Search The Directory The Web for Home > Society > Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual > History > Historical_Personas New! Submit a site   Categories: Alexander the Great *(18) Richard I, the Lionheart *(7) Dooley, Thomas Anthony *(14) Turing, Alan *(10)     whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Baron Wilhelm Von Gloeden (1856-1931) - Incisive overview of the life and art of the pioneering German gay photographer, his lifelong affair with his favorite model, and the destruction of much of his collection at the hands of Benito Mussolini's fascists.   Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) - Brief article on the public and private life of Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her lesbian connections and the suppression of the evidence.   Famous Gays and Lesbians in History - List of historical personages identified as homosexual, including dates and brief descriptions.   Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) - Short bio of the gay poet and dramatist, the greatest Spanish literary figure of the 20th century, killed by Franco's fascists because of his homosexual affairs.   Hadrian and Antinous - A look at the life, death, and deification of the youth Antinous and his effect on Emperor Hadrian of Rome.   Harmodius and Aristogiton - The story of the pair of homosexual lovers from ancient Athens who were credited with the overthrow of the tyranny and the establishment of the democracy.   J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) - Off the beaten path details about the private life of the long-serving homosexual director of the FBI, and his lover, Clyde Tolson.   Jane Harrison (1850-1928) - Brief biography of Jane Harrison, British classical scholar and professor of archeology, and her lesbian love affair with one of her students, Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978).   Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) - Johann Joachim Winckelmann, the great German scholar and art historian, famed for his homosexual liaisons, killed by one of his lovers.   Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - The great composer's apparent homosexuality: his avoidance of women, his possessive love for his nephew, and its coverup by the destruction of much of their correspondence.   Maria Louise Pool (1841-1898) - Excerpts from a biography of the lesbian New England writer, unusually frank considering it was published in 1899.   Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell (1857-1941) - Exposé of Lord Baden-Powell, British military man and founder of the international Boy Scout movement, detailing his homosexual interests.   Sophocles (497-406 BCE) - Short bio of the famous Athenian playwright, highlighting his gay affairs.   Total Eclipse -- Rimbaud and Verlaine - An account of the lives of the two nineteenth century French poets, and of their homosexual relationship.   Vita Sackville-West - Brief bio of British writer and poet, lesbian lover of Virginia Woolf.   William Rufus de Vane King (1786-1853) - William Rufus King, Vice President of the United States and homosexual lover of President James Buchanan. Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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