Who is your most favourite famous/well known gay?

So ahead of his time

[quote]Don't be scared of naming someone who the DL doesn't like.

That would be all of them.

Jean Sablon.

I am gay but I can't think of one, but then I can't think of anyone famous who is straight I am that fond of either. People are people.

Tom Cruise!

Erna

Stinkfish

Bradley Cooper

Mike Pence

George Michael, Ben Whishaw, Adam Lambert, Kristen Stewart

Freddie Mercury.

Liberace

Matt Bomer

Tesla and Martina Navratilova

Currently, Antoni.

Tesla Navratil

and Jonnie

I ❤ all the youtube celebrities and instagram whores that people on here think are so fascinating!

This thread should be at 100 by now. Shame on DL!

Julian Morris, Ben Whishaw, Jonny Bailey, and NEIL PATRICK HARRIS.

Gore Vidal

Paul Lynde

Freddie Mercury and George michael

Truman Capote and Ian McKellen

Pee-wee Herman

Bayard Rustin.

And Mike Pence's nephew.

Aaron Shoque

Ben Whishaw -- he seems like a nice boring chap and he's seriously talented

Rosie O'Donnell. Yeah she's nutty, but I have a soft spot for her.

John Waters.

Oscar Wilde is corny?

Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) , a gay rights pioneer, ought to be more famous.

Plato

R26 -

I've never understood why Paul "Pee-wee Herman" Reubens has never come out publicly.

He's 66 and has admitted that he collects vintage male erotica after an arrest in 2004.

Jonathan Groff, Matt Bomer, Evan Todd

Capucine and Gia Carrangi.

Ricky Martin

Bagoas.

Pete and Chasten

R37 at the same time?

Frankie Nardiello.

Serge. Not Bruno, Bruno is not sexy.

The singer from REM

Several of these people aren’t gay. They are bisexual

Peter Berlin.

Elton John. Yes I know he can be a complete cunt but you can't deny his talent or contributions to music.

Ian McKellen because he just doesn't give a fuck what you think.

Sviatoslav Richter

Julian Morris, Ben Whishaw, Jonny Bailey, and NEIL PATRICK HARRIS.

Rachel Maddow

I like James Dean and Sal Mineo

Alan Turing

Oscar Wilde. His signature is the only tattoo I have and ever will have.

Dag Hammerskjold

Remember when Ellen was everyone's first choice...

"Most favourite" = Oh, dear.

Patrick White. Wrote a number of lengthy bitter hissing eldergay novels full of good one-liners that didn't sell much but he was living off an inheritance anyway. Grumpy old man! 😂

Troy Aikman

Her Majesty

Elton John owns this thread. But I did enjoy seeing Troy Aikman’s name mentioned

Rock Hudson

Raymond Burr

So many - Patrick Dennis (Edward Tanner), Tchaikowsky, James Baldwin, Maurice Ravel, Francis Poulenc, Andrew Holleran, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Nijinsky, Nureyev, Paul Taylor, Ned Rorem, Sviatoslav Richter, Edmund White, Harvey Milk. Walt Whitman, Paul Lynde, Raymund Burr, Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Caravaggio, Plato....and yes, Oscar Wilde - anyone from history who created art, music, literature, or was a great dancer or performer and who survived societies which exacted great hardships on people who didn't conform to societal norms.

Rosie

Probably should have included Alan Turing for his contribution as a gay scientist/mathematician. E M Forster, WH Auden, Christopher Isherwood.

Jean Genet

Tennessee Williams Truman Capote

Oliver Sacks, Stephen Sondheim, Francis Bacon.

Jonathan Groff Dirk Bogarde

Troye Sivan

Alice Austen

Leonardo da Vinci for art, E M Foster for literature, Tchaikovsky for music, Nureyev for ballet and Visconti for cinema.

Ricky Martin

Turing

Pete

NPH

Tab Hunter was always my role model. Grew up in a time not so great for gays and still seemed happy and healthy all the way til the end. The single best looking male possibly ever born too.

Seeing a picture of Oscar Wilde with Bosie when I was in the sixth grade changed my sense of what was possible in the world. I don't care if it's corny.

He's not really famous as such, but Tasmanian gay rights activist Rodney Croome is someone I have always looked up to. He helped turn the most backward and homophobic state of Australia into having some of the most progressive pro gay laws in the country. Tasmania was once a place gay people fled from and now it's a place where many of us flock to for holidays, sea change and retirement. Rodney Croome is a hero to me. Much respect also goes to former Justice of the High Court of Australia Michael Kirby.

So very many, but I'll add Anderson Cooper, perhaps the most prominent out news person.

Leonardo da Vinci and Alan Turing. Both had a profoundly positive impact on the world.

George Takai

And thank you, R25

Monty Clift

Tony Perkins

Roddy McDowell

Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Willa Cather

Hands down Edward Carpenter!

Jeffrey Dahmer, say what you will but he was a babe.

R85 he killed black and gaysian bottoms.

Monty

Roy Stuart (Corporal Boyle on Gomer Pyle, USMC).

R86 He was a cutie and he had a nice body.

R62 was Raymond Burr actually gay? I've heard the rumours several times over but haven't seen anything tangible. Anyone got anything real on him?

Roddy McDowall was pretty fine when he was younger. A little scrawny here but he did plump out as he got older.

Monty was adorable before he went bonkers on the booze and pills

R90, there was a big legal dispute over Burr's estate when he died because he left everything to his partner and his relatives wanted to take all of the property and such away from Burr's partner.

Hadrian, emperor of Rome at the peak of her emoire.

Not afraid to openly have a constant male companion, Antinous.

And not afraid to publicly grieve for him after his death.

*empire. Yikes!

Another vote for Oliver Sacks (with a shout out to Bill Hayes, his partner and author of Insomniac City)

Freddie Mercury and George Michael

Surely someone's already said Boy George?

Chip and Dale.

John Waters

I'm also a George Takei fan.

Troy Sivan, Brandon Flynn, Miles McMillan, Stella Maxwell

Karl Lagerfeld, Valentino Garavani

Louisa May Alcott.

[italic]"I am more than half-persuaded that I am a man's soul put by some freak of nature into a woman's body. … because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.”

Oprah

I loathe coffee but for George Nader I'd drink it by the bucket loads every morning!

Look at that bulge! This man was blessed!

Eleanor Roosevelt

Joan Crawford, the biggest dyke of all.

John Waters George Michael Dusty Springfield Rachel Maddow Rosie O'Donnell Sylvester Edith Windsor Marsha P Johnson Nancy Kulp Jobriath (aka Cole Berlin, aka Bruce Wayne Campbell)

Historian and author, Yuval Noah Harari

Langston Hughes and Frank Ocean

Marlene Dietrich. But I suppose she was bi. So Leonardo Da Vinci

[quote]Not afraid to openly have a constant male companion, Antinous

Nobody was afraid of that back in those days. Other emperors also had long-term male concubines - Domitian had Earinos, Nero and Otho both had Sporus. This was common in less aristocratic households as well.

Owen Jones.

Alexander the Great

I like Trajan, the greatest of the Caesars according to the Roman Senate. Hadrian and Antinous, too.

I like Frederick the Great for a more modern reference of gay military genius, and also for his intellect, taste, and contempt for religion.

I like Glenn Greenwald. He's a bit of foot-in-mouth case but I share his politics and consider him a model of bravery. He never shies away from facing the powerful, no matter if it is serious bureaucrats like Obama or dictatorial crazy scum like Bolsonaro.

And on a less high minded note: I like my 7th English teacher who had the most beautiful ass a human being has ever possessed. Even though I'm probably more of a bottom personality-wise he's engendered in me a life long love for the male derrière. I search in vain for men with his body.

Stephen Sondheim.

[quote]most favourite

Oh, most dearest dear.

armie hammer

……….mr Terry Miller.

Joao from Below Deck Mediterranean

Andy Cohen - sexiest man ever

George Cukor

Marcel Proust

Cole Porter

Someone who made a lasting impression on me when I read about him as a youth was an ancient Greek guy called Menestratos. The only reason we know of him is the travelogue writer Pausanias.

[bold]Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 26. 7 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :[/bold] [italic]"In Thespiai (Thespiae) [in Boiotia] is a bronze image of Zeus Soter (Saviour). They say about it that when a Drakon (Dragon-Serpent) was devastating their city, the god commended that every year one of their youths, upon whom the lot fell, should be offered to the monster. Now the names of those who perished they say that they do not remember. But when the lot fell on Kleostratos (Cleostratus), his lover Menestratos (Menestratus), they say, devised a trick. He had made a bronze breastplate with a fish-hook, the point turned outward upon each of its plates. Clad in this breastplate he gave himself up, of his own free will, to the Drakon, convinced that having done so he would, though destroyed himself, proved the destroyer of the monster. This is why the Zeus has been surnamed Saviour."[/italic]

I don't know why but the self-sacrifice for his male lover touched me back then and still does, probably because it was the first time that I read an account where a male gay love story was admired and celebrated.

Pier Paolo Pasolini, John Cage, Francis Bacon, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, William Basinski

Peter Christopherson and John Balance of Coil

Daffyd Thomas of course.

Tab Hunter was always a hero. I love that he grew up in very oppressive times but wasn't a mess, no drug abuse or suicide attempts, just a great looking guy who loved his horses and left behind some cool work. And he was a nice happy guy in person too.

DIVINE💋💋💋💋👄👄👄

And what a brave queen she was.

I thought I was still in the Erna thread and r131 was talking about Laurent.

Baron T.

A toss up between RuPaul and George Takei.

(Oh, my!)

Martina Navratilová

Tennessee Williams

anyone except that titty dragging cunt suckin Tituss Burgesssssss

Mizz Andy Cohen, of course.

Langston Hughes, Walt Whitman, Tennessee Williams, Elton John, Rosie O’Donnell, Amy Ray, Harvey Milk, Neil Patrick Harris, and lately, Pete and Chasten

Teller. I recently rediscovered Penn and Teller. They are both nice, classy people (Penn's a raging hetero so whatever).

Teller has no conventional attractiveness but he is so graceful, kind, intellectual and quite funny. He talks and he listens.

Teller is gay?

Jessica tandy.

Charles Nelson Reilly. I would say Roddy McDowell but he wasn’t on my tv 5 days a week.

Bea Arthur

Pete and Chasten too. They are so normal.

r141 Yes honey, I'm gay!

R141 but really, here's Teller with his partner Gene (in the blue cowboy hat). A DL thread about Penn & Teller said they have been together a long time.

Writer, Author Donald Windham and his longtime companion former stage actor Sandy Campbell.