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Fascatg stori about the most famo gay people the world. From Michelangelo to Ellen DeGener, Out celebrat the liv of notable LGBT figur.

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30 FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD

Bgraphi and analysis of work by Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr+ intified artists, or works associated wh LGBT+ topics. * famous gay painters in history *

From gay paters like Leonardo da Vci and Andy Warhol to bisexuals like Frida Kahlo and trans artists like Lili Elbe and Jefey Cathere Jon, the rabow of great LGBTQ+ paters stretch around the world. In the last 50 years alone, Keh Harg’s drawgs have raised awarens for the AIDS crisis of the ’80s; Nan Gold’s hntg photographs of New York’s unrbelly has shed light on the queer muny; Robert Mapplethorpe shocked the public wh his graphic imag of gay sex acts, promptg a revaluatn of bety and propriety.

Thk Ryan McGley’s gay kissg photographs, Juliana Huxtable‘s provotive multi-media work and Wu Tsang’s vio and performance art, to say nothg of J. In the meantime, we’re takg you on a big gay art history tour through bohemian f, funky studs and dty mm basements to retroduce you to some well-known nam that you might not have known were queer.

It’s a potent and necsary remr that gay love is jt about sex, pecially nsirg how lbian upl have appeared throughout Wtern art history: eroticized, fallen, impure, wchy and bched. When Robert Rschenberg died 2008, both the New York Tim and the Los Angel Tim “fot” to mentn one mor tail of his life their obuari: he was gay.

LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: 5 TE GAY LOVE STORI FOR THE AGOUR LOVE IS {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY DAN AVERYOCTOBER 1, 2016/12:05 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:2298PX;WIDTH:2529PX;}GETTYBY DAN AVERYOCTOBER 1, 2016 / 12:05 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: 5 TE GAY LOVE STORI FOR THE AG","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2016-10-01T16:05:08.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2016-10-01T16:05:08.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","KEYWORDS":"LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}OCTOBER IS LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH, AND WHILE THERE IS CREASG AWARENS ABOUT HISTORIL FIGUR LIKE HARVEY MILK AND ALAN TURG, STORI OF GREAT GAY LOV ARE STILL SHORT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TO HELP REMD THAT QUEER LOVE HAS ALWAYS BEEN WH , WE CELEBRATE FIVE GAY LOVE STORI FOR THE AG.KHNUMHOTEP AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}KHNUMHOTEP AND NIANKHKHNUM WERE EGYPTIAN SERVANTS FOUND BURIED TOGETHER THE TOMB OF KG UNAS. THEIR BODI WERE TERTWED AND THEIR FAC WERE NOSE-TO-NOSE—FUNEREAL GTUR UALLY RERVED FOR MARRIED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE TWO, WHO LIVED AROUND 2400 B.C. THE ANCIENT CY OF SAQQARA, WERE MANICURISTS TO THE ROYAL URT AND AMONG THE FEW PEOPLE ALLOWED TO TOUCH THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THEIR TOMB WAS UNVERED 1964, AND EARLY REPORTS REFERRED TO THEM AS BROTHERS OR "TWS." BUT BY THE LATE '90S EGYPTOLOGIST GREG REER WAS NVCED THEY WERE A ROMANTIC {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NIANKHKHNUM'S WIFE WAS PICTED STG BEHD HIM A BANQUET SCENE THE TOMB, BUT HER IMAGE WAS OBSCURED. IN OTHER SCEN, KHNUMHOTEP OCCUPI THE PLACE NORMALLY ASSOCIATED WH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN SOME HIEROGLYPHS, NIANKHKHNUM AND KHNUMHOTEP'S NAM ARE STNG TOGETHER A WAY THAT ULD MEAN "JOED LIFE AND ATH."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SAID REER, "SAME-SEX SIRE EXISTED JT BEHD THE IAL FA NSTCTED BY THE ANCIENTS."HADRIAN AND ANTOTHE ART COLLECTOR/PRT COLLECTOR/GETTY IMAGPORTRA OF ANTO, MID 2ND CENTURY. ANTO (D130) WAS A BHYNIAN YOUTH WHO WAS THE FAVOURE AND PANN OF THE ROMAN EMPEROR HADRIAN (76-138). ANTO DROWNED THE NILE AND HADRIAN FOUND THE CY OF ANTOPOLIS AT THE SE OF HIS ATH HIS MEMORY. THROUGHOUT THE RT OF HIS LE, HADRIAN MISSNED MANY HUNDREDS OF STATU OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHEN EMPEROR HADRIAN TOOK THE THRONE OF ROME 117 AD, HE HAD ALREADY BEEN CEREMONIALLY MARRIED TO A 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL FOR POLIL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT HIS HEART WENT TO THE YOUNGER ANTO, WHO ENTERED THE EMPEROR’S CIRCLE AROUND 123 AND BY 128 WAS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HADRIAN AS HIS CLOST {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AT THE TIME, SEXUAL RELATNSHIPS BETWEEN OLR AND YOUNGER MEN WERE MON BUT THE ELR MAN WAS GENERALLY EXPECTED TO PARTED WAYS WHEN HIS YOUNG LOVER REACHED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HADRIAN WAS SO TAKEN WH ANTO THAT HE MATAED THE RELATNSHIP UNTIL 130, WHEN ANTO DROWNED UNR MYSTER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE EMPEROR WAS SO VASTATED, HE REMAED OFFICIAL MOURNG FOR EIGHT YEARS AND IFIED HIS YOUNG PARAMOUR, FILLG HIS HOME WH STATU ANTO' LIKENS AND NAMG STARS AND FLOWERS AFTER HIM.VA SACKVILLE-WT AND VLET TREFISHULTON-DTSCH COLLECTN/CORBIS/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGTHE NOVELIST AND POET VA SACKVILLE WT (1892-1962), . {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SACKVILLE-WT, A NOTED ENGLISH POET AND NOVELIST, WAS MARRIED TO  WRER AND POLICIAN HAROLD GEE NILSON, BUT BOTH RRIED ON SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS THROUGHOUT THEIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SACKVILLE-WT'S MOST FAMO PARAMOUR WAS VIRGIA WOOLF, BUT SHE WAS EPLY VOLVED WH VLET TREFIS, A IEND OM CHILDHOOD, FOR MUCH OF HER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THOUGH BOTH MARRIED TO MEN, THE TWO RAN OFF TOGETHER SEVERAL TIM TO FRANCE, STARTG 1918. WHILE THERE, SACKVILLE-WT DRSED AS A MAN WHEN THEY WENT OUT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PRSURE OM THEIR FAI, SOCIETY GOSSIP AND SACKVILLE-WT'S AFFAIRS WH OTHER WOMEN TOOK THEIR TOLL ON THE RELATNSHIP, BUT WAS VA LEARNG TREFIS WAS STILL HAVG RELATNS WH HER HBAND THAT END {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THOUGH THEIR ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP WAS OVER, THEY REMAED VOTED IENDS UNTIL SACKVILLE-WT'S ATH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SACKVILLE-WT'S NOVEL CHALLENGE BEGAN AS A LLABORATIVE EFFORT— FACT, THE MALE CHARACTER'S NAME, JULIAN, WAS SACKVILLE-WT'S ALIAS WHEN PASSG AS A MAN PARIS WH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"SHE FOUGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO LOVE, MEN AND WOMEN, REJECTG THE NVENTNS THAT MARRIAGE MANDS EXCLIVE LOVE, AND THAT WOMEN SHOULD LOVE ONLY MEN, AND MEN ONLY WOMEN," SAID VA'S SON, NIGEL NILSON, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"FOR THIS SHE WAS PREPARED TO GIVE UP EVERYTHG... HOW ULD SHE REGRET THAT THE KNOWLEDGE OF SHOULD NOW REACH THE EARS OF A NEW GENERATN, ONE SO FELY MORE PASSNATE THAN HER OWN?"GERT STE AND ALICE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NOTED AMERIN WRER, MENTOR AND ART LLECTOR GERT STE HAD HAD A STRG OF LBIAN RELATNSHIPS BEFORE WH ALICE B. TOKLAS WHO WAS TO BEE HER PARTNER FOR NEARLY FOUR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GERT STE MET ALICE B. TOKLAS ON SEPTEMBER 8, 1907, TOKLAS' FIRST DAY PARIS, AND THE TWO SWIFTLY BEME NSTANT PANNS. THEIR SALON ATTRACTED SOME OF THE GREATT ARTISTS, WRERS AND THKERS OF EUROPE AND AMERI—HEMGWAY, THORNTON WILR, PISSO, MATISSE, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STE AND TOKLAS BEME FAMO CULTURAL FIGUR WH THE 1933 PUBLITN OF THE AUTOBGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS A SOMEWHAT FICTNAL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THEY WERE A RARE EXAMPLE OF AN OUT UPLE—AS OUT AS ONE ULD BE THE 1920S AND '30S, ANYWAY—AND REMAED VOTED TO EACH OTHER UNTIL STE'S ATH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE PTH OF THEIR RELATNSHIP WAS LAID BARE THE 1980S, WHEN A PREVLY LOCKED BET AT YALE UNIVERSY WAS OPENED: INSI WAS A TROVE OF HUNDREDS OF LOVE LETTERS THE TWO WOMEN HAD WRTEN EACH OTHER.BENJAM BRTEN AND PETER PEARSKEYSTONE/HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGOPERATIC TENOR PETER PEARS (1910 - 1986, STANDG) WH ENGLISH POSER BENJAM BRTEN (1913 - 1976), 6TH NOVEMBER 1962. {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PROVOTIVE POSER BARON BENJAM BRTEN MET TENOR PETER PEARS 1934 AND THE TWO LLABORATED PROFSNALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME THREE YEARS LATER AT A NCERT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THEY BEME LLEAGU, MUTUAL M AND LIFELONG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BRTEN WAS A PACIFIST AND UNAPOLOGETILLY GAY, FACTORS THAT LIMED HIS FAME HIS LIFETIME. BUT HE IS NOW NSIRED ONE OF THE GREATT POSERS OF THE 20TH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PEARS SAID BRTEN'S STRONG ETHIL CENTER RMED ALL HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“I THK THE KEY TO [BEJMA'S] MIC LI HIS MORAL POT OF VIEW BED WH HIS CRAVG FOR LOST NOCENCE BROUGHT ON BY HIS CREASG DISILLNMENT WH MAN.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BRTEN TURNED DOWN A KNIGHTHOOD (PEARS ACCEPTED), BUT LATER BEME THE FIRST POSER TO RECEIVE A LIFE PEERAGE, AS BARON BRTEN. THE TWO ARE BURIED SI BY SI AT ST. PETER AND ST. PL’S CHURCH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE RED HOE ALBURGH, WHERE BRTEN AND PEARS LIVED AND WORKED TOGETHER OM 1957 UNTIL BRTEN'S ATH 19 YEARS LATER, IS NOW THE HOME OF THE BRTEN-PEARS FOUNDATN, TABLISHED TO PROMOTE THEIR MIL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT WAS MA A NATNAL LANDMARK THIS YEAR AS PART OF AN EFFORT TO SPOTLIGHT HISTORIC LGBT VENU {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;WIDTH:M(100%,342PX);MARG:0 TO;POSN:RELATIVE;MARG-TOP:LC(0PX + 24PX);MARG-BOTTOM:24PX;MARG-TOP:24PX;}@MEDIA (M-WIDTH:660PX){{FLOAT:RIGHT;MARG-RIGHT:80PX;MARG-LEFT:24PX;}}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-FLEX-DIRECTN:LUMN;-MS-FLEX-DIRECTN:LUMN;FLEX-DIRECTN:LUMN;GAP:6PX;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;MAX-HEIGHT:104PX;WIDTH:100%;LE-HEIGHT:24PX;PADDG:16PX;BOX-SHADOW:0 2PX 4PX 0 RGBA(0,0,0,0.18);} A{LOR:#354A4E;TEXT-OVERFLOW:ELLIPSIS;WHE-SPACE:PRE-LE;-WEBK-BOX-ORIENT:VERTIL;-WEBK-LE-CLAMP:3;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;OVERFLOW:HIDN;} A:HOVER{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;}{FONT:NORMAL 400 1.6REM/1.5 "D REGULAR",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;MAX-HEIGHT:104PX;WIDTH:100%;LE-HEIGHT:24PX;PADDG:16PX;BOX-SHADOW:0 2PX 4PX 0 RGBA(0,0,0,0.18);} A{LOR:#354A4E;TEXT-OVERFLOW:ELLIPSIS;WHE-SPACE:PRE-LE;-WEBK-BOX-ORIENT:VERTIL;-WEBK-LE-CLAMP:3;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;OVERFLOW:HIDN;} A:HOVER{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;}ERIC CERVI'S NEW BOOK IS A TOAST TO QUEER BARS THROUGHOUT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}LGBTQ HISTORY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Pavg the way for Pop, Rschenberg’s work might not openly reference his sexualy like some other artists’, but cric Robert Hugh lled Monogram “one of the few great ins of male homosexual love morn culture.

A sculpture pictg the gay Athenian warrr lovers was the very first upright statue set up a cy plaza and the first statue that paid tribute public to mortal hero rather than god-like or dive hero. By the end of the 20th century, the word gay was remend by major LGBT groups and style guis to scribe people attracted to members of the same sex, although is more monly ed to refer specifilly to men. He was also a victim of mid-20th Century attus to homosexualy and 1952 he was arrted bee beg homosexual was illegal Bra at this time.

“The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I uldn’t be any more happy, fortable wh myself, and proud, ” he said at the time. In 1964 Allan Horsfall and a group of iends set up the North Wt Homosexual Law Reform Commtee, even givg out his home addrs as the base for the anizatn. It beme the first mpaigng anizatn outsi of London set up and n by gay men, and s work directly led to homosexualy no longer beg illegal.

FAMO GAY PEOPLE

Later the North Wt Commtee was transformed to the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly (CHE), which was the largt LGBT anizatn there has ever been the UK, wh more than 5, 000 members and 120 lol groups all over the untry when was at s biggt. Goronwy was scribed as the “most perceptive member of the mtee”, and the one who succsfully argued that the mtee should take evince directly om homosexual men. Mark Ashton was an Irish gay rights activist who -found the Lbians and Gays Support the Mers Movement wh close iend Mike Jackson.

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