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  2. Gabriel Attal
  3. Alvin Balltrop
  4. Frieda Belinfante
  5. Michael Bennett
  6. Rachel Crandall-Crocker
  7. Barry Diller
  8. Ernestine Eckstein
  9. Laïla El-Métoui
  10. Edward Enninful
  11. Andrea Gibson
  12. Marsden Hartley
  13. Muhsin Hendricks
  14. Patricia Highsmith
  15. Robert Joffrey
  16. Julie Johnson
  17. Lani Ka’ahumanu
  18. King James I
  19. Calvin Klein
  20. Abraham Lincoln
  21. Chris Pappas
  22. Pauline Park
  23. Paul Rudolph
  24. Amber Ruffin
  25. St. Vincent
  26. Jessica Stern
  27. Charles Sumner
  28. Jewel Thais-Williams
  29. Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
  30. Alok Vaid-Menon
  31. Edmund White

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Virginia Apuzzo
Pioneering Activist
2016 Icon
John Boswell
Historian
2006 Icon
Kate Clinton
Comedian, Actor
2012 Icon
Jeanne Córdova
Activist and Author
2016 Icon
Lea Delaria
Comedian & Actor
2022 Icon
Elio Di Rupo
Belgium Prime Minister 
2013 Icon
John D’Emilio
LGBTQ Historian
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Sean Hayes
Award-Winning Actor
2018 Icon
Father Mychal Judge
Hero
2006 Icon
Federico Garcia Lorca
Poet
2012 Icon
Bernárd Lynch
Catholic Priest
2020 Icon
John McNeill
Theologian
2007 Icon
Michelangelo
Renaissance painter, sculptor and architect
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Jean O’Leary
Pioneering Activist
2016 Icon
Amy Schneider
“Jeopardy!” Champion
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Pierre Seel
Hero/Activist   
2012 Icon
Andrew Sullivan
Author/Journalist
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