Famous Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People

The following list includes those people who have confirmed their homosexual or bisexual orientation or whose homosexual or bisexual orientation is not debated. A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L   M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   Y   Z  A Louise Abbéma, French painter, relationship with Sarah Bernhardt Bernice Abbott, U.S. photographer Roberta Achtenberg, US Politician Valentine Ackland, British writer Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright and costume designer Jane Addams, American social reformer Edward Albee, American Playwright (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) Néstor Almendros, Spanish Academy Award-winning cinematographer Pedro Almodóvar Spanish director, Oscar winner Chad Allen, American actor Peter Allen, Australian entertainer, Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (Eds.) (2001). Ted Allen, food and wine guru on Queer Eye Scott Amedure, victim in the "Jenny Jones murder" Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish writer Kenneth Anger, American filmaker Steve Antin, American actor Gregg Araki, director of Doom Generation and The Living End Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet, author of "Before Night Falls" ("Antes que anochezca") Joan Armatrading, singer-songwriter John Ashbery, American poet Othniel Askew, American assassin Sir Frederick Ashton, British choreographer W. H. Auden, British poet Kevin Aviance, dance music singer  B Francis Bacon, British painter Joan Baez, American singer, bisexual Josephine Baker, Singer, actress, French resistance member during WWII, bisexual James Baldwin, American author Tammy Baldwin - member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D - Wisconsin) Alan Ball, writer (American Beauty, "Six Feet Under") Tallulah Bankhead, Actress Samuel Barber, U.S. composer Clive Barker, Author, director, artist, known primarily for his work in the horror genre Djuna Barnes, Novelist, bisexual Tim Barnett, New Zealand member of parliament Michael Barrymore, British comedian Drew Barrymore, actress, bisexual Roland Barthes, French literary theorist Paul Bartel, American filmaker Katharine Lee Bates, writer of "America the Beautiful" Billy Bean, former major league baseball player Amanda Bearse, American actor ("Married...with Children"), director Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, British photographer, Tony Award-winning set designer and Academy Award-winning costume designer Alison Bechdel, American cartoonist (Dykes to Watch Out For) Gladys Bentley, American blues singer Sandra Bernhard, American comedian, singer, author and actor, bisexual Sarah Bernhardt, French actress Leonard Bernstein, U.S. composer and conductor, bisexual, Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (Eds.) Ole von Beust, mayor of Hamburg James Bidgood, US photographer and filmmaker (Pink Narcissus) Mark Bingham, United Airlines flight 93 passenger, victim of the September 11, 2001 attacks Elizabeth Birch, former head of Human Rights Campaign, longtime partner of Hillary Rosen Marie-Claire Blais, Quebec novelist Ross Bleckner, American artist Marc Blitzstein, American theater composer Sir Dirk Bogarde, British actor Chastity Bono, American activist, lesbian, daughter of Cher and Sonny Bono Michel Marc Bouchard, Canadian playwright (Les feluettes) David Bowie, British musician Jane Bowles, American author, married to Paul Bowles Paul Bowles, American expatriate author and once composer, married to Jane Bowles, Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (Eds.) Karin Boye, Swedish poet and novelist Ben Bradshaw, English politician Marlon Brando, American actor, bisexual Scott Brison, Canadian member of Parliament Benjamin Britten, English composer, Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (Eds.) Nicole Brossard, Quebec poet and novelist Bob Brown, Australian senator Lady Bunny, drag performer Guy Burgess, Spy Glenn Burke, American baseball player Raymond Burr, American actor, Perry Mason, Ironside William S. Burroughs, American Beat author (Naked Lunch, Junky) Judith Butler C John Cage, highly influential American composer of aleatoric music and partner of Merce Cunningham Andrew Calimach, American author of Romanian extraction Truman Capote, American author Edward Carpenter, poet Chris Carter, New Zealand Minister of Conservation, Minister of Local Government and Minister for Ethnic Affairs Giacomo Casanova, seducer Roger Casement, Irish patriot Michael Cashman, British actor and politician Luis Cernuda, Spanish playwright Graham Chapman, British comedian Tracy Chapman, singer/songwriter Richard Chamberlain, American actor Mary Cheney, daughter of U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer Margaret Cho, American comedian, bisexual Wayson Choy, Canadian novelist James Clark, British ambassador to Luxembourg Montgomery Clift, American actor Kate Clinton, American comedian Kurt Cobain, singer, songwriter of Nirvana, bisexual James Coco, American Jean Cocteau, French director and artist, lover of Jean Marais Roy Cohn, associate of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy Colette Novelist, actress, bisexual Jeffrey Collman, American Airlines flight 11 flight attendant, victim of the September 11, 2001 attacks Aaron Copland, American composer, documented in Howard Pollack's biography Henry Cowell, highly influential American composer Gavin Crawford, Canadian television comic Rene Crevel, French surrealist author Quentin Crisp, British actor, author, and wit Aleister Crowley, occultist Alan Cumming, Scottish actor Andrew Cunanan, American spree killer, murdered Gianni Versace Merce Cunningham, choreographer and partner of John Cage Catie Curtis, American singer-songwriter  D Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer Libby Davies, Canadian member of parliament Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun and singer-songwriter Ellen DeGeneres, writer, comedian and actor Divine, actor (in many of John Waters' films) Dreuxilla Divine, transvestite Bertrand Delanoë, mayor of Paris Samuel Delany, science fiction author Lea DeLaria, American comedian, jazz singer, author Portia de Rossi, actress Marlene Dietrich, actress, bisexual Ani DiFranco, American folk singer, bisexual Roman Dmowski, Polish politician, black mailed by the Okhranka, Imperial Russia's secret police Candas Dorsey, Canadian science fiction author Brian Dowling, 2001 British Big Brother winner Kyan Douglas, grooming guru on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy Diane Duane, author, bisexual Marcel Duchamp, artist, inventor of the found object