INFLUENTIAL

GREATEST OF THE GREAT



  1. A pupil of Aristotle and also a powerful ruler and warrior was actually the first queer hero.
  2. She, the Queen of Egypt, was referred to as ‘transgender’. She showed her ‘kingship’ by wear the garb of a male monarch and a false beard.
  3. The acknowledgment of his sexuality of being gay was universal. Some say that the ‘Mona Lisa’ was actually a rendition of him and his lover.
  4. A famous sculptor of monumental males nudes, such as David, the Creation of Adam and the other decorative nudes on the Sistine ceiling gave a clear indication to where his interests lay.
  5. She took a life threatening risk by posing as a man in order to fight for the American Independence during the revolutionary War.
  6. He was an Irish playwright, author and lecturer who was frequently compared to the likes of Winston Churchill. He was a homosexual who wrote the classics such as The Importance of Being Earnest.
  7. He is a British mathematician and scientist. He broke the code for the Nazi Enigma machine which aided the and enabled the allies to defeat Adolf Hitler.
  8. He was the chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King delivered his dgroundbreaking "I Have a Dream" speech.
  9. He found the Mattachine Society which was the modern world’s first organization for gay men.
  10. He was born to English nobility and the world’s first transgender man to undergo operation and gender affirmation surgery.
  11. He was in fact gay and described as the 20th century Van Gogh. He’s an influences and his insights on race and sexuality.
  12. The New York Daily News headline announced her as the first ‘out’ transgender woman.
  13. He fought for change from with the American political system as he was one of the nation’s first openly gay official. He was involved into the gay liberation movement as well as fighting for the rights.
  14. She lead a very successful movement to change the psychiatric and psychological professions’ view of homosexuality as a mental illness.
  15. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and a fighter for LGBT rights. He introduced his first bill in 1973 which was to ban antigay discrimination.
  16. He is the father of modern queer religiosity and oranized spirituality and he also founded the controversial Metropolitan Community Church.
  17. She was America’s first female astronaut and a space shuttle robotic arm operator. She came out as a lesbian but was very private about.
  18. The world’s most lovable lesbian, actor, producer, talk-show host and comedian. She has made the nation more comfortable and accepting of the LGBT culture.
  19. She was the first out member of the LGBT community (a lesbian) to be elected to a U.S senate as well as a vocal advocate for gun control.
  20. They both came out as transgender and are also Hollywood’s elite moviemakers that are also great in directing, writing and production credits.


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