The 12 Greatt Female Gay Ins of All Time; Also: Nathan & Matthew back together on Broadway

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From Catwoman to Ursula, the female characters movi and TV have gone on to be gay ins thanks to their fashn, humor, and absolute ditn to mp.

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WHAT MAK A ‘GAY IN’?

Wh same-sex marriage now legal all parts of the UK, n sometime be easy to fet how different attus to homosexualy were the past, and how much change has taken place over the past 50 years. For hundreds of years gay people have stggled to be accepted and treated the same as people who are not fact wasn't until 1967, that two men were able to be a relatnship together whout the fear of beg stands for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr.

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10 FEMALE MOVIE AND TV CHARACTERS WHO ARE NOW GAY INS

Alan TurgAlan Turg was not a well known figure durg his lifetime, but today he is famo and celebrated for the ccial part he played the victory over Nazi Germany was a mathematician who cracked somethg lled the Enigma , which is thought to have shortened the war by several was also a victim of mid-20th Century attus to homosexualy and 1952 was arrted bee beg homosexual was illegal Bra at this 2013 he was pardoned for this 'crime', and 2017 the ernment agreed to officially pardon men acced of 'crim' like this, meang they will no longer have a crimal pardong has e to be known as the Alan Turg 2019 Turg was named the most "inic" figure of the 20th Century and his face now appears on the £50 note. Osr WilImage source, Napoleon Sarony/Universal History ArchiveOsr Wil is one of the famo playwrights of all time, fact, you might even have studied 'The Importance of Beg Earnt' - one of his most famo plays - at was married to a woman and had two sons, but was later acced of beg homosexual.

Johnson was an Ain Amerin transgenr-rights activist, whose work the 1960s and 1970s had a huge impact on the LGBT this time, beg gay was classified as a mental illns the Uned Stat. Gay people were regularly threatened and beaten by police, and were shunned by many June 1969, when Marsha was 23 years old, police raid a gay bar New York lled The Stonewall Inn.

Later the North Wt Commtee was transformed to the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly (CHE), which was the largt LGBT anisatn there has ever been the UK, wh more than 5, 000 members and 120 lol groups all over the untry when was at s 's role the removal of the stigma of crimaly om homosexualy remaed his crowng achievement. He began his reer as a journalist before workg for MI6, and beg prcipal of Aberystwyth was asked to jo the ernment's mtee lookg to homosexual offenc which led to the Wolfenn Report, which remend that havg a homosexual relatnship should no longer be a crimal laid the foundatns for a later law which partially crimalised male homosexualy for the first time England and Wal.

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">Mon Jun 05 2023<span class="jsx-756195809 -divir"></span><a href="/blog/thor/emmawaterhoe" class="jsx-756195809">By <!-- -->Emma Waterhoe</a></div></div><div class="mb-40 relative w-100-pct h-400-qm h-200"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;overflow:hidn;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0"><img alt="Pri In Nam Celebrate Diversy" siz="(m-width: 620px) 50vw, 100vw" srcSet="/_next/image?;w=384&q=75 384w, /_next/image?;w=640&q=75 640w, /_next/image?;w=750&q=75 750w, /_next/image?;w=828&q=75 828w, /_next/image?;w=1080&q=75 1080w, /_next/image?;w=1200&q=75 1200w, /_next/image?;w=1920&q=75 1920w, /_next/image?;w=2048&q=75 2048w, /_next/image?;w=3840&q=75 3840w" src="/_next/image?;w=3840&q=75" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:ver"/></span></div><div class="mb-20"></div><div class="News-post t-py"><p>Happy Pri 2023! </p><p>Pri in nam celebrate the LGBTQ+ muny and the spirg history behd the fight for equal rights.</p><p>It's more than half a century sce the first Pri paras took place New York, Los Angel, San Francis and Chigo, memoratg the Stonewall Rts of the prev summer.</p><p>Today, we're shg a light on some inic figur of the LGBTQ+ movement – all wh equally inic nam, of urse!</p><p>You n read more about the <a href=">history of Pri</a> here, or follow the lks the scriptns to fd out more about the spirg people featured below.</p><div class="jsx-2172534438 Full-width-ad mb-20 mt-20 htlad-InContent_Flex"></div><h2><b>16 Pri In Nam</b></h2><div class="relative w-100-pct h-400-ql h-200 mt-30 mb-30"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;overflow:hidn;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:nta"/><noscript><img siz="(m-width: 620px) 50vw, 100vw" srcSet="/_next/image?;w=384&q=75 384w, /_next/image?;w=640&q=75 640w, /_next/image?;w=750&q=75 750w, /_next/image?;w=828&q=75 828w, /_next/image?;w=1080&q=75 1080w, /_next/image?;w=1200&q=75 1200w, /_next/image?;w=1920&q=75 1920w, /_next/image?;w=2048&q=75 2048w, /_next/image?;w=3840&q=75 3840w" src="/_next/image?;w=3840&q=75" dg="async" data-nimg="fill" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-f:nta" loadg="lazy"/></noscript></span></div><h4><b>Audre</b></h4><p>Long before the ncept of “tersectnaly” was on anyone’s radar, wrer, femist and civil rights activist <b>Audre</b> Lor was <a href=">shg a light</a> on the most margalized society. </p><p>Her name – a streamled spellg of ntemporary classic <b>Audrey</b> – boasts the ftg meang of “noble strength”.</p><h4><b>Bayard</b></h4><p>A close associate of Mart Luther Kg and the <a href=">chief archect</a> of the 1963 March on Washgton, <b>Bayard</b> Rt has only recently started to receive the regnn he serv for his lifetime of activism. </p><p>His trigug name om a French word meang “sset red”.</p><h4><b>Edie</b></h4><p>A <a href=">trailblazg mpaigner</a> for marriage equaly, <b>Edie</b> Wdsor famoly fought the US feral ernment a landmark 2013 lawsu which paved the way for the legalizatn of same-sex marriage across all stat two years later. </p><p>Cute retro nickname <b>Edie</b> ranks below the Top 1000 the US, but jt outsi the Top 100 nickname-lovg Bra.</p><div class="jsx-2172534438 Full-width-ad mb-20 mt-20 htlad-InContent_Flex"></div><h3><b>Gilbert</b></h3><p>Artist and LGBTQ rights activist <b>Gilbert</b> Baker may not be a hoehold name, but you’re sure to regnize his most famo creatn: <a href=">the rabow flag</a>. </p><p>Genteel <b>Gilbert</b> is one of the edgit old man nam for boys right now, but looks like uld be on the cp of a revival.</p><h4><b>Gracy</b></h4><p>A veteran of the Stonewall rts, Miss Major Griff-<b>Gracy</b> has been a<a href="> lifetime advote</a> of transgenr rights, and was the origal lear of the TGI Jtice Project. </p><p><b>Gracie</b> is the more popular spellg of the name the US, but the -y endg feels a ltle ls sweet and a ltle more sleek.</p><h4><b>Harvey</b></h4><p>As California’s first openly gay elected official, <b>Harvey</b> Milk achieved a great al for the LGBTQ muny durg his short tenure, which <a href=">end tragedy</a> when he was assassated jt ten months after enterg office. </p><p><b>Harvey</b> is a genial old-timey name which is a Top 100 pick Atralia, NZ and the UK.</p><h4><b>Jazz</b></h4><p>The youngt activist on this list, TV personaly and trans rights mpaigner <b>Jazz</b> Jenngs has spent more than half her life <a href=">publicly documentg</a> her own transn. </p><p><b>Jazz</b> is an appealg choice that has surprisgly never ught on, spe s fashnable sound and ol mil nnectns</p><h4><b>Kahlo</b></h4><p>Renowned Mexin artist Frida <b>Kahlo</b> was openly bisexual, and <a href=">ed her art</a> to explore her sexualy and other topics nsired taboo at the time. </p><p>Her famo surname would make for an spirg artistic baby name. Intertgly, ’s more popular the US for boys.</p><div class="jsx-2172534438 Full-width-ad mb-20 mt-20 htlad-InContent_Flex"></div><h3><b>Lili</b> or <b>Lilli</b></h3><p>The story of <b>Lili</b> Elbe, one of the <a href=">earlit known recipients</a> of genr reassignment surgery, was fictnalized the book (then film) <i>The Danish Girl</i>. Another famo bearer is journalist and LGBTQ rights activist <b>Lilli</b> Vcenz. </p><p>The -i endg forms of <b>Lily</b> have historilly been most popular Germany and Hungary – although we expect to see an uptick e the English-speakg world too, due to <b>Lilibet </b>"<b>Lili</b>", dghter of the De and Duchs of Ssex.</p><h4><b>Lyon</b></h4><p>Phyllis <b>Lyon</b> and Del Mart ma history when they beme the first same-sex uple to marry California… <i>twice</i>, after their first marriage was void. <b>Lyon</b>, who was also a <a href=">lifelong activist</a>, passed away April 2020. </p><p>This fierce surname name uld make an excellent unsed alternative to the <b>Leo</b> fay of nam.</p><h4><b>Magn</b></h4><p>In 1897, German physician <b>Magn</b> Hirschfeld found the world’s first LGBTQ rights anizatn Berl, and was a <a href=">vol mpaigner</a> for the crimalizatn of sexual and genr mori. </p><p>Meang “great”, <b>Magn</b> is a strong Sndavian optn that entered the US Top 1000 for the first time 2013.</p><h4><b>Marsha</b></h4><p>One of the most inic figur of the Stonewall movement, <b>Marsha</b> P. Johnson also -found the Gay Liberatn Front and <a href=">several other anizatns</a> geared towards mpaigng and supportg margalized groups. </p><p>Peakg the 1950s, <b>Marsha</b> – which riv om <b>Mars</b>, another ol possibily – has a gentle hompun feel but a ftgly fierce meang: “warlike”.</p><div class="jsx-2172534438 Full-width-ad mb-20 mt-20 htlad-InContent_Flex"></div><h3><b>Rivera</b></h3><p>A close iend and associate of Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia <b>Rivera</b> was an <a href=">pecially vol advote</a> for groups she felt were overlooked even by the LGBTQ muny, such as the homels. </p><p>Her retro first name is already climbg back up the populary charts, but surname-meets-nature-name <b>Rivera</b> is also worthy of nsiratn.</p><h4><b>Sappho</b></h4><p>Ancient Greek poet <b>Sappho</b> was a <a href=">celebrated lyricist</a> her lifetime and beyond, and is the orig of the words <i>sapphic</i> and <i>lbian</i> – om Lbos, the Greek island where she was born. </p><p>Wh other o-endg girls’ nam like Cleo and Juno on the rise, <b>Sappho</b> uld make for a strikg alternative.</p><h4><b>Stormé</b></h4><p>Dubbed the “Rosa Parks of the LGBTQ muny”, ’s mored that was <b>Stormé</b> DeLarverie who kickstarted the rebelln at Stonewall. She was also an <a href=">fluential entertaer and activist</a>. </p><p>Her trigug name is pronounced like the word <i>stormy</i>.</p><h4><b>Wolfson</b></h4><p>Attorney Evan <b>Wolfson</b> has <a href=">dited his reer</a> to mpaigng for same-sex marriage, foundg the anizatn Freedom to Marry 2003 and servg as s print until marriage equaly was ma law 2015. </p><p><b>Wolfson</b> is another fierce-soundg surname name which we thk has ser baby name potential<i>.</i></p></div></div><div class="g"><div class="pubexchange_module" id="pubexchange_below_ntent" data-pubexchange-module-id="908"></div></div><div class="g"><div class="jsx-2659819741 "><h2 class="jsx-2659819741 Page-sectn-tle t-label f-0 t-ret-qm f-2-qm bold-qm pt-10 pt-30-qm mt-40 mt-30-qm mb-30"><span class="jsx-2659819741 -text">About the Author</span></h2></div><h2 class="mb-20">Emma Waterhoe</h2><div class="Author-rd "><div class="thor-b mb-20"><div><p>Emma Waterhoe joed the team 2017, wrg about everythg om the <a href=">top baby name trends 2023</a> to <a href=">how not to choose the next big baby name</a>. As Nameberry's head morator, she also helps to keep our active <a href=">foms muny</a> tickg. </p><p>Emma's articl on nam and namg trends have been featured publitns cludg the <a href=">Huffgton Post</a>, <a href=">People</a>, <a href=">Today's Parent</a>, <a href=">Fatherly</a>, and <a href=">Good Hoekeepg</a>.</p><p>A lguist by background, Emma speaks several languag and liv England's smallt unty wh her hband and four young children. You n reach her at </p></div></div><div><div class="jsx-695121994 More mt-10 w-100pct mb-30 bold t-label"><a href="/blog/thor/emmawaterhoe" class="jsx-695121994 fl-r block">View all of Emma Waterhoe's articl<span class="jsx-2999155332 In mr-5"><span class="jsx-2464474020 Svg "><svg width="20px" height="20px" viewBox="0 0 20 20" versn="1.1"><tle>Chevron - Right .

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