100 Heroes

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100 Heroes

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: 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: Tom Driberg

The gay man at the centre of political intrigue.

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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: 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: 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.

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100 Heroes: Tom of Finland

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100 Heroes: Tchaikovsky

The gay man who was one of the world's greatest composers.

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100 Heroes: Robert Bernays

The gay man who played an important role in WWII.

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100 Heroes: Hans Heinrich von Twardowski

The gay man who fled the Nazis to become a Hollywood star.

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100 Heroes: Keith Haring

The gay man who became one of his generation's leading artists.

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100 Heroes: R. W. Ketton-Cremer

The gay man who helped tell the story of decriminalisation in the UK.

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100 Heroes: Constantine Cavafy

The gay man who became an influential poet.

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100 Heroes: Ludwig Wittgenstein

The gay man who shaped philosophy.

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100 Heroes: Cy Twombly

The gay man who became one of the world's leading artists.

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100 Heroes: Edward II

The gay man who became King of England.

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100 Heroes: Charles Silverstein

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100 Heroes: William Shakespeare

The gay man who shaped English drama.