2018 Icons
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- Michelangelo Signorile
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- Lou Sullivan
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- Keshav Suri
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- Sylvester
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- William “Big Bill” Tilden II
- Andrew Tobias
- Lily Tomlin
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- Alice Walker
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- Andy Warhol
- John Waters
- Perry Watkins
- Jeffrey Weinstein
- Jann Wenner
- Tim’m T. West
- Edith Wharton
- Mel White
- Walt Whitman
- Oscar Wilde
- Tennessee Williams
- Phill Wilson
- Rodney Wilson
- Edie Windsor
- Evan Wolfson
- B.D. Wong
- Rev. Robert Wood
- Virginia Woolf
- Klaus Wowereit
- Chely Wright
- Jason Wu
- Emanuel Xavier
- Pedro Zamora
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