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Cecil Rhodes
Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) was an English-born South African who was a co-founder of the De Beers diamond company as well as the honored namesake of the southern African country of Rhodesia (today’s...
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Richard Halliburton
Renowned thrill-seeker and global adventure writer Richard Halliburton (1900-1939) went rogue in his private, as well as professional life. Richard’s partner was his ghostwriter, Paul Mooney...
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Yul Brynner
This is an update of a controversial post from 2012. Be sure to read the shit storm of four dozen reader comments at the end.Bisexual Russian-born actor Yul Brynner (1920-1985) began his career playing...
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Gifford Joins Biden Reelection Campaign
UPDATE:Rufus Gifford, the highest-ranking "openly gay" official at the U.S. State Department, is leaving his post as chief of protocol to become finance chair for President Joe Biden’s reelection...
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Edgars Rinkēvičs, President of Latvia
Rinkēvičs Sworn In as President of LatviaThis July (2023) 49-year-old Edgars Rinkēvičs took office as President of Latvia, becoming the first openly gay head of state in a European Union country. He...
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Alexander Hamilton
Updatedto include reference to Hamilton in the book and movie "Red, White and Royal Blue"(see end of post).Alexander Hamilton was a United States Founding Father, soldier, economist, political...
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Leonard Bernstein
*UPDATED January 7, 2024 to include mention of the 2023 bio-film MAESTRO. a gay man who dabbled in the straight worldBernstein photographed in 1988 at home in Connecticut.Leonard Bernstein* (1918-1990)...
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Couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga
UPDATED POST: Your blogger first learned of CristóbalBalenciaga (1895-1972) from a pamphlet at the San Sebastian (Spain) tourist office. In a list of famous people who had made San Sebastian their...
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Matt Dallas
Whatever happened to Matt Dallas?For starters, he’s starring in Shoulder Dance (2023), an LGBTQ comedy / drama / romance movie, and has a smaller role in another film, Every Breath She Takes (2023...
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin
(Updated since the original 2021 post) A native of Montreal, Canada, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Yah-NEEK neh-ZAY Say-GAN, b. 1975, 48 years old) was the conducting coach for Bradley Cooper, who portrayed...
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Marlon Brando
Hollywood’s Rogue BisexualUPDATED POSTING: I have revised this post with information from more recent sources. So many readers have questioned the veracity of facts presented below that I have moved my...
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UPDATED POST: Mr. Wahls (b. 1991) has achieved significant success since this original posting on 12/30/2011. A 2012 quote from Mr. Wahls: To be clear, I don't consider myself an ally. I might be a...
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Federico García Lorca
Lorca was an avante-garde homosexual Spanish poet and playwright who had a serious and scandalous affair with Salvador Dalí. Lorca, born near Granada, was considered the greatest Spanish poet of the...
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Felix Felixovich Yusupov
At age 16 Prince Felix posed for the painter Valentin Serov in 1903. That portrait, above, is now on display at the St. Petersburg Museum. Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov (1887-1967) was an immensely...
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Chad Griffin
Chad Griffin was president (2012-2019) of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization.Since joining HRC as...
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Rex
UPDATE: Rex died in late March, 2024, in Amsterdam.When the artist known as Rex began working in New York City in the mid 1960s, his erotic pointillist style drawings gained immediate notoriety. At the...
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Steven Saylor (Aaron Travis)
Steven Saylor (b. 1956, photo above) is a Texas-born gay author of popular historical novels about ancient Rome. He studied history and classics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he graduated...
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Prince Constantin Radziwill
Prince Constantin Radziwill (1850-1920) was born to an aristocratic Polish family. He had numerous royal titles and bloodlines as well as lots of prime European real estate, but not much cash....
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Carl Hester to compete in 7th Olympic Games
Dressage master Carl Hester is headed to his SEVENTH Olympics competition in Paris later this month. As such, he will be among the oldest athletes competing (Hester turned 57 a few days ago). When he...
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Billy Bean
Gay Major League Baseball PlayerUPDATE: Billy Bean succumbed to leukemia on August 6, 2024 at age 60.Original post from August, 2011: Forty-six year old Billy Bean was a high-scoring outfielder in a...
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King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886)
Paul von Thurn und Taxis, a Bavarian prince, kept a diary, but like everything else concerning him in the Regensburg archives of the powerful and wealthy Thurn und Taxis family, it was destroyed. Aside...
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Marcel Proust
French writer Marcel Proust was a novelist, literary critic and essayist who was known primarily as the author of the monumental novel “À la recherche du temps perdu” (“Remembrance of Things Past” or...
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Gabriel Attal
Photo by Antoine Lamielle, 2017Born in 1989, openly gay Attal (age 35) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from January to September, 2024. As a member of the Renaissance...
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Karol Szymanowski
Celebrated Polish pianist and composer Karol Szymanowski was born in 1882 in a small village in Ukraine into a Catholic family of wealthy Polish nobles. His compositional style progressed from...
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Richard Chamberlain
Note: this is a much updated version of my post from 2013.UPDATE: Richard Chamberlain died at age 90 in Hawaii on March 29, 2025, from complications of a stroke. Deeply closeted for most of his life,...
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