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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">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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