Gay and Lesbian History Month

It's that time of year! No, not Halloween, although it's getting closer; rather, October is Gay and Lesbian History Month. From people who have researched this topic, here are some famous people who were gay:

• Alexander the Great
• Plato
• Sappho
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Desiderius Erasmus
• Michelangelo
• Francis Bacon
• Christopher Marlowe
• Frederick the Great
• Lord Byron
• Herman Melville
• Walt Whitman
• Horatio Alger, Jr.
• Oscar Wilde
• Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Marcel Proust
• Willa Cather
• Gertrude Stein
• E. M. Forster
• Virginia Woolf
• John Maynard Keynes
• T. E. Lawrence
• Jean Cocteau
• Bessie Smith
• Charles Laughton
• Noel Coward
• Tennessee Williams
• Alan Turing
• James Baldwin
• Andy Warhol

I confess, I had to look up some of these names to find out what made them famous. :-)