100 Heroes

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100 Heroes

100 Heroes: John Koch

The gay man who became an influential painter.

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100 Heroes: T. E. Lawrence

The gay man who was Lawrence of Arabia.

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100 Heroes: Wallace Thurman

The gay man who helped define a creative movement.

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100 Heroes: Ian Charleson

The gay man who became a renowned actor.

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100 Heroes: Rudi Gernreich

The gay man who was a groundbreaking fashion designer and queer activist.

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100 Heroes: Andy Warhol

The gay man who demonstrated the power of fame.

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100 Heroes: Steve Endean

The gay man who was instrumental in the campaign for LGBTQ equality.

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100 Heroes: Horatio Kitchener

The gay man who was a ruthless warrior.

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100 Heroes: Walter Pater

The gay man who became an influential advocate of aestheticism.

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100 Heroes: Rupert Brooke

The gay man who became an important war poet.

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100 Heroes: Lord Ronald Gower

The gay man who inspired Oscar Wilde.

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100 Heroes: James Baldwin

The gay man who changed the world with his words.

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100 Heroes: Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

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100 Heroes: Jody Dobrowski

The gay man whose murder became a turning point for in the response to homophobic hate-crimes in the UK.

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100 Heroes: Thomas Eakins

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100 Heroes: Robert Graves

The gay man who became one of Britain's leading writers.

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100 Heroes: Samuel Steward

The gay man who became an iconic tattooist.

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100 Heroes: Edward Prime-Stevenson

The gay man who wrote one of the earliest queer novels of the modern era.

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100 Heroes: Richard Barnfield

The gay man who showed Shakespeare how to write about love.

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100 Heroes: Tab Hunter

The gay man who was a major star in the golden age of Hollywood.

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100 Heroes: Marcel Proust

The gay man who became a literary powerhouse.

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100 Heroes: David Hockney

The gay man who became an iconic painter.

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Queer History: The Vere Street Coterie

Let's not forget our past.

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100 Heroes: Philip Johnson

The gay man who was a ground-breaking designer and shaped our view of the world - but his politics continue to raise questions over his legacy.

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100 Heroes: Bruce Bellas