2 volumes (xix, 557 pages) : illustrations (mostly color), portraits ; 28 cm.

Great lives from history

Great lives from history.

Salem Press.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Complete List of Contents -- Volume 1 -- Publisher's Note -- Editor's Introduction -- Contributors -- Complete List of Contents -- Zackie Achmat -- Shadi Amin -- Anna Lytical -- W.H. Auden -- Jesus Ociel Baena Saucedo -- Gilbert Baker -- Sara Josephine Baker -- James Baldwin -- Tammy Baldwin -- Djuna Barnes -- Richard Barnfield -- Ben A. Barres -- William Beckford -- Aphra Behn -- Jeremy Bentham -- Leonard Bernstein -- Georgina Beyer -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Elizabeth Bowen -- David Bowie -- Boy George -- Jennifer Finney Boylan -- Rita Mae Brown -- Tituss Burgess -- Judith Butler -- Pete Buttigieg -- Lord Byron -- Margarethe Cammermeyer -- Truman Capote -- Brandi Carlile -- Wendy Carlos -- Rachel Carson -- Derricia Castillo-Salazar -- Willa Cather -- Constantine P. Cavafy -- Jason Collins -- Lynn Conway -- Tim Cook -- Anderson Cooper -- Roberta Cowell -- Laverne Cox -- Colleen Coyne -- Hart Crane -- Countee Cullen -- Miley Cyrus -- James Dale -- Lee Daniels -- Ellen DeGeneres -- Elena Delle Donne -- Nick Denton -- Emily Dickinson -- Marlene Dietrich -- Michael Dillon -- Fran Drescher -- Maureen Duffy -- Lauren Esposito -- Melissa Etheridge -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson -- Harvey Fierstein -- Jim Fitterling -- Beth Ford -- Katherine V. Forrest -- E.M. Forster -- Barney Frank -- Frieda Fraser -- Jean Genet -- Andre Gide -- Allen Ginsberg -- Barbara Gittings -- Manvendra Singh Gohil -- Thom Gunn -- Hardy Haberman -- Radclyffe Hall -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Alan L. Hart -- Harry Hay -- H.D. -- Lillian Hellman -- Essex Hemphill -- Agnes Torres Hernandez -- Patricia Highsmith -- Magnus Hirschfeld -- A.E. Housman -- Chris Hughes -- Langston Hughes -- Henry James -- David Jay -- Caitlyn Jenner -- Elton John -- Marsha P. Johnson -- Janis Joplin -- Christine Jorgensen -- Frank Kameny -- David Kato -- Billie Jean King -- Larry Kramer -- Tony Kushner -- Lady Gaga -- Selma Lagerlof.

k. d. lang -- Cyndi Lauper -- D.H. Lawrence -- David Leavitt -- Pedro Lemebel -- Bryan Lessard -- Lil Nas X -- Audre Lorde -- Greg Louganis -- Amy Lowell -- Volume 2 -- Complete List of Contents -- Rachel Maddow -- Madonna -- Jeanne Manford -- Irshad Manji -- Chelsea Manning -- Katherine Mansfield -- Patricio Manuel -- Ricky Martin -- Carson McCullers -- Val McDermid -- Claude McKay -- Ian McKellen -- Kate McKinnon -- Herman Melville -- Freddie Mercury -- George Michael -- Harvey Milk -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Wentworth Miller -- Andrew Moffat -- Janelle Monae -- Indya Moore -- Joel Gustave Nana Ngongang -- Carl Nassib -- Michael Nava -- Martina Navratilova -- Dejan Nebrigic -- Ngahuia Te Awekotuku -- Rosie O'Donnell -- Dede Oetomo -- Frank O'Hara -- Yotam Ottolenghi -- Wilfred Owen -- Elliot Page -- Candace Parker -- Sarah Paulson -- Andreja Pejic -- Billy Porter -- Marcel Proust -- Yair Qedar -- Zachary Quinto -- Ma Rainey -- Andrew Rannells -- Megan Rapinoe -- Cheryl Reeve -- Mary Renault -- Adrienne Rich -- Sally Ride -- Sylvia Rivera -- Robin Roberts -- Brandan Robertson -- Martine Aliana Rothblatt -- Abby Rubenfeld -- RuPaul -- Bayard Rustin -- Yves Saint Laurent -- Sappho -- Jose Sarria -- Jackie Shane -- Gopi Shankar Madurai -- Alireza Shojaian -- Sia -- Bill Siksay -- Charles Silverstein -- Bessie Smith -- Sam Smith -- Funeka Soldaat -- Stephen Spender -- Abby Stein -- Gertrude Stein -- Breanna Stewart -- Wanda Sykes -- John Addington Symonds -- George Takei -- Peter Tatchell -- Diana Taurasi -- Holland Taylor -- William J. "Bill" Thom -- Alan Turing -- Karl Heinrich Ulrichs -- Urvashi Vaid -- Gore Vidal -- Hida Viloria -- Bruce Raymond Voeller -- Lana and Lilly Wachowski -- Alice Walker -- Horace Walpole -- Abby Wambach -- Edmund White -- Walt Whitman -- Oscar Wilde -- Michael K. Williams -- Natalie Williams -- Tennessee Williams -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester -- Angus Wilson -- Edith Windsor -- Evan Wolfson -- Virginia Woolf -- Jean Wyllys -- Xian -- Appendixes -- Timeline of LGBTQ+ History -- Chronological List of Entries -- Bibliography -- Mediagraphy -- Electronic Resources -- Indexes -- Geographical Index -- Area of Achievement Index -- Subject Index.

A two-volume set that features 210 biographies covering a curated selection of individuals important to the LGBTQ+ community throughout history.

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Lesbians -- Biography.

Gay men -- Biography.

Bisexual people -- Biography.

Transsexuals -- Biography.

Lesbians -- Biography.

Gay men -- Biography.

Bisexual people -- Biography.

Transsexual people -- Biography.

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