Well known gay men

Allan Horsfall Allan Horsfall is often referred to as the grandfather of the gay rights movement. Mark Ashton Photo by Michaeljackson The support group collected donations at the Lesbian and Gay Pride march in London for the miners on strike. Alan Turing Photo by PhotoColor.

Inhe revealed he had a son via surrogate and that he would be raising him with his ex-partner. Her comedy and warmth have won millions of fans. Since then, Cooper has become somewhat of a gay icon, appearing on TV and out in public with his close friend, Andy Cohen.

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CultureFamous people. She came out as gay ina bold move that made headlines and inspired many. The report recommended that having a homosexual relationship should no longer be a criminal offence. Because of this, many of them have become inspirational figures for.

In Allan Horsfall and a group of friends set up the North West Homosexual Law Reform Committee, even giving out his home address as the base for the organization. Turing was a mathematician who cracked the Enigma code which was used by the German military to send encrypted messages.

Here’s a list of 30 famous gay celebrities who have made a big impact with their talent and courage. That’s evidenced by the famous gay men and famous gay women on this list who took the brave move of letting people know who they really are and standing with pride for it.

The story was later immortalized in the film Pride, which saw Ashton played by actor Ben Schnetzer. As the world delves more and more into the acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community, it seems as though the number of famous gay people gets higher and higher. This laid the foundations for a later law which partially decriminalised male homosexuality for the first time in England and Wales.

He died at 26 because of AIDS. Nevertheless gay people continue to leave an impact by doing great things in the community. However, gay people continue to face a lot of challenges.

Ellen DeGeneres TMDb Ellen DeGeneres is a household name known for her talk show ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’. Anderson Cooper Photo by Gage Skidmore. By the end of the 20th century, the word gay was recommended by major LGBT groups and style guides to describe people attracted to members of the same sex, although it is more commonly used to refer specifically to men.

He was also a victim of midth Century attitudes to homosexuality and in he was arrested because being homosexual was illegal in Britain at this time. It became the first campaigning organization outside of London set up and run by gay men, and its work directly led to homosexuality no longer being illegal.

In the s, gay became the word utilized by homosexual men to describe their sexual orientation. Let’s look at the 30 Famous People who Changed the World. They have gone a long way to make their rights known and heard. Photo by Ludovic Bertron. To be so open at that time was very brave.

Goronwy Rees Goronwy Rees began his career as a journalist before working for MI6 and becoming the principal of Aberystwyth University. This is because he openly campaigned as a gay man when homosexuality was still illegal.

They have gone a long way to make their rights known and heard. Wikimedia Commons. This pardoning has come to be known as the Alan Turing law. Evan Wolfson Wolfson is an attorney based in New York who worked with Lambda Legal until when he left to launch the Freedom to Marry organization.

This shortened the war by several years.