2019 Icons
- Ethel Allen
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Gladys Bentley
- Jackie Biskupski
- Kate Bornstein
- Ana Brnabić
- Pete Buttigieg
- Eliza Byard
- Brandi Carlile
- George Chauncey
- Lou Chibbaro Jr.
- Sharice Davids
- Babe Didrickson
- Cheryl Dunye
- Lillian Faderman
- Ronan Farrow
- Jewelle Gomez
- Emma González
- Sherenté Harris
- Rock Hudson
- Robert Indiana
- James Ivory
- Anne Lister
- Arthur Mitchell
- Julia Morgan
- Anaraa Nyamdorj
- Jared Polis
- Angela Ponce
- Keshav Suri
- Lillian Wald
- Edith Wharton
Icons from All Years
- Zackie Achmat
- Roberta Achtenberg
- David Adamany
- Richard Adams
- Jane Addams
- Alvin Ailey Jr.
- Faisal Alam
- Edward Albee
- Alexander the Great
- Ethel Allen
- Kye Allums
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Eric Alva
- John Amaechi
- Tom Ammiano
- Gloria Anzaldua
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Virginia Apuzzo
- Gwen Araujo
- Reinaldo Arenas
- John Ashbery
- Axel Axgil
- Jack Baker & Michael McConnell
- Gilbert Baker
- Josephine Baker
- Tammy Baldwin
- James Baldwin
- Tallulah Bankhead
- Ann Bannon
- Djuna Barnes
- Natalie Barney
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Lance Bass
- Katharine Lee Bates
- Joseph Beam
- Billy Bean
- James Beard
- Alison Bechdel
- Gad Beck
- Volker Beck
- Miriam Ben-Shalom
- Gladys Bentley
- Ruth Berman & Connie Kurtz
- Leonard Bernstein
- Selisse Berry
- John Berry
- Carolyn Bertozzi
- Xavier Bettel
- Georgina Beyer
- Bernice Bing
- Mark Bingham
- Elizabeth Birch
- Joan Biren
- Jackie Biskupski
- Dustin Lance Black
- Richard Blanco
- Charles Blow
- Mary Bonauto
- Brian Bond
- Chaz Bono
- Melvin Boozer
- Kate Bornstein
- John Boswell
- Sandro Botticelli
- Ivy Bottini
- David Bowie
- Keith Boykin
- Ana Brnabić
- Rita Mae Brown
- James Buchanan
- Charlotte Bunch
- Glenn Burke
- Richard Burns
- Pete Buttigieg
- Eliza Byard
- Lord Byron
- Allan Bérubé
- Paul Cadmus
- John Cage
- Patrick Califia
- Michael Callen
- Margarethe Cammermeyer
- Jonathan Capehart
- Truman Capote
- Brandi Carlile
- Rachel Carson
- Francisco Cartagena
- Mandy Carter
- George Washington Carver
- Willa Cather
- Tracy Chapman
- Debra Chasnoff
- George Chauncey
- Chi Chia-wei
- Tseng Kwong Chi
- Lou Chibbaro Jr.
- Staceyann Chin
- Margaret Cho
- Dan Choi
- Meg Christian
- Kate Clinton
- Jean Cocteau
- Chris Colfer
- Jason Collins
- Lynn Conway
- Tim Cook
- Anderson Cooper
- Aaron Copland
- Ramon Cortines
- Midge Costanza
- Laverne Cox
- Orlando Cruz
- George Cukor
- Alan Cumming
- Jeanne Córdova
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Zhou Dan
- Lee Daniels
- Sharice Davids
- Clive Davis
- Angela Davis
- Wade Davis II
- Elsie de Wolfe
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Bertrand Delanoë
- Samuel Delany
- Stormé DeLaverie
- Elio Di Rupo
- Babe Didrickson
- Marlene Dietrich
- Ani DiFranco
- Arthur Dong
- Martin Duberman
- Cheryl Dunye
- George Eastman
- Denise Eger
- Lili Elbe
- Ruth Ellis
- Brian Epstein
- Melissa Etheridge
- Uzi Even
- Edythe Eyde
- Lillian Faderman
- Eric Fanning
- Sharon Farmer
- Ronan Farrow
- Rainer Fassbinder
- Leslie Feinberg
- Harvey Fierstein
- Tom of Finland
- Malcolm Forbes
- Tom Ford
- E. M. Forster
- Jodie Foster
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- Barney Frank
- Frederick II
- John Fryer
- Lady Gaga
- Rudy Galindo
- Darlene Garner
- Alicia Garza
- Jean Paul Gaultier
- David Geffen
- Henry Gerber
- Tim Gill
- Allen Ginsberg
- Barbara Gittings
- Mary Douglas Glasspool
- Peter Gomes
- Jewelle Gomez
- Emma González
- Karl Gorath
- Cary Grant
- Glenn Greenwald
- Angelina Weld Grimké
- Gavin Grimm
- Michael Guest
- Billy Haines
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Keith Haring
- E. Lynn Harris
- Sherenté Harris
- Sherry Harris
- Neil Patrick Harris
- Harry Hay
- Sean Hayes
- Essex Hemphill
- Mary Kay Henry
- Daniel Hernandez Jr.
- Emery Hetrick & Damien Martin
- Magnus Hirschfeld
- David Hockney
- Billie Holiday
- Jim Hormel
- Brenda Howard
- Rock Hudson
- David Huebner
- Chris Hughes
- Langston Hughes
- Joyce Hunter
- Tab Hunter
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Robert Indiana
- Taiga Ishikawa
- James Ivory
- Marc Jacobs
- Mick Jagger
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- Kevin Jennings
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- Angelina Jolie
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- June Jordan
- Barbara Jordan
- Christine Jorgensen
- Father Mychal Judge
- Frida Kahlo
- Frank Kameny
- Roberta Kaplan
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- Frances Kellor
- Kate Kendell
- Jim Kepner
- John Maynard Keynes
- Billie Jean King
- William Rufus King
- Alfred Kinsey
- Michael Kirby
- Victoria Kolakowski
- Jim Kolbe
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- Larry Kramer
- Sheila Kuehl
- Kiyoshi Kuromiya
- Tony Kushner
- Kay Lahusen
- Nathan Lane
- k.d. lang
- Queen Latifah
- Arthur Laurents
- John Lawrence & Tyron Garner
- Annie Leibovitz
- Don Lemon
- Steve Letsike
- Saul Levin
- Rachel Levine
- Anne Lister
- Alain Locke
- Federico Garcia Lorca
- Audre Lorde
- Greg Louganis
- Sharon Lubinski
- Patsy Lynch
- Jane Lynch
- Jackie “Moms” Mabley
- Rachel Maddow
- Nancy Mahon
- Barry Manilow
- Irshad Manji
- Robert Mapplethorpe
- Ricky Martin
- Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon
- Johnny Mathis
- Leonard Matlovich
- Armistead Maupin
- Amélie Mauresmo
- Deirdre McCloskey
- Tarell Alvin McCraney
- CeCe McDonald
- Ian McKellen
- Constance McMillen
- Terrence McNally
- John McNeill
- Margaret Mead
- Freddie Mercury
- Michelangelo
- Harvey Milk
- Katherine Miller
- Yukio Mishima
- Matthew Mitcham
- Arthur Mitchell
- John Cameron Mitchell
- Janet Mock
- Paul Monette
- Julia Morgan
- Frank Mugisha
- Ryan Murphy
- Pauli Murray
- Sherri Murrell
- Jamie Nabozny
- Martina Navratilova
- Holly Near
- Joan Nestle
- Jack Nichols
- Florence Nightingale
- Cynthia Nixon
- Simon Nkoli
- Elaine Noble
- Ann Northrop
- Bruce Nugent
- Diana Nyad
- Anaraa Nyamdorj
- Rosie O'Donnell
- James Obergefell
- Frank Ocean
- Todd Oldham
- Catherine Opie
- Suze Orman
- Jean O’Leary
- Ellen Page
- Sunil Babu Pant
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- Annise Parker
- Frances Perkins
- Troy Perry
- Jared Polis
- Angela Ponce
- Cole Porter
- John A. Pérez
- Christine Quinn
- Ma Rainey
- Megan Rapinoe
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Adrienne Rich
- Renée Richards
- Sally Ride
- Marlon Riggs
- Adam Rippon
- Sylvia Rivera
- Jerome Robbins
- Robin Roberts
- Gene Robinson
- Craig Rodwell
- Danica Roem
- Anthony Romero
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Hilary Rosen
- Ashok Row Kavi
- Jalal al-Din Rumi
- RuPaul
- Vito Russo
- Bayard Rustin
- Oliver Sacks
- Sahaykwisa
- Michael Sam
- José Sarria
- Dan Savage
- David Sedaris
- Pierre Seel
- Jeffrey Seller
- Lowell Selvin
- Maurice Sendak
- Matthew Shepard
- Randy Shilts
- Michelangelo Signorile
- Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
- Amanda Simpson
- Kyrsten Sinema
- Barbra Siperstein
- Billy Sipple
- Tammy Smith
- Bessie Smith
- Ethel Smyth
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- Susan Sontag
- Dusty Springfield
- Yves St. Laurent
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Peter Staley
- Gertrude Stein
- Tom Stoddard
- Billy Strayhorn
- Jon Stryker
- Lou Sullivan
- Andrew Sullivan
- Keshav Suri
- Sheryl Swoopes
- Wanda Sykes
- Sylvester
- George Takei
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- William “Big Bill” Tilden II
- Andrew Tobias
- Lily Tomlin
- Esera Tuaolo
- Alan Turing
- Virginia Uribe
- Urvashi Vaid
- Lupe Valdez
- Gus Van Sant
- Leo Varadkar
- Jose Antonio Vargas
- Gianni Versace
- Gore Vidal
- Lilli Vincenz
- Bruce Voeller
- Tom Waddell
- Rufus Wainwright
- Lillian Wald
- Mary Edwards Walker
- Alice Walker
- Vaughn Walker
- 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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