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Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
Michel Foucault
French philosopher (1926–1984)
W. H. Auden
British-American poet (1907–1973)
Allen Ginsberg
American poet and writer (1926–1997)
Yuval Noah Harari
Israeli historian and author of popular science bestsellers
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
Magnus Hirschfeld
German physician and sexologist (1868–1935)
John Ashbery
poet from the United States of America (1927–2017)
Golo Mann
German-Swiss historian (1909-1994)
Bjørn Lomborg
Danish environmental economy author noted for his controversial views about climate change and resource scarcity
Samuel R. Delany
American author and literary critic (born 1942)
Kwame Anthony Appiah
British-American philosopher and writer
Anthony Blunt
British art historian and Soviet spy (1907-1983)
Allan Bloom
American philosopher, classicist, and academician (1930–1992)
Alain LeRoy Locke
American philosopher and writer (1885–1954)
Krzysztof Charamsa
Polish priest
Claude Vivier
Canadian composer (1948–1983)
John Boswell
American historian
Carlo Masi
Italian mathematics lecturer and pornographic actor
Maurice Bowra
English classical scholar, literary critic and academic (1898–1971)
James Holmes
Dutch author and poet (1924–1986)
Hans Mayer
German literary scholar (1907–2001)
Mark Adamo
American composer and librettist (born 1962)
Guy Hocquenghem
French philosopher, novelist, essayist and journalist (1946–1988)
Uzi Even
Israeli professor and former politician
Eric Bentley
American playwright (1916–2020)
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
British historian and political activist (1862–1932)
Francis Otto Matthiessen
American academic (1902–1950)
Herman Tjeenk Willink
Dutch former politician (born 1942)
R. H. Barlow
American anthropologist (1918–1951)
Maurice Berger
American art historian (1956–2020)
Isaac Julien
British artist and film director (born 1960)
Charles A. Reich
American lawyer (1928–2019)
David M. Halperin
American academic
Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet
Quaker, sinologist (1873–1944)
Francisco X. Alarcón
American poet and faculty at the University of California, Davis (1954-2016)
Richard Blanco
Spanish-born American poet (born 1968)
Wade MacLauchlan
Canadian legal academic, university administrator, politician, community leader and 32nd Premier of Prince Edward Island
Frank Bidart
American poet
Simon LeVay
British-American neuroscientist (born 1943)
Maarten J.M. Christenhusz
Dutch botanist
James Cantor
American-Canadian sexologist (1966-)
Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
British politician, academic and journalist (born 1963)
Charles Nolte
American actor (1923-2010)
Martin Dannecker
German sociologist, sexologist and LGBT essayist
Shinobu Orikuchi
Japanese writer and academic (1887–1953)
Jeffrey Weeks
British historian and sociologist
Michael Warner
American literary critic, social theorist
Leo Bersani
Literary theorist and emeritus university professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley.
Richard Dyer
British film scholar
Ramchandra Siras
Indian linguist and author (1948–2010)
David Hull
American philosopher (1935–2010)
Jonathan Ned Katz
historian (born 1938)
Luca Trevisan
Italian computer scientist (1971–2024)
Newton Arvin
literary critic (1900–1963)
Louis Crompton
LGBT scholar
Rüdiger Lautmann
German sociologist and LGBT researcher
Roger Brown
American social psychologist (1925–1997)
John D'Emilio
American historian
Gustavo Melella
Argentine politician