100 Heroes

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100 Heroes

100 Heroes: Eugène Jansson

The gay man who infused his art with sensuality.

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100 Heroes: Wilfred Owen

The gay man who chronicled the First World War.

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100 Heroes: Rudolf Nureyev

The gay man who became an iconic dancer.

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100 Heroes: Vaslav Nijinsky

The gay man who was one of the greatest dancers the world has seen.

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100 Heroes: Will Geer

The gay man who combined acting with activism.

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100 Heroes: Chips Channon

The gay man who became a well-connected politician.

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100 Heroes: Mike Calvert

The gay man who always led from the front.

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100 Heroes: Michelangelo

The gay man who changed the way we thought about the world.

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100 Heroes: Pier Paolo Pasolini

The gay man who became a groundbreaking filmmaker.

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100 Heroes: Hector Archibald Macdonald

The gay man who lost his military career in a sex scandal.

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100 Heroes: Chopin

The gay man who became one of the world's most famous composers.

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100 Heroes: Lytton Strachey

The gay man who created the genre of literary biography.

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100 Heroes: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

The gay man who became one of the world's most important philosophers.

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100 Heroes: Wakefield Poole

The gay man who helped establish gay erotic cinema.

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100 Heroes: George Handel

The gay man who created some of the world's finest operas.

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100 Heroes: Karlheinz Weinberger

The gay man who mastered the art of homoerotic photography.

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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: W. H. Auden

The gay man who gave the world beautiful poetry.

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100 Heroes: John Henry Newman

The gay man who became a saint.

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100 Heroes: William Lygon

The gay man who became a powerful politician but was blackmailed because of his sexuality.

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100 Heroes: Friedrich Alfred Krupp

The gay man who built the German war machine.

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100 Heroes: Frank Prewett

The gay man who created his own identity and became a literary sensation.

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100 Heroes: Socrates

The gay man who shaped the way the world thinks.

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100 Heroes: Monroe Wheeler

The gay man who played a key role in the development of American queer identity.