[1]Karl Heinrich ULRICHS [2] (1825 - 1895), the first ever gay man to speak out publicly for civil rights of gay people;
Harvey MILK [3] (1930 - 1978), the first ever openly gay US-politician elected to a public office;
Oscar WILDE [4] (1854 - 1900), poet & playwright;
Harry HAY [5] (1912 - 2002), co-founder of the Mattachine Society and of Radical Faeries;
Dr. Magnus HIRSCHFELD [6] (1868 - 1935), physician, sexologist, and gay rights advocate.
Edward CARPENTER [7] (1844 - 1929), poet and early gay rights activist;
Adolf BRAND [8] (1874-1945) writer, publisher of the magazine "Der Eigene";
Larry KRAMER [9] (1935 - living), author and gay rights activist;
Peter TATCHELL [10] (1952 - living), gay rights campaigner, spokesman of Outrage!;
Dr. Franklin E. KAMENY [11] (1925 - living), gay rights activist;
Bayard RUSTIN [12] (1912 - 1987), civil rights activist;
Sir Ian MCKELLEN [13] (1939 - living), actor;
Manfred BRUNS [14] (1934 - living), lawyer and gay rights activist;
Rosa VON PRAUNHEIM [15] (1942 - living) film director and gay rights activist;
Alan TURING [16] (1912 - 1954) mathematician, logician, and cryptographer;
Peter TCHAIKOVSKY [17] (1840 - 1893), composer;
Pierre SEEL [18] (1923 - 2005), former KZ prisoner, gay activist;
Theodor WIDDIG [19] (uncertain, ca. 1870 - ca. 1921+), cobbler in Cologne, early-day gay activist from the working class;
John Henry Mackay [20] (1864 - 1933), writer;
Yukio MISHIMA [21] (1925 -1970), writer;
Fyodor SOLOGUB [22] (1863 - 1927), writer;
Craig SCHOONMAKER [23] (?? - living), a gay rights activist, editor of HI! and co-founder of the "Expansionist Party of the United States";
Volker BECK [24] (1960 - living), politician;
Klaus WOWEREIT [25] (1953 - living), politician, mayor of Berlin (Germany);
Bertrand DELANOE [26] (1950 - living) - politician, mayor of Paris;
Paul-Marie VERLAINE [27] (1844 - 1896), poet;
Arthur RIMBAUD [28] (1754 - 1891), poet;
Christopher ISHERWOOD [29] (1904 - 1986), writer;
Michael DENNENY [30] (?? - living), writer and editor;
Nokolai ALEXEJEV (?? - living), gay rights activist;
Fannyann EDDY [31] (1974 - 2004), lesbian activist in Sierra Leone;
Brian WILLIAMSON [32] (?? - 2004), gay rights aktivist in Jamaica.
Everett George KLIPPERT [33] (1926-1996), the last person in Canada to be arrested, charged, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned for homosexuality before its legalization in 1969; the reforms which led to Canadian legalization of homosexuality were a direct result of the Klippert case.
Roy COHN [34] (1927-1986), Clout merchant & political kingmaker;
Guy BURGESS [35] (1911-1963), Soviet spy;
Anthony BLUNT [36] (1907-1983), Soviet spy;
Michel FOUCAULT [37] (1926-1984), Philosopher & writer;
Jean GENET [38] (1910-1986), Writer;
Marcel PROUST [39] (1871-1922), Writer;
Rainer Werner FASSBINDER (1945-1983), Film director;
Gus Van SANT [40] (1952- living), Film director
Wolfgang PETERSEN [41] (1941-living), Film director
Pier Paolo PASOLINI [42] (1922-1975), Poet, intellectual, film director, painter, activist & writer.
Thomas MANN (1875-1955), Writer.
André GIDE [43] (1869–1951), Writer.