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This six time Grammy winner and winner of one Golden Globe, born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, is an outspoken activist for the LGBT Community being a bisexual woman herself. She won the Guinness World Record for Most Product Placement in a Video for her music video Telephone featuring Beyonce.
Who is Lady Gaga?
This 43 year old star of critically acclaimed TV shows such as American Horror Story and The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story has won a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy for her performances. Describing her sexuality as "fluid," she has been in a relationship with actress Holland Taylor, age 75, since 2015. The age gap has never stopped being weird.
Who is Sarah Paulson?
This movie about two gay cowboys in the '60s has a weirdly star studded cast, with Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Anne Hathaway, and Michelle Williams. Director Ang Lee won an Oscar for Best Achievement in Directing, making him the first Asian to win the Academy Award for Best Director.
What is Brokeback Mountain?
Known for his Pop Art silk screen paintings, including one of 4 prints of Marilyn Monroe in bright colors, he was an openly gay man who painted Campbell Soup.
Who is Andy Warhol?
Gay marriage was declared constitutional in the United States on this date.
What is June 26th, 2015?
He rose to popularity with his album "In the Lonely Hour," earning 4 Grammys, and topping charts with songs like "I'm Not the Only One" and "Stay with Me." In his most recent album, The Thrill of it All, he sings about heartbreak and struggling with being gay alongside his spirituality.
Who is Sam Smith?
Being quoted as saying "I always play women I would date," she is among the highest payed actresses in Hollywood, starring in blockbusters like "Maleficent" and "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider." She's openly bisexual and made headlines withe her famously messy divorce with ex-husband, Brad Pitt.
Who is Angelina Jolie?
A record setting coming of age drama about a young black man struggling with his sexuality, this movie famously won the Oscar for Best Picture after it was mistakenly announced La La Land had won the award.
What is Moonlight?
An ancient Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. Her work describing a love for women is credited for giving women who love women the name Lesbians.
Who is Sappho?
A turning point in the modern gay rights movement, these riots against police in the late 60's took the name of one of the gay bars the police raided.
What are the Stonewall Riots?
Good at anything she does, this actress/ directer/ singer/ and rapper recently starred in a short television film "Dirty Computer" which was a teaser trailer for her own album. She identifies as pansexual and presumed to be in a relationship with costar Tessa Thompson in "Dirty Computer."
Who is Janelle Monae?
Most well known for her role as Sophia Burset on "Orange is the New Black," she is an award winning transgender actress and LGBT activist.
Who is Laverne Cox?
Winner of the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2017, this movie depicts a romance between Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer in Italy.
What is Call Me By Your Name?
A Mexican painter with a trademark unibrow, she had a rocky marriage with fellow painter Diego Rivera. Her many self portraits often depicted her struggles with her sexuality, and her bisexuality often manifested in her frustrations with her husband.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
These two people found frozen in an embrace died during an explosion and were mummified in a famous volcanic eruption from 79 AD. They were recently discovered to be two men.
Winner of 8 Grammys, a Golden Globe, and an Academy Award, this singer was an androgynous icon with a notably amorphous sexuality. After his death in 2016, Pantone introduced a shade of purple in his honor, called "Love Symbol #2" in August 2017.
Who is Prince?
Best known as icons Gandalf the Grey in "The Lord of the Rings" franchise and Magneto in the "X-Men" movies, he came out as gay way back in 1988. A well known LGBT advocate, this actor is now 79 years old and still outspoken.
Who is Ian McKellen?
Based on the book Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, this movie follows Simon Spier as he attempts to find his anonymous love letter sender. This film is noted as the first film by a major Hollywood studio to focus on a gay teenage romance.
Gay author of Where the Wild Things Are (this one is a stretch I had to search for it sorry lmao)
Who is Maurice Sendak?
The first culture that was proven to be on that gay stuff.
What is Ancient Egypt?
Rising to popularity in such amazing films as Scooby- Doo! The Mystery Begins and Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster, playing Velma in both, and the Disney Channel original Lemonade Mouth, playing Stevie, her music career has been thriving recently with singles such as "Girls Like Girls" reaching 95 million views. She is a gay woman, advocating for LGBT rights through her music.
Who is Hayley Kiyoko?
Ironically known for his charm with women on the TV show How I Met Your Mother as the character Barney, this star of stage and screen is married to David Burtka and has 2 kids, Gideon Scott and Harper Grace. I strongly recommend looking at their family Halloween costumes, they're precious.
Who is Neil Patrick Harris?
This film follows Adèle, a French teenager who discovers desire and freedom when a blue-haired aspiring painter (Seydoux) enters her life. Approximately 800 hours of footage were shot and the movie was intended to be 189 minutes long.
What is Blue Is the Warmest Colour?
Playwrite of plays I've heard of such as A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and The Glass Menagerie. He was gay and reportedly went for younger men in his older age.
Who is Tennessee Williams?
Inventor of a famous test that distinguishes whether or not a machine is a human, he was prosecuted for "gross indecency" in the early '50s in Britain for just being gay.
Who is Alan Turing?