American gay writers

American artist, film director, and producer (1928–1987)

American author (1924-1984)

American playwright (1911–1983)

British-American poet (1907–1973)

American poet and writer (1926–1997)

American writer (1924–1987)

American actor, author and activist (born 1937)

American actor (born 1973)

American novelist, essayist

American actor

American playwright (1928–2016)

German writer (1906–1949)

American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor (1900-1990)

American artist and social activist (1958-1990)

American politician (born 1982)

American film director, producer, photographer and musician (born 1952)

Canadian-American stage magician and skeptical movement adherent

American director, screenwriter, and producer (1939–2020)

actor, singer, book author

American illustrator and writer of children's books (1928-2012)

American novelist (b. 1964)

English-American novelist (1904-1986)

American author (1900–1998)

RuPaul Andre Charles (born November 17, 1960) is an American drag queen, television host, singer, producer, writer, and actor. He produces, hosts, and judges the reality competition series ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' and has received several accolades, including 14 Primetime Emmy Awards, three GLAAD Media Awards, a Critics' Choice Television Award, two Billboard Music Awards, a Tony Award, and a Guinness World Records title. He has been dubbed the "Queen of Drag" and is considered the most commercially successful drag queen in the United States, with Fortune saying that he is "easily the world's mo

American actor, author, and former White House staff member in the Barack Obama administration

American novelist and screenwriter

American composer and lyricist (1930–2021)

American Olympic springboard and platform diver

American fashion designer and filmmaker (born 1961)

American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer (born 1946)

Ryan Patrick Murphy is an American writer, director, and producer, working mainly in television. He has often been described as "the most powerful man" in modern television and signed the largest development deal in television history with Netflix. Murphy is noted for having created a shift in inclusive storytelling that "brought marginalised characters to the masses." His accolades include six Primetime Emmy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, a Tony Award, four Producers Guild of America Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, including the honorary Carol Burnett Award.

American singer-songwriter

American singer

American journalist (born 1967)

American journalist, lawyer and writer (born 1967)

Władziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987) was an American pianist, singer, and actor. He was born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian and Polish origin and enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television, motion pictures, and endorsements. At the height of his fame, from the 1950s to 1970s, he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world, with established concert residencies in Las Vegas and an international touring schedule.

poet from the United States of America (1927–2017)

American R&B singer (1951–2005)

former mayor of New York City (1924-2013)

Cuban poet/novelist/playwright (1943–1990)

American actor and playwright

American film director and screenwriter (born 1961)

Scottish-American actor, author, and singer

American playwright and screenwriter (born 1956)

Tab Hunter was an American actor, singer, film producer, and author. Known for his blond hair and clean-cut good looks, Hunter starred in more than forty films. During the 1950s and 1960s, Hunter was a Hollywood heartthrob, acting in numerous roles and appearing on the covers of hundreds of magazines. His notable screen credits include Battle Cry (1955), The Girl He Left Behind (1956), Gunman's Walk (1958), Damn Yankees (1958), Polyester (1981), and Lust in the Dust (1985). Hunter also had a music career in the late 1950s; in 1957, he released the no. 1 hit single "Young Love". Hunter's 2005 autobiography, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, was a New York Times bestseller.

American singer, dancer, actor, and film and television producer

American screenwriter

American singer-songwriter, actor, and record producer

American actor and blogger

American actor (1955–2022)

American screenwriter, director, and producer (born 1965)

Colman Jason Domingo is an American actor, playwright and director. Prominent on both screen and stage since the 2010s, Domingo has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards and two Tony Awards. Time magazine named him among the 100 most influential people in the world in 2024.

American writer, artist, and illustrator (1925–2000)

American playwright and novelist (1913–1973)

American filmmaker (1927–2023)

British-American philosopher and writer

American puppeteer (born 1960)

American stage director and playwright (1941–2025)

American film director

American songwriter and producer