100 Heroes

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100 Heroes

100 Heroes: Billy Strayhorn

The gay man who helped define an era of jazz.

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100 Heroes: Jean-Baptiste Lully

The gay man who helped shape baroque music.

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100 Heroes: Ernst Röhm

The gay man who was killed for being a rival to Hitler.

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100 Heroes: James Pratt and John Smith

The last men to be executed in England for Sodomy.

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100 Heroes: Henri Belolo

The gay man who was the creative force behind the Village People.

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100 Heroes: Jimmie Daniels

The gay man who was a key player in the Harlem Renaissance.

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100 Heroes: Erté

The gay man who embodied an iconic sense of style.

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100 Heroes: Harold Nicolson

The gay man who became an important political figure.

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100 Heroes: Kenneth Ray Stubbs

The gay man who shaped the teaching of tantra and sacred sexuality.

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100 Heroes: Aaron Copland

The gay man who is one of the greats of American music.

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100 Heroes: Robert Louis Stevenson

The gay man who wrote of some of the world's most iconic stories.

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100 Heroes: Roland Barthes

The gay man who helped shape the way we communicate.

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100 Heroes: James Broughton

The gay man who became a celebrated poet and filmmaker.

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100 Heroes: Hu Tianbao

The gay man who became the revered deity, Tu’er Shen - the rabbit god that oversees love and sex between men.

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100 Heroes: Robert Mapplethorpe

The gay man who brought a queer eye to photography.

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100 Heroes: J.R. Ackerley

After serving in WWI, Ackerley returned to the UK and wrote an acclaimed play about a relationship between two soldiers.

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100 Heroes: Terrence McNally

The gay man who became a celebrated playwright.

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100 Heroes: Benvenuto Cellini

The gay man who created one of the world's most famous autobiographies.

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100 Heroes: Luchino Visconti

The gay man who became one of the giants of film.

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100 Heroes: John Burnside

The gay man who helped begin the march towards equality for LGBTQ people.

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100 Heroes: Tom Waddell

The gay man who created a global sporting movement.

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100 Heroes: Manasse Herbst

The gay man who fled fame and persecution in Nazi Germany and made a new life for himself in the US.

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100 Heroes: Jim Thomas

The gay man who became an important British politician.

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100 Heroes: Evelyn Waugh

The gay man who became a literary giant.

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100 Heroes: Francis Bacon

The gay man whose art grabbed the world's attention.