Wele to Out’s annual list of the 50 most powerful and fluential LGBT people the world. The are the famo gay men and women whose work and activism are stmental fluencg how we thk about and engage wh the world.
Contents:
- IN POWERFUL REBE OF HATE, JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY G OUT AS GAY
- 15 OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY PEOPLE OF ALL TIME
IN POWERFUL REBE OF HATE, JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY G OUT AS GAY
It is 2016 and boy have thgs changed for the LGBT muny a posive way. It is time to wave our rabow flags proudly as we exame major fluential and spiratnal gay people over time. Ma * influential gay figures *
Homosexual acts are illegal Malaysia and punishable by f and up to 20 years prison. You are young people, and I’m sure a lot of you are gay and progrsive, ” he said addrsg the dience.
Whether or not some of the people were publicly regnized as gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, or "queer" any sense of the word vari pendg on the person and their history.
While some theorize Newton was a reprsed gay man, others believe he was stead asexual. Dpe his service, however, Turg was prosecuted by his ernment for beg a homosexual relatnship. Bayard Rt bravely walked the dangero world of social and polil movements the '40s as an openly gay Black man fightg for both Black and LGBTQ+ rights durg a time when was practilly illegal to be eher Ameri.
15 OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL GAY PEOPLE OF ALL TIME
Baldw's wrten works addrsed sexualy, race, and class, brgg light to issu that both Black Amerins and gay Amerins faced durg his lifetime. As a rult, Baldw and his work are scribed as tersectnal, providg a perspective rmed by both racism and homophobia that gay Black Amerins would experience. " Dpe this, Vidal didn't necsarily believe "gay" as a label.
Warhol lived his life as a gay man, sometim relayg his sexualy through drawgs of nu men; much of his work n be found mms around the world today. Nicknamed the "Mayor of Castro Street, " Harvey Milk was an openly gay polician San Francis noted for his energy and charisma.
While he ially lost an electn for the San Francis Board of Supervisors, Milk would ntue to serve his lol gay muny through other means, foundg the San Francis Gay Democratic Club and eventually wng a seat on the Board of Supervisors. While Hollywood heartthrob Tab Hunter had a reer begng back the 1950s, wasn't until 2005 when the "Damn Yanke" star publicly me out as gay. Que possibly the most proment player the gay liberatn movement of the 1960s and 1970s was Marsha P.