Coming out is almost a common occurrence these days, but some of these folks might surprise you.
Achtenberg, Roberta, politician
Albee, Edward, playwright
Alexander, the Great, military conqueror
Alger, Jr, Horatio, writer
Almodovar, Pedro, film director
Alyson, Sasha, publisher
Andersen, Hans Christian, children's story writer
Anderson, Mitchell, actor (Party of Five)
Auden, W. H., writer
Bacon, Sir Francis, philosopher/statesman
Baez, Joan, musician
Baker, Josephine, singer
Baldwin, James, novelist
Batts, Deborah, federal judge
Bearse, Amanda, actor (Married With Children)
Bell, Andy, musician
Benedict, Ruth, anthropologist
Bennett, Michael, choreographer
Bernhardt, Sandra, comic/actor
(Rosanne) Bernstein, Leonard, composer and conductor
Berry, Sir James, author of Peter Pan
Bowie, David, musician
Boyd, Rev. Malcolm, Episcopal priest
Boykin, Keith, President Clinton aide
Britten, Benjamin, composer
Brown, Margaret Wise, author of children's books
Burke, Glenn, Brooklyn Dodger, 1972-77
Butler, Dan, actor (Frazier)
Buttino, Frank, former FBI agent
Byron, Lord, poet
Caesar, Julius, statesman/general/emperor
Cammermeyer, Margarethe, National Guard colonel
Caravaggio, Renaissance artist
Cather, Willa, novelist
Cheever, John, writer
Clairborne, Craig, American chef
Cocteau, Jean, novelist/playwright/poet
Colette, writer
Copeland, Aaron, composer
Coward, Noel, playwright/actor/composer
Cukor, George, film director
da Vinci, Leonardo, artist
de Stael, Madame, writer
Dean, James, actor
Degeneres, Ellen, actress
Deitrich, Marlene, actor
Delaria, Lea, comic
Dickinson, Emily, poet
Eliot, T. S., American author/poet
Epstein, Brian, manager of the Beatles
Etheridge, Melissa, singer & composer Fierstein, Harvey, playwright/actor Flynn,
Erroll, actor
Forbes, Malcolm, publisher
Forster, E. M., novelist
Frank, Barney, Congressman
Geffen, David, music producer
Gielgud, Sir John, actor
Gill, Tim, founder of Quark, Inc
Gingrich, Candace, political activist
Ginsberg, Allen, poet
Great, Frederick the, emperor
Hamilton, Alexander, statesman
Hammarskjöld, Dag, UN Secretary General
Hansberry, Lorraine, playwright
Harte, Bret, author
Hatch, Richard, Survivor survivor
Hayes, Bruce, Olympic swimmer
Hoover, J. Edgar, FBI director
Horse, Chief Crazy, Native American leader
Hudson, Rock, actor
Ian, Janis, musician
Indigo Girls, musicians
Jackson-Paris, Bob, pro bodybuilder
James I, King, Bible overseer
James, Henry, writer
John, Elton, musician
Julius III, Pope
Kahlo, Frieda, artist
Keynes, John Maynard, economist & author
Kopay, David, pro football player
Kuehl, Sheila James, attorney/former TV actor
Kushner, Tony, playwright
lang, k d, musician
Lawrence, T. E., writer & adventurer
LeVay, Simon, biologist
Lorca, Garcia, poet
Louganis, Greg, Olympic gold medalist
Lowell, Amy, poet & critic
Marlowe, Christopher, dramatist & poet
Maugham, W. Somerset, writer McKlellen, Ian, actor
McKuen, Rod, poet
McNeill, John, religious scholar
Meinhold, Keith, Retired Navy officer
Melville, Herman, novelist & poet
Michelangelo, artist
Milk, Harvey, American politician
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, poet
Millet, Kate, American author
Mishima, Yukio, novelist
Navratilova, Martina, tennis champion
Nightingale, Florence, "founder" of modern nursing
O'Keefe, Georgia, artist
Olivier, Sir Lawrence, actor
Pallone, Dave, former baseball umpire
Phranc, folksinger
Plato, philosopher
Porter, Cole, singer
Price, Deb, newspaper columnist
Proust, Marcel, novelist
Raphael, Renaissance painter
Renault, Mary, French writer
Riley, James Whitcomb, "The Hoosier poet"
Roosevelt, Eleanor, Stateswoman
Roth, Lynda, musician/composer
RuPaul, supermodel
Rustin, Bayard, civil rights activist
Sappho, poet
Sargent, Dick, actor
Sarton, May, poet & writer
Schubert, Franz, composer
Smith, Bessie, singer
Spencer-Devin, Muffin, golfer
Steffan, Joe, much decorated Navy cadet
Stein, Gertrude, writer
Studds, Gerry, Congressman
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich, composer
Thompson, Dorothy, journalist
Thompson, Scott, actor (Larry Sanders Show)
Toklas, Alice B., writer
Tomlin, Lily, comic, actor Valentino,
Rudolf, actor
Vidal, Gore, writer
Waddell, Tom, Olympic decathelete
Warhol, Andy, artist
Whitman, Walt, poet
Wilde, Oscar, poet, novelist & dramatist
Wilder, Thornton, playwright
Williams, Tennessee, playwright
Wong, B. D., actor
Woolf, Virginia, novelist & critic
Wu, Chinese emperor
Zaharias, Babe Didrikson, pro golfer
Zuniga, Joe, former Army sergeant
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