes: Armistead Maupin

The tales of San Francisco's queer history.

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100 Heroes: J. M. Barrie

The gay man who showed us the power of imagination.