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Jake Daniels
At age 17, British soccer player Jake Daniels came out as gay (May 2022), becoming the UK's only male professional footballer to be publicly out at the time. He was praised by Prince William, who was...
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UPDATE: Tim Cook Steps Down as Apple CEO
My original post was 15 years ago (2011), when it was announced that Tim Cook, a gay man, had been named CEO of Apple. That original post follows this update. On Monday, August 31, 2026, Tim Cook...
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U.S. Congressman Barney Frank
UPDATE: Congressman Frank died May 19, 2026, at age 86. Original post follows.Barney Frank is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Massachusetts) and is the most prominent gay politician in...
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Orlando Cruz
Update to original post:When Orlando Cruz retired from boxing in 2018, the World Boxing Organization (WBO) ranked him at #4 among featherweights. Also mentioned in this post is Robbie Rogers (soccer),...
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Roberto Velasco
Mexico installs openly gay Secretary of State The Mexican Senate confirmed President Claudia Sheinbaum’s nomination of Roberto Velasco Álvarez (b. 1987) as the new Secretary of Foreign Affairs,...
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Alan Turing
British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) masterminded cracking the German Enigma code during WW II, thus helping to shorten the war. He is also considered the father of computer science and the...
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Gary Cooper
Bisexual American Screen Idol1901-1961For three years during the late 1920s über-rich Howard Hughes maintained a sexual relationship with a young, unknown but upcoming actor named Gary Cooper, buying...
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Frederick the Great (1712-1786)
Frederick II (in German: Friedrich II), the Hohenzollern King of Prussia, went on to become known as Frederick the Great (Friedrich der Große). His governess and mother spoke French around him, and...
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David Hockney
British painter, photographer, set designerBritish-born, longtime Los Angeles resident David Hockney (b. 1937) is a gay artist who has worked in several genres. He is a painter, photographer, set...
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Baron von Steuben
(Update at end of post) I’ve written about gay king Frederick the Great of Prussia. However, I just learned that a former aide of his had to flee Prussia amid allegations of taking familiarities with...
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Prince Henry of Prussia
A little-known fact of American history is that there had been a real possibility that our fledgling nation's first leader could have been a gay Prussian royal from the House of...
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Titanic Memorial: A Tribute to "Friendship"
Just a few yards from the White House south lawn sits a little-known monument related to the ill-fated passenger ship Titanic, which struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage on April 15, 1912. Described...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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