GBLT Contributions To Society?

[Green Gaia]

Amy Lowell (Poet)

You get kisses for that. :flirt:

Umm... me?

Seriously though, there are many influential lesbian and bisexual women writers who I am studying right now. Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Audre Lorde, Colette, Radclyffe Hall, Djuna Barnes, etc, etc...

 

[Booko]

I could name quite a few gay interior designers....but you guys wouldn't know any of them. There are tons though.

Christopher Lowell!

Oh...gay health care providers.

I would be seriously dead without them. I dunno what it is, but nearly every competent healer I've had in 20 years was gay.

Maybe God was trying to tell me something.

 

[Buttercup]

Andy Warhol
I think Georgia O'Keefe might have been a lesbian. Does anyone know?

 

[Green Gaia]

Andy Warhol
I think Georgia O'Keefe might have been a lesbian. Does anyone know?

She was at least bisexual, having relationships with both men and women.

 

[Tigress]

Sir Ian McKellen

Magneto's gay? I never knew that. lol

 

[Mike182]

Michel Stipe of R.E.M

wow... i didn't know that

 

[Mike182]

Magneto's gay? I never knew that. lol

puts a new slant on the whole Magneto/Mystique relationship, huh?

 

[Green Gaia]

Hey Phil, what do you think of moving this thread to a discussion part of the open forum? Maybe do a little educating...

 

[jamaesi]

Chuck Palahniuk, who is one of my favourite authours.

 

[Sunstone]

Hey Phil, what do you think of moving this thread to a discussion part of the open forum? Maybe do a little educating...

I think that's a great idea! It's high time that the rest of the Forum learned Standing Alone, Feathers, and Circle One were in cahoots to create the first GBLT yard gnomes..... and then gnap them!!!

 

[Katzpur]

When GBLT folks aren't busy tearing down traditional marriage and thus bringing about the utter collapse of society, they have been busy making contributions to society. Oscar Wilde immediately comes to mind as someone who was gay and contributed immeasurably to the arts and theatre. Who are some others?

I know of several who contribute immeasurably to RF. Does that count?

 

[MaddLlama]

Rudolph Nureyev
Petr Tchaikovsky

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The only one that comes to mind for me is Freddie Mercury.

 

[dawny0826]

Kevin Aucoin. He made people look and feel beautiful about themselves.

 

[Zephyr]

 

[Bastet]

Magneto's gay? I never knew that. lol

On his official webpage. See the column on the right.

wow... i didn't know that

A couple of quotes:

In Q Magazine, Stipe said, "Am I queer? Absolutely. I have enjoyed sex with men and women throughout my life." [1]

In a 2001 Newsweek interview Stipe described himself as a "queer artist". In previous interviews he has described himself as "an equal opportunity Lech" and said he doesn't define himself as gay, straight or bisexual, but that he was "just sexual" and was attracted to and had relationships with both men and women. [2]

 

[Comprehend]

When GBLT folks aren't busy tearing down traditional marriage and thus bringing about the utter collapse of society, they have been busy making contributions to society. Oscar Wilde immediately comes to mind as someone who was gay and contributed immeasurably to the arts and theatre. Who are some others?

How in the heck am I supposed to know who is gay and who isn't?

 

[ChrisP]

LOL! I'm interested in finding out how up on their GBLT history people are!

Question : What does someones sexual orientation have to do with their skills and accomplishments?

Answer: Nothing

 

[Rough_ER]

Caravaggio. (For his art, not the whole chopping off of testicles thing )

 

[Ozzie]

Ludwig Wittgenstein: most influential philosopher of the 20th Century.