100 Heroes

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100 Heroes

100 Heroes: David Hurles

The gay man who became a groundbreaking filmmaker.

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100 Heroes: David, King of Israel

The gay man who killed Goliath.

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100 Heroes: Daniel Defert

The gay man who founded HIV advocacy in France.

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100 Heroes: Karl Lagerfeld

A controversial fashion icon.

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100 Heroes: Ihara Saikaku

The gay man who celebrated the love of the samurai warriors of Japan.

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100 Heroes: Plato

The gay man who shaped our understanding of the world.

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100 Heroes: Siegfried Sassoon

The gay man recognised as one of England's greatest poets.

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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: Cornelius McCarthy

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100 Heroes: Freddie Mercury

The gay man who became an iconic singer.

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100 Heroes: Roger Casement

The gay man who exposed the damage caused by imperialism.

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100 Heroes: André Baudry

The gay man who was one of the key founders of the homophile movement.

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100 Heroes: Thom Gunn

The gay man who chronicled the AIDS pandemic through poetry.

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100 Heroes: Edward Carpenter

One of the pioneers of gay rights.

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100 Heroes: Ivor Gurney

The gay man who became an important poet and composer.

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100 Heroes: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

The gay man who pioneered the gay rights movement.

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100 Heroes: Christopher Isherwood

The gay man who wrote iconic queer novels.

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100 Heroes: Chuck Renslow

The gay man who helped create the art of homoerotic photography.

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100 Heroes: Robert Newburgh

The gay man whose trial established a link between queerness and subversiveness.

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100 Heroes: Ludwig II of Bavaria

The gay man who became King.

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100 Heroes: Leonard Bernstein

The gay man who composed one of the world's most-loved musicals.

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100 Heroes: Willem Arondéus

The gay man who an artist, an author, and a fighter with the anti-Nazi resistance.

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100 Heroes: Mart Crowley

The gay man who created an iconic moment of queer theatre.

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100 Heroes: James Gruber

The gay man who helped establish the LGBTQ equality movement.

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100 Heroes: Jim Kepner

The gay man who was one of the early leaders of the LGBTQ equality movement.