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- 30 FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
- HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERALWAR IS BORG·FOLLOWPUBLISHED WAR IS BORG·8 M READ·MAR 9, 2014--1LISTENSHARENO, NOT ALEXANR THE GREAT—FRERICK THE GREAT
- FAMO GAY PEOPLE
- LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
30 FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
This Pri Month, celebrate the famo people who have played a major role the Gay Rights Movement over the years. * famous gay geniuses *
Although historians pot out ad nseam the so-lled appropriatens of applyg morn nstcts such as "gay, " "bisexual, " "homosexual, " or "queer" to an ancient kg like Alexanr, no ser historian doubts that history's penultimate warrr-monarch was attracted to men. Frd somehow duced hundreds of years after Leonardo's ath that the artist was homosexual, but (ahem) celibate.
Hodg wr that Alan Turg was the "founr of puter science, mathematician, philosopher, breaker, strange visnary and a gay man before his time. By enablg Brish telligence to Enigma msag, Alan Turg also enabled the Alli to feat the Adolf Hler World War, the Brish ernment "thanked" Turg for his wartime efforts by arrtg him 1952 for the "crime" of homosexualy. Soon after beg chemilly strated by orr of a Brish urt as punishment for beg gay, Turg died by suici, gtg cyani, addn to ventg morn putg, Turg also nceptualizied and created a scientific tt for nfirmg artificial telligence.
HISTORY’S GREATT GAY GENERALWAR IS BORG·FOLLOWPUBLISHED WAR IS BORG·8 M READ·MAR 9, 2014--1LISTENSHARENO, NOT ALEXANR THE GREAT—FRERICK THE GREAT
Fascatg stori about the most famo gay people the world. From Michelangelo to Ellen DeGener, Out celebrat the liv of notable LGBT figur. * famous gay geniuses *
The Universy of Illois at Sprgfield's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Qutng, and Allied Rource Office offers a tratg, however technilly accurate, asssment of the sexual ambiguy of the legendary sculptor and pater of the ceilg at the Siste Chapel Rome.
Pietro Areto’s suggtns of perasty), there is no clear evince of Michelangelo’s homosexualy or, at least, none ditg overt sexual activy, " reads an entry at the universy's webse.
Gtgs is creded wh leadg the succsful movement to change the psychiatric and psychologil profsns' view of homosexualy as a mental pathology. But that had more to do wh her very private nature, acrdg to her sister, Bear Ri, than did wh a lack of pri beg gay.
FAMO GAY PEOPLE
Beg one of the natn's first openly gay elected officials, Milk was the standard-bearer of what durg his time was lled the gay liberatn movement. Before he was assassated 1978, along wh San Francis Mayor Gee Masne, Milk helped stave off a nservative backlash agast LGBT equaly the form of the so-lled Briggs Iniative, which would have barred gay people om teachg California's public was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1977.
Sce Milk's victory, hundreds of LGBT ndidat have been elected across the were a few out gay and lbian ndidat elected before Milk, cludg Elae Noble to the Massachetts Hoe of Reprentativ and Kathy Kozachenko to the Ann Arbor, Mich., Cy Council, both 1974. For weeks 1997, Ameri wonred and ABC's publicy partment fueled speculatn about whether or not DeGener's character would follow the lead of the real-life lbian who played her by g wh clever humor cludg a gag about receivg a ee kchen appliance for exg the closet (an obv reference to the age-old homophobic notn that the LGBT muny "recs" members), the wily viewed g-out episo of Ellen ma televisn history — and ma a lghg natn measurably more fortable wh and acceptg of gay people general.
As a member of the Massachetts Hoe of Reprentativ, the first bill he troduced, 1973, was to ban antigay discrimatn hog, employment, and public acmodatns. Famo for his quote about the need for uny among mory muni, transplanted Br Harry Hay found the Mattache Society 1950, one of the morn world's first anizatns for gay men. Ironilly, the Amerin Communist Party kicked him out bee believed his homosexualy ma him a "secury risk.
LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
" After more than a away om activism, Hay returned to his work fightg for LGBT equaly by foundg the Los Angel chapter of the Gay Liberatn Front. Dpe his personal undog followg his arrt, nvictn, and sentence of two years hard labor for the "crime" of homosexualy (technilly, "gross cency"), the wrer of classics such a The Importance of Beg Earnt and The Picture of Dorian Gray remas one of the wrten word's most famo and celebrated artists. I wanted to wre an article celebratg the works of the most fluential gay, lbian, transgenr and bisexual novators, ventors and scientists throughout history.
However, there was a are jt not many lists of famo homosexuals the homosexualy has often been associated wh the arts and creativy, has never been as openly accepted wh the scientific muny. Ined, beg a homosexual was a crimal offense many untri until recently (and many untri, ntu to be today), which will have prevented many historil figur om g out of the closet.
In the UK, before 1967 (jt over 50 years ago) homosexualy ed to be punishable by sentenc as harsh as life imprisonment.