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Zackie Achmat
South African Activist
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Alexander the Great
Military Commander
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Nikolay Alexeyev
Russian Activist
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Pedro Almodóvar
Writer/Director
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Marin Alsop
Trailblazing Conductor
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John Amaechi
Pro Basketball Player
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Hans Christian Andersen
Fairy Tale Author
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Reinaldo Arenas
Cuban Author
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W.H. Auden
Poet & Activist
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Axel Axgil
Activist
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Josephine Baker
Singer and Actor
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Djuna Barnes
Author
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Natalie Barney
Author
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Gad Beck
Holocaust Survivor
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Volker Beck
German Activist
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Miriam Ben-Shalom
Soldier/Activist
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Xavier Bettel
Prime Minister of Luxembourg
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Georgina Beyer
First transgender member of a national legislature 
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Sandro Botticelli
Renaissance Painter, sculptor and architect
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David Bowie
Rock Star
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Ana Brnabić
Prime Minister of Serbia
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Lord Byron
Poet
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Chi Chia-wei
Taiwanese Gay Pioneer
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Tseng Kwong Chi
Photographer
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Frédéric Chopin
Composer & Suffragette
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Jean Cocteau
Writer
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Alan Cumming
Actor
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Nancy Cárdenas
Mexican Writer & Activist
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Leonardo da Vinci
Artist/Inventor/Scientist
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Zhou Dan
Chinese Gay Pioneer
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Bertrand Delanoë
First openly gay mayor of Paris
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Elio Di Rupo
Belgium Prime Minister 
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Marlene Dietrich
Actor
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Lili Elbe
Transgender Pioneer and Painter
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Uzi Even
Israeli Gay Pioneer and Scientist
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Rainer Fassbinder
Film Director
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Tom of Finland
Artist
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E. M. Forster
Author/Commentator
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Michel Foucault
Philosopher
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Tessa Ganserer
Transgender German Politician
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Jean Paul Gaultier
Designer
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Henry Gerber
Activist/Educator
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Karl Gorath
Auschwitz Survivor
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Menaka Guruswamy & Arundhati Katju
Indian LGBTQ Rights Lawyers
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Radclyffe Hall
English Author
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Magnus Hirschfeld
Social Scientist
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David Hockney
Artist
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Alexander von Humboldt
Father of Ecology
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Christopher Isherwood
Trailblazing Writer
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Taiga Ishikawa
Japanese Politician
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Eddie Izzard
British Comedian & Actor
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Marc Jacobs
Fashion Designer/Filmmaker
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Elton John
Musician
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Frida Kahlo
Artist
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David Kato
Activist/Educator
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John Maynard Keynes
Economist
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Michael Kirby
Supreme Court Justice       
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k.d. lang
Singer/Songwriter  
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Steve Letsike
South African Activist
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Saul Levin
CEO of the APA
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Federico Garcia Lorca
Poet
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Bernárd Lynch
Catholic Priest
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Claudia López
Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia
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Irshad Manji
Muslim Reformist
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Masha Gessen
Russian-American journalist
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Amélie Mauresmo
Athlete
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Claude McKay
Author & Poet
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Ian McKellen
Actor
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Freddie Mercury
Rock Star
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Michelangelo
Renaissance painter, sculptor and architect
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Yukio Mishima
Japanese Author
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Frank Mugisha
Ugandan Activist
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Ifti Nasim
Poet & Activist
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Martina Navratilova
Tennis Champion
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Florence Nightingale
Health Care Advocate
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Simon Nkoli
South African Activist
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Rudolf Nureyev
International Ballet Star
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Diana Nyad
Long-distance Swimmer
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Anaraa Nyamdorj
Mongolian LGBT Activist
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Sunil Babu Pant
Nepalese Politician
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Angela Ponce
Transgender Miss Spain
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Megan Rapinoe
Olympic Soccer Player
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Ashok Row Kavi
Indian Gay Pioneer and Journalist
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Jalal al-Din Rumi
Sufi Mystic/Poet
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Sappho
Seventh Century B.C. Poet
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Pierre Seel
Hero/Activist   
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Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
Prime Minister of Iceland
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Yves St. Laurent
Fashion Designer and entrepreneur
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Baron von Steuben
Revolutionary War General
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Keshav Suri
Indian Activist
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Swe Zin Htet
Miss Universe Contestant
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Composer
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Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
Indian Transgender Rights Activist
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Alan Turing
Mathematician
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Urvashi Vaid
Activist
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Leo Varadkar
Prime Minister of Ireland
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Gianni Versace
Fashion designer and entrepreneur
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Rufus Wainwright
Singer/Songwriter  
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Oscar Wilde
Playwright
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Penny Wong
Australian Foreign Minister
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Virginia Woolf
Author/Illustrator
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Klaus Wowereit
Politician
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Jason Wu
Designer
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Pedro Zamora
AIDS Activist
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