Gay memoirists

American playwright (1911–1983)

American actor (born 1973)

Sir Stephen John Fry is an English actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He began his career on the sketch comedy series Alfresco (1983–1984) and the sitcom Blackadder (1986–1989), before gaining recognition as part of the comedy duo Fry and Laurie alongside Hugh Laurie, appearing together in A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1989–1995) and Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993). His later television roles include Kingdom (2007–2009), Bones (2007–2017), and It's a Sin (2021). Fry was the original host of the comedy panel show QI (2003–2016), for which he was nominated for six British Academy Television Awards. In 2006, the British public ranked Fry number 9 in ITV's poll of TV's 50 Greatest Stars.

American politician (born 1982)

English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer (1899–1973)

English-American novelist (1904-1986)

British musician (born 1961)

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

American Olympic springboard and platform diver

American journalist (born 1967)

former mayor of New York City (1924-2013)

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

American singer-songwriter, actor, and record producer

American author and literary critic (born 1942)

British film director and artist (1942-1994)

John Garvin Weir is an American television commentator and retired figure skater. He is a two-time Olympian, the 2008 World bronze medalist, a two-time Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, the 2001 World Junior Champion, and a three-time U.S. National champion (2004–2006). He was the youngest U.S. National champion since 1991, in 2006 the first skater to win U.S. Nationals three times in a row since Brian Boitano in the late 1980s, and the first American to win Cup of Russia in 2007.

American novelist and LGBT essayist (1940–2025)

American composer and lyricist (1931-2019)

American YouTuber

American playwright, theatre director and screenwriter (1917–2011)

Czech novelist and writer (1923–1994)

American radio and television talk show host

American historian

former Governor of New Jersey

British actor, writer and theatre director (1949–2021)

American musician

American YouTube personality

Canadian writer (1930–2002)

French writer (1923-2005)

American film director and writer

American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and AIDS activist (1954-1992)

American journalist

English writer and editor (1896-1967)

Don Renaldo Lemon-Clark is an American television journalist best known for being a host on CNN from 2014 until 2023. He anchored weekend news programs on local television stations in Alabama and Pennsylvania during his early days as a journalist. Lemon worked as a news correspondent for NBC on its programming, such as Today and NBC Nightly News.

Italian actor

American pornographic actor (1946-2009)

Polish writer, political activist (1902–1969)

American lawyer, businessman, model, actor and militar

Russian diplomat and memoirist

English food writer, journalist and broadcaster

Belfast-born film director (1895-1986)

American poet and memoirist

American author and LGBTQ activist

American writer

American writer (1933–2011)

American and Canadian writer,actor, civil rights activist and retired pro athlete

American pornographic actor and writer (1961-1998)

Spanish-born American poet (born 1968)

CEO of the Council on Foundations

American LGBT rights and AIDS activist

Canadian writer (1939–2019)

American actor and painter

Iranian LGBT human rights activist

British singer and actor (1918–2005)

British polymath (1872–1953)

American writer (1945–1995)

Dutch journalist (1925–2004)

English poet (1907–1987)

American teacher, writer, and LGBT+ activist

Canadian playwright