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Dear homophobes...by ~Hex-Reinette

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Yeah, I was bored and I was in a gay-rights-y mood.

I know this is crappily made. Hey, it was like 4AM.
(If I've left out any lesbian/gay/bi person who you think is particularly, outstandingly important, please don't complain -_- Ditto if I've included someone who you think shouldn't have been included. This isn't meant to be a contender for the Turner Prize).

EDITS:
1. Thanks for all the faves/comments/newly acquired internet stalkers/whatever

2. I'll repeat: IF I've left anyone out, please don't complain >.< I love Freddie Mercury just as much as you do, just not quite enough to edit the goddamn picture.

3. I got 99% of my info from wikipedia. People have been asking about:

- Wilfred Owen: Yeah, he was pretty certainly gay.
- Shakespeare: Well, that's a little less certain. But bi, we think. There were a few poems that were either love poems or "expressions of intense friendship" for young men. Also - Antonio and Bassanio.
- Da Vinci - Again, less certain. He had a few romantic letters to and from his *cough* students, and he was tried for sodomy a few times.

Basically, yes, most of these are speculation, because up until very recently there just weren't openly or obviously gay people (apart from Oscar Wilde, who didn't really make too much of an attempt at hiding it, did he? >.<). So yeah, we have to work on speculation. But I tried to only use people who are *widely* speculated about.

...IF you guys like I can add a "probably" after all their names.

(Also, in Ancient Greece (and to a lesser extent, Ancient Rome) it was pretty normal for men to sleep with men, but it didnt necessarily make one gay. THat's quite a simplification, but basically, there were WAY too many classical poets for me to include all of them).

3. No, wait-

4. I forgot to mention this first time around, but for any of our trans friends out there, sorry I didn't include any famous trans people

Like I said, this was made very quickly at an indecent hour in the morning. There were a couple of trans Egyptian pharoahs, actually (or it might have been Roman emperors...either way >.<), and I suppose I could have included them. The thing is, I've never been quite sure about lumping trans people in with lesbian/gay/bi people, because sexuality is entirely different from gender, but hey. THat's a rasnt for another time.

But sorry there aren't any trans people on there.

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*Dark-Pangolin Jun 27, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I will now look at Da Vinci and Shakespeare with even more respect.

~xelanesque May 12, 2012

YOU FORGOT GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER!!!

!narutoluver88 Oct 18, 2011 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

everyone is equal and some gay people rule the world

!IZfan4eva May 23, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

what the buck is gay. and he is (next to Shane Dawson) the funnest guy on youtube! :J

~hyperdino Dec 6, 2010

Alexander the Great was gay and he led a massive and impressive army : )

~kamilog Oct 20, 2010

Just learned this the other day but King Leonidas (most famously Gerard Butlers character in movie 300) and all the other spartans would acually take on younger men and sleep with them all the time. Just saying even mocho men like Spartans use to sleep with other men

on a side note they also use to comb and braid their long silky hair before battle and the women weren't aloud to have long hair. Shows how times have changed eh

~TheFallen7fold Oct 20, 2010

Yeah, I agree on not including trans people on this particular deviation ('cause gender is, as you've pointed out, not a sexual preferance).
But I think they should be "lumped together" in most other aspects because of the whole LGBT community thing. Plus Trans people (especially MtFs) get more bullying and are lesser known that gay/bi/lesbians and therefore need more support from understandng people (who tend to be the gay/bi/lesbians)

=Ottoenlotte Oct 20, 2010 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

you've forgot alexander the great

You know the one who took all the elephants over the alpes and conquered rome

~elianthos80 Nov 2, 2010

Unless you were joking, it was Hannibal [link] the one to pull the elephant Alps crossing, not Alexander

. Alex was more into the Eastern lands ^^

=Ottoenlotte Nov 2, 2010 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

oh yeah ^^ guess i have to reread my history books ^^

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