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  1. Giorgio Armani
  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

Illinois

Kitty Cone
Disability Rights Activist
2022 Icon
Lea Delaria
Comedian & Actor
2022 Icon
Ruth Ellis
Activist
2009 Icon
Henry Gerber
Activist/Educator
2012 Icon
Jim Hormel
Diplomat/Philanthropist
2006 Icon
Rock Hudson
Award-Winning Actor
2019 Icon
Jim Kolbe
Congressman
2006 Icon
Dave Kopay
Athlete
2011 Icon
Jane Lynch
Actor and filmmaker
2010 Icon
Deirdre McCloskey
Economist and Economic Historian
2009 Icon
CeCe McDonald
Transgender Activist     
2014 Icon
Suze Orman
Financial Expert
2009 Icon
Dan Savage
Journalist
2011 Icon
Lowell Selvin
Entrepreneur
2006 Icon
Susan Sontag
Author/Commentator
2007 Icon
Phill Wilson
AIDS Activist
2006 Icon
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