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Abbéma, Louise
Abbott, Berenice
Acosta, Mercedes de
Adam, Margie
Adrian-Nilsson, Gösta (GAN)
Advertising and Consumerism
African-American and African Diaspora Art
African Art: Contemporary
African Art: Traditional
AIDS Activism in the Arts
Ailey, Alvin
Akerman, Chantal
Allan, Maud
Allen, Chad
Allen, Peter
Almendros, Néstor
Almodóvar, Pedro
Amaechi, John
American Art: Gay Male, 1900-1969
American Art: Gay Male, Nineteenth Century
American Art: Gay Male, Post-Stonewall
American Art: Lesbian, 1900-1969
American Art: Lesbian, Nineteenth Century
American Art: Lesbian, Post-Stonewall
American Television, Drama
American Television, News
American Television, Reality Shows
American Television, Situation Comedies
American Television, Soap Operas
American Television, Talk Shows
Amies, Sir Hardy
Anderson, Lindsay
Anger, Kenneth
Angus, Patrick
Araki, Gregg
Architecture
Armani, Giorgio
Arts and Crafts Movement
Arzner, Dorothy
Ashley, April
Ashman, Howard
Ashton, Sir Frederick
Asian Film
Asquith, Anthony
Aucoin, Kevyn
Austen, Alice
Australian Art
Australian Film
Australian Television
B-52s
Bachardy, Don
Bacon, Francis
Baez, Joan
Baitz, Jon Robin
Baker, Josephine
Balenciaga, Cristóbal
Ballet
Ballets Russes
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Ball, Alan
Bankhead, Tallulah
Barber, Samuel
Barcelona Monument
Barclay, Paris
Barker, Clive
Barrowman, John
Barr, Richard
Bartel, Paul
Barthé, James Richmond
Barton, Crawford
Bass, Lance
Batt, Bryan
Baxter, Meredith
Bazille, Jean-Frédéric
Bean, Billy
Beardsley, Aubrey
Beard, James
Bearse, Amanda
Beaton, Sir Cecil
Bechdel, Alison
Béjart, Maurice
Bell, Andy
Bennett, Michael
Bentley, Eric
Bentley, Gladys
Berber, Anita
Berlanti, Greg
Berners, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, Baron
Bernhard, Ruth
Bernhard, Sandra
Bernhardt, Sarah
Bernstein, Leonard
Bess, Forrest
Beyer, Georgina
Bingham, Mark
Biren, Joan Elizabeth (JEB)
Bisexuality in Film
Black, Dustin Lance
Blake, Nayland
Bleckner, Ross
Blitzstein, Marc
Blues Music
Blunt, Anthony
Bodybuilding
Boffin, Tessa
Bogarde, Sir Dirk
Boitano, Brian
Bonheur, Rosa
Bono, Chaz
Borden, Lizzie
Borghese, Scipione Caffarelli
Botticelli, Sandro
Boulanger, Nadia
Bourbon, Ray
Bourne, Matthew
Bowery, Leigh
Bowie, David
Boy George (George O'Dowd)
Breker, Arno
Britten, Benjamin
British Television
Bronzino, Agnolo
Brooks, Romaine
Broughton, James
Bruhn, Erik
Burke, Glenn
Burr, Raymond
Burra, Edward
Busch, Charles
Bussotti, Sylvano
Butler, Dan
Caballero, Luis
Cabarets and Revues
Cadinot, Jean-Daniel
Cadmus, Paul
Cage, John
Cahun, Claude
Caja, Jerome
Callow, Simon
Camp Records
Canadian Art
Canadian Television
Caravaggio
Cárdenas, Nancy
Carné, Marcel
Carrington, Dora
Carstairs, Marion Barbara "Joe"
Carter, Nell
Cashman, Michael
Castrati
Cellini, Benvenuto
Censorship in the Arts
Chamberlain, Richard
Chapman, Graham
Charke, Charlotte
Chéreau, Patrice
Cherkassky, Shura
Cheung, Leslie
Chicago, Judy
Cholodenko, Lisa
Cho, Margaret
Choruses and Bands
Christian, Meg
Clark, Ossie
Classical Art
Cliburn, Van
Clift, Montgomery
Clinton, Kate
Close, Roberta
Coco, James
Cocteau, Jean
Collard, Cyril
Comedy: Stand-Up, Gay Male
Comedy: Stand-Up, Lesbian
Comic Strips and Cartoons
Condon, William "Bill"
Conductors
Contemporary Art
Cooling, Janet
Cooper, Anderson
Copland, Aaron
Corelli, Arcangelo
Corigliano, John
Corinne, Tee
Cornell, Katharine, (1893-1974) and Guthrie McClintic (1893-1961)
Correggio (Antonio Allegri)
Country Music
Coward, Sir Noël
Cowell, Henry
Cranston, Toller
Crisp, Quentin
Crowley, Mart
Cruse, Howard
Cukor, George
Cumming, Alan
Cunningham, Merce
Curry, John
Cushman, Charlotte
Dance
Daniels, Lee
Darger, Henry
Dattani, Mahesh
Davies, Sir Peter
Davies, Terence
Davis, Brad
Day, F. Holland
Dean, James
DeCaro, Frank
DeGeneres, Ellen
Deitch, Donna
Delaney, Beauford
DeLaria, Lea
Del Tredici, David
Demuth, Charles
De Rossi, Portia
Diaghilev, Sergei
Diamond, David
Didrikson, Mildred "Babe"
Dietrich, Marlene
DiFranco, Ani
DiMassa, Diane
Dior, Christian
Disco and Dance Music
Divas
Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead)
Dobell, Sir William
Dobkin, Alix
Documentary Film
Dolce & Gabbana
Dolce, Domenico (b. 1958) and Stefano Gabbana (b. 1962)
Donatello
Dong, Arthur
Doone, Rupert
Dorval, Marie
Drag Shows: Drag Kings and Male Impersonators
Drag Shows: Drag Queens and Female Impersonators
Drivas, Robert
Duchamp, Marcel
Duncan, Isadora
Duquesnoy, Jérôme
Durang, Christopher
Dureau, George
Dürer, Albrecht
Duse, Eleonora
Dutch Friendship Glasses
Eakins, Thomas
Edens, Roger
Edison, Laurie Toby
Eichelberger, Ethyl
Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich
Elbe, Lili
Ellis, Perry
Enckell, Magnus Knut
Epperson, John
Epstein, Brian
Epstein, Rob
Erotic and Pornographic Art: Gay Male
Erotic and Pornographic Art: Lesbian
Erté (Romain de Tirtoff)
Etheridge, Melissa
European Art: Baroque
European Art: Eighteenth Century
European Art: Mannerism
European Art: Medieval
European Art: Neoclassicism
European Art: Nineteenth Century
European Art: Renaissance
European Art: Twentieth Century
European Film
Everett, Rupert
Falla (y Matheu), Manuel de
Fani-Kayode, Rotimi
Fashion
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Faye, Frances
Feinstein, Michael
Fernie, Lynne
Ferron (Debby Foisy)
Fierstein, Harvey
Film
Film Actors: Gay Male
Film Actors: Lesbian
Film Directors
Film Festivals
Film Noir
Film Sissies
Film Spectatorship
Findlater, James Ogilvy, Earl of
Fini, Léonor
Finn, William
Flandrin, Hippolyte
Flowers, Wayland
Flynn, Errol
Ford, Tom
Foster, Jodie
French, Jared
Freund, Gisèle
Friend, Donald
Frontrunners
Fry, Stephen
Fuseli, Henry
Galindo, Rudy
Galliano, John
Garbo, Greta
Garland, Judy
Gately, Stephen
Gaultier, Jean-Paul
Gay Games
Geffen, David
George Segal's Gay Liberation
Géricault, Théodore
Gernreich, Rudi
Gielgud, Sir John
Gilbert & George
Gilbert Proesch (b. 1943) and George Passmore (b. 1942)
Gilbert, Peggy
Gilbert, Sara
Girodet-Trioson, Anne-Louis
Gleeson, James
Gloeden, Wilhelm von, Baron
Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein)
Gober, Robert
Gold, Ari
González-Torres, Félix
Goode, Joe
Goodsir, Agnes Noyes
Gordon, Ricky Ian
Gore, Lesley
Goulding, Edmund
Grace, Della (Del Lagrace Volcano)
Granger, Farley
Grant, Cary
Grant, Duncan
Gray, Eileen
Greco, El (Domenicos Theotocopoulos)
Greyson, John
Griffes, Charles Tomlinson
Griffin, Merv
Grinbergs, Andris
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Gupta, Sunil
Haines, William "Billy"
Halford, Rob
Halston (Roy Halston Frowick)
Hammer, Barbara
Hammond, Harmony Lynn
Handel, George Frideric
Haring, Keith
Harrison, Lou
Harris, Neil Patrick
Harris, Sam
Hart, Lorenz
Hart, Moss
Harter, J. B.
Hartley, Marsden
Hartnell, Sir Norman
Hawthorne, Sir Nigel
Hayes, Sean
Haynes, Todd
Heath, Gordon
Helpmann, Sir Robert
Henri, Florence
Henze, Hans Werner
Hepworth, Dorothy (1898-1978), and Patricia Preece (1900-1971)
Herman, Jerry
Higgins, Colin
Hildegard of Bingen
Hindle, Annie
Höch, Hannah
Hockney, David
Hodgkins, Frances
Hoffman, William M.
Homer, Winslow
Homomonument
Hong Kong Film
Horowitz, Vladimir
Horror Films
Horst, Horst P.
Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue
Hough, Stephen
Howe, Delmas
Hudson, Rock
Hughes, Holly
Hujar, Peter
Humphries, Barry
Hunter, Alberta
Hunter, Tab
Hytner, Sir Nicholas
Ian, Janis
Iglesia, Eloy de la
In the Life
Indian Art
Indiana, Robert
Indigo Girls
Inman, John
Innaurato, Albert
Interior Design
Islamic Art
Israel, Frank
Ivory, James (b. 1928), and Ismail Merchant (1936-2005)
Jansson, Tove
Jansson, Eugène Frederik
Japanese Art
Japanese Film
Jazz
Jeter, Michael
Jett, Joan
Joffrey, Robert
John, Sir Elton
Johns, Jasper
Johnson, Philip
Johnston, Frances Benjamin
Jones, Bill T.
Jones, Cherry
Jones, Rosie
Joplin, Janis
Jorgensen, Christine
Julien, Isaac
Kabuki
Kahlo, Frida
Kander, John (b. 1927) and Fred Ebb (1932?-2004)
Kaufman, Moisés
Keenan, Joe
Kemp, Lindsay
Kert, Larry
Khakhar, Bhupen
King, Billie Jean
King, Michael Patrick
Kirkwood, James
Kirstein, Lincoln
Klein, Calvin
Kleiser, Randal
Klumpke, Anna Elizabeth
König, Ralf
Kopay, David
Kowalski, Daniel
Kuchar, George
Kuehl, Sheila James
Kulp, Nancy
LaBruce, Bruce
LaChiusa, Michael John
Lambert, Gavin
Landowska, Wanda
Lane, Nathan
lang, k. d.
Larson, Jonathan
Latin American Art
Latina/Latino American Art
Laughton, Charles
Laurençin, Marie
Laurents, Arthur
The Legacy Walk (Chicago)
Le Gallienne, Eva
Leibovitz, Annie
Leifer, Carol
Leisen, Mitchell
Lempicka, Tamara de
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonard, Michael
Leopold, Nathan F. (1904-1971), and Richard A. Loeb (1905-1936)
Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation
Levan, Larry
Lewis, Mary Edmonia
Leyendecker, Joseph C.
Liberace
Lifar, Serge
Ligon, Glenn
List, Herbert
Little Richard (Richard Penniman)
Long, William Ivey
Louganis, Greg
Lucas, Craig
Ludlam, Charles
Lukacs, Attila Richard
Lully, Jean-Baptiste
Lunt, Alfred (1892-1977), and Lynn Fontanne (1887-1983)
Lynch, Jane
Lynde, Paul
Lynes, George Platt
Maddow, Rachel
Mahlsdorf, Charlotte von
Mammen, Jeanne
Manga
Mann, Erika
Mantello, Joe
Mapa, Alec
Mapplethorpe, Robert
Marais, Jean
Mardi Gras
Marées, Hans von
Martin, Ricky
Mathis, Johnny
Mauresmo, Amélie
McDowall, Roddy
McKellen, Sir Ian
McKuen, Rod
McPhee, Colin
McQueen, Alexander
Meier, Karl
Meigs, Mary
Menotti, Gian Carlo
Mercer, Mabel
Mercury, Freddie
Merritt, Stephin (b. 1966?) and the Magnetic Fields
Messel, Oliver
Meurent, Victorine
Michael, George
Michals, Duane
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Miller, Tim
Mineo, Sal
Minnelli, Vincente
Minton, John
Mitcham, Matthew
Mitchell, John Cameron
Mitropoulos, Dimitri
Molina, Miguel de
Moorehead, Agnes
Morgan, Julia
Morris, Mark
Morrissey, Paul
Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm
Music and AIDS
Music: Classical
Music Festivals
Music: Popular
Music Video
Music: Women's
Musical Theater and Film
Nader, George
Native American Art
Navratilova, Martina
Ndegeocello, Meshell
Near, Holly
Nevelson, Louise
New Queer Cinema
New Zealand Art
Nijinsky, Vaslav
Nixon, Cynthia
Norton, Graham
Novarro, Ramon
Novello, Ivor
Nureyev, Rudolf
Nyad, Diana
Ocaña, José Pérez
O'Donnell, Rosie
O'Haver, Tommy
Olympic Equestrians
Opera
Orman, Suze
Orphanos, Stathis (b.1940), and Sylvester, Ralph (b.1934)
Orser, Brian
Ottinger, Ulrike
Ottman, John
Outgames
Ozpetek, Ferzan
Pacific Art
Pallone, Dave
Pansy Division
Paradjanov, Sergei
Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola)
Parsons, Betty
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Patronage I: The Western World from Ancient Greece until 1900
Patronage II: The Western World since 1900
Pears, Peter
Percier(-Bassant), Charles (1764-1838), and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762-1853)
Performance Art
Perkins, Anthony
Pet Shop Boys
Photography: Gay Male, Post-Stonewall
Photography: Gay Male, Pre-Stonewall
Photography: Lesbian, Post-Stonewall
Photography: Lesbian, Pre-Stonewall
Pierce, Charles
Pierce, David Hyde
Pierre et Gilles
Pisis, Filippo Tibertelli De
Pittman, Lari
Pontormo, Jacopo
Pop Art
Porn Stars
Pornographic Film and Video: Bisexual
Pornographic Film and Video: Gay Male
Pornographic Film and Video: Lesbian
Pornographic Film and Video: Transsexual
Porter, Cole
Porter, Fairfield
Poulenc, Francis
Praunheim, Rosa von
Pries, Lionel H.
Pulp Paperbacks and Their Covers
Quaintance, George
Quintero, José
Radio
Raffalovich, Marc André
Rainbow Flag
Rainey, Gertrude ("Ma")
Raucourt, Françoise
Rauschenberg, Robert
Ravel, Maurice
Ray, Johnnie
Ray, Nicholas
Reed, Lou
Reilly, Charles Nelson
Richardson, Tony
Richards, Renee
Ricketts, Charles (1866-1931), and Charles Shannon (1863-1937)
Riggs, Marlon
Ritts, Herb
Rivers, Larry
Robbins, Jerome
Roberts, Ian
Roberts, Mel
Roberts, Thomas
Robinson, Jack
Robinson, Tom
Rock Music
Rodeos
Rodriguez, Richard
Roos, Don
Rorem, Ned
Rosenmüller, Johann
Rozema, Patricia
Rudnick, Paul
Rudolph, Paul
RuPaul (RuPaul Andre Charles)
Russell, Craig
Russo, Renato
Saint Laurent, Yves
Saint-Saëns, Camille
Saint, Assotto
Salons
Sargent, Dick
Sargent, John Singer
Scavullo, Francesco
Schlesinger, John
Schubert, Franz
Schwarzenbach, Annemarie
Schwules Museum [Gay Museum]
Scissor Sisters
Screenwriters
Sedaris, David
Segal, George
Sekula, Sonja
Sendak, Maurice
Set and Costume Design
Shaffer, Sir Peter
Shaiman, Marc (b. 1959), and Scott Wittman (b. 1955)
Sheehan, Patty
Sherman, Martin
Shores, Del
Siegfried and Roy
Fischbacher, Siegfried (b.1939), and Horn, Roy (b.1944)
Singer, Bryan
Sipprell, Clara Estelle
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Skinner, Cornelia Otis
Slash Fiction
Smith, Bessie
Smith, Willi
The Smiths and Morrissey
Smyth, Dame Ethel
Snyder, Joan
Il Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi)
Solomon, Simeon
Somerville, Jimmy
Sondheim, Stephen
Soto, Jock
Split Britches
Sports: Gay Male
Sports: Lesbian
Sports: Transgender Issues
Springfield, Dusty
Squire, Maud Hunt (1873-1955) and Ethel Mars (1876-1956)
Stage Actors and Actresses
Star, Darren
Stebbins, Emma
Stereotypes
Stiers, David Ogden
Stiller, Mauritz
Stipe, Michael
Strayhorn, William Thomas
Subjects of the Visual Arts: Androgyny
Subjects of the Visual Arts: Bathing Scenes
Subjects of the Visual Arts: Bicycles
Subjects of the Visual Arts: David and Jonathan
Subjects of the Visual Arts: Diana
Subjects of the Visual Arts: Dildoes
Subjects in the Visual Arts: Dionysus
Subjects of the Visual Arts: Endymion
Subjects of the Visual Arts: Ganymede
Subjects of the Visual Arts: Harmodius and Aristogeiton
Subjects of the Visual Arts: Hercules
Subjects of the Visual Arts: Hermaphrodites
Subjects in the Visual Arts: Narcissus
Subjects of the Visual Arts: Nude Females
Subjects of the Visual Arts: Nude Males
Subjects of the Visual Arts: Orpheus
Subjects of the Visual Arts: Priapus
Subjects of the Visual Arts: Psyche
Subjects of the Visual Arts: Sailors and Soldiers
Subjects of the Visual Arts: Sappho
Subjects of the Visual Arts: Sex Workers
Subjects of the Visual Arts: St. Sebastian
Subjects of the Visual Arts: Vampires
Surrealism
Susa, Conrad
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Swoopes, Sheryl
Sykes, Wanda
Sylvester
Symbolists
Symbols
Szymanowski, Karol Maciej
Takarazuka (All-Female Revues in Japan)
Takei, George
Tattoos
Taylor, Paul
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilich
Tchelitchew, Pavel
Teske, Edmund
Tewksbury, Mark
Theater Companies
Thomas, Gareth
Thomson, Virgil
Thornton, Willie Mae "Big Mama"
Tilden, William "Big Bill"
Tillmans, Wolfgang
Tilson Thomas, Michael
Tippett, Sir Michael
Tomlin, Lily
Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen)
Transsexuality in Film
Transvestism in Film
Tress, Arthur
Treut, Monika
Troche, Rose
Tsarouchis, Yannis
Tuke, Henry Scott
Tune, Tommy
Tyler, Robin
Vachon, Christine
Valentino, Rudolph
Van Dantzig, Rudi
Van Sant, Gus
Vargas, Chavela
Variety and Vaudeville
Vaughan, Keith
Versace, Gianni
Video Art
Vilanch, Bruce
The Village People
Visconti, Luchino
Vogel, Paula
Waddell, Tom
Wagnerism
Wagner, Siegfried
Wainwright, Rufus
Walker, Ethel
Warhol, Andy (as artist)
Warhol, Andy (as filmmaker)
Waters, Ethel
Waters, John
Webb, Clifton
Weber, Bruce
Weir, Johnny
Weiss, Andrea
Wells, Cady
Wenner, Jann
Westenhoefer, Suzanne
The Western
Whale, James
Wheeldon, Christopher
Wheeler, Monroe
Whipple, Diane
White, James Melville "Mel"
White, Minor
Whitney, Anne
Williams, Kenneth
Williamson, Cris
Williamson, Kevin
Wilson, Doric
Winant, Fran
Winfield, Paul
Wojnarowicz, David
Wolfe, Elsie de
Wolfe, George C.
Wong, B. D.
Wong, Martin
Wood, Ed
Wood, Thelma Ellen
Wright, Doug
Wright, Robert (1914-2005), and George "Chet" Forrest (1915-1999)
Wu, Alice
Yeomans, Lee Calvin "Cal"
Yew, Chay
Young, Will
Zadan, Craig (b. 1949), and Neil Meron (b. 1955)
Zeffirelli, Franco
Zenil, Nahum B.