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Edward Albee
Playwright/Director
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John Ashbery
Poet
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James Baldwin
Author
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Tallulah Bankhead
Actor
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Djuna Barnes
Author
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Artist
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Deborah Batts
First Out Federal Judge
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Ruth Berman & Connie Kurtz
Employee Benefits Plaintiffs
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Leonard Bernstein
Composer
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Mark Bingham
9/11 hero 
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Sue Bird
WNBA Superstar
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Charles Blow
Journalist and Commentator
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Mary Bonauto
Lawyer
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Ivy Bottini
Women’s and LGBT Activist
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Keith Boykin
Commentator
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Frank Bruni
New York Times Columnist
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John Cage
Composer
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Michael Callen
AIDS Activist
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Mandy Carter
Activist
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Willa Cather
Author
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Tseng Kwong Chi
Photographer
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Lou Chibbaro Jr.
Journalist & Radio Host
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Staceyann Chin
Poet/Performer
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Dan Choi
Activist/Educator
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Kate Clinton
Comedian, Actor
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Lynn Conway
Computer Pioneer
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Anderson Cooper
Journalist
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Aaron Copland
Composer
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Ramon Cortines
Educator
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Midge Costanza
Presidential Adviser
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Alan Cumming
Actor
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Madeline Davis
LGBT Activist & Historian
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Elsie de Wolfe
Interior Designer
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Samuel Delany
Author
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Stormé DeLarverie
Stonewall Activist
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Martin Duberman
Historian
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Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Author & Activist
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George Eastman
Entrepreneur
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Lillian Faderman
LGBT Historian
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Leslie Feinberg
Author/Activist
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Harvey Fierstein
Actor, playwright and screenwriter
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Lady Gaga
Singer/Songwriter  
2011 Icon
David Geffen
Media Mogul
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Henry Gerber
Activist/Educator
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Allen Ginsberg
Poet and activist
2008 Icon
Barbara Gittings
Gay Pioneer
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Mary Douglas Glasspool
Episcopal Bishop
2017 Icon
Ron Gold
Gay Pioneer
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Cary Grant
Actor
2007 Icon
Glenn Greenwald
Journalist
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Angelina Weld Grimké
Poet and Playwright
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Lorraine Hansberry
Playwright and Activist
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Keith Haring
Artist
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Neil Patrick Harris
Actor
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Emery Hetrick & Damien Martin
Educators
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Billie Holiday
Singer
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Brenda Howard
Activist
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Langston Hughes
Poet
2011 Icon
Kevin Jennings
Activist/Educator
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Philip Johnson
Architect
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Mondaire Jones
First Out Black Congressman
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Bill T. Jones
Dancer and choreographer
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Cherry Jones
Actor and filmmaker
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June Jordan
Poet
2014 Icon
Christine Jorgensen
Transgender Pioneer
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Father Mychal Judge
Hero
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Moisés Kaufman
Award-Winning Theater Director
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Frances Kellor
Social Activist
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Victoria Kolakowski
Judge
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Tony Kushner
Playwright
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Stephen Lachs
World’s First Out Judge
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Nathan Lane
Actor
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Arthur Laurents
Playwright/Director
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Annie Leibovitz
Photographer
2007 Icon
Audre Lorde
Author
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Greg Louganis
Olympic gold medalist
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Nancy Mahon
Philanthropy Advocate
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Barry Manilow
Singer and Songwriter
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Irshad Manji
Muslim Reformist
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Robert Mapplethorpe
Photographer
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Ricky Martin
Singer/Songwriter  
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John McNeill
Theologian
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Margaret Mead
Anthropologist and author 
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Marijane Meaker
Pulp Fiction Pioneer
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John Cameron Mitchell
Actor and Director
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Joan Nestle
Historian
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Jack Nichols
Gay Pioneer          
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Cynthia Nixon
Actor
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Bruce Nugent
Author
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J. Paul Oetken
First Out Male Federal Judge
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Todd Oldham
Designer
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Suze Orman
Financial Expert
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Antonia Pantoja
Educator and Activist
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Christine Quinn
New York City Council Speaker    
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Robert Rauschenberg
Artist, filmmaker and publisher
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Adrienne Rich
Poet
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Renée Richards
Transgender Pioneer
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Sylvia Rivera
Transgender Activist
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Anthony Romero
Activist
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Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady
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Hilary Rosen
Commentator
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Vito Russo
Film Historian 
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Bayard Rustin
Civil Rights Activist
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David Sedaris
Writer/Humorist
2010 Icon
Maurice Sendak
Author/Illustrator
2010 Icon
Michelangelo Signorile
Journalist & Radio Host
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Stephen Sondheim
Theatrical lyricist and composer
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poet/Performer
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Baron von Steuben
Revolutionary War General
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Billy Strayhorn
Composer
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Mary Trump
Author & Former President's Niece
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Urvashi Vaid
Activist
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Rufus Wainwright
Singer/Songwriter  
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Mary Edwards Walker
Surgeon
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Andy Warhol
Artist, filmmaker and publisher
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Jann Wenner
Publisher
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Edith Wharton
Pulitzer-Winning Novelist
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Walt Whitman
Writer/ Philosopher
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Edie Windsor
Marriage Equality Hero
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B.D. Wong
Actor and filmmaker
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Jason Wu
Designer
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