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This is a list of people and characters described or narrativized as gay icons by contemporary or historical media.

Historical figures

Saint Sebastian, history's first recorded male gay icon

Sappho of Lesbos

Archaic Greek poet known for composing sentimental lyrics about women. Perceived homoerotism in her poems have led to her becoming a symbol for lesbianism,[1] with her name and home island inspiring the terms sapphic and lesbian respectively. Her sexuality, and the themes in her poetry have been extensively discussed and reinterpreted by scholars.[2]

Saint Sebastian

The 3rd century Christian martyr Saint Sebastian is one of the earliest known gay icons,[3] due to his depiction in artwork as a beautiful, agonised young man.[4] Historian Richard A. Kaye states that "Contemporary gay men have seen in Sebastian at once a stunning advertisement for homosexual desire (indeed, a homoerotic ideal), and a prototypical portrait of a tortured closet case."[5]

In the 1890s, Irish poet Oscar Wilde, himself also called a gay icon,[6] was incarcerated and exiled for his sexuality, and adopted the pseudonym "Sebastian Melmoth" after the saint.[7] Gay playwright Tennessee Williams used the saint's name for the martyred character Sebastian in his 1957 play, Suddenly Last Summer.[8]

Joan of Arc

See also: Cross-dressing, gender identity, and sexuality of Joan of Arc

The 15th century martyr and patron saint of France Joan of Arc has become a queer icon in more recent years

transmasculine and lesbian communities.[14] Jane Anderson described Joan of Arc as a queer icon and symbol for young women.[15]

Marie Antoinette

Prior to the

Duchesse de Polignac. While the rumors of Antoinette's sexuality were unfounded, they led to her being interpreted as an early lesbian icon in works by gay authors, such as Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928) and Jean Genet's The Maids (1947).[16]

Modern celebrities

Judy Garland

See also: Judy Garland as a gay icon
The Wizard of Oz
(1939)

Late singer and actress Judy Garland was immensely popular among gay men due to her camp sensibilities, and is considered "the quintessential pre-Stonewall gay icon".[17]

In the 1950s, the phrase "

The Wizard of Oz.[18]

Cher

See also: Cher § As a gay icon

Cher has been ranked in diverse listicles of the most prominent gay icons.[19][20][21]

Cher's eldest child,

transgender man
, and his transition from female to male was legally finalized on May 6, 2010.

Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey has demonstrated allyship since the early beginnings of her career. She has shown her love for her LGBTQ+ fans numerous times, including a 2003 performance at G-A-Y in London.[22] Furthermore, Carey also won a GLAAD award for Allyship.[23]

Kate Bush

Wuthering Heights" topped the charts and became a global success. The music video for the song in which she dances in the moors in a red dress has become iconic among the LGBTQ community. One of her less influential albums, Lionheart (1978), featured a song titled "Kashka From Baghdad", which regaled to the listener the tale of a gay couple living together in sin, which was quite revolutionary for its time.[24] Since 2016, Kate Bush fans have gathered in locations all over the world and taken to recreate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" video in an event dubbed The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever. Men and women in attendance to the event don red dresses or red in general and recreate the choreography observed in the video as a tribute. Bush, who has seen a clip of one of the events, described the tribute by her fans as "very touching and sweet".[25]

Madonna

Main article: Madonna as a gay icon
Madonna celebrating Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019

Pop musician

The Advocate's Steve Gdula commented that "back in the 1980s and even the early 1990s, the release of a new Madonna video or single was akin to a national holiday, at least among her gay fans."[28] Gdula also stated that during this period, concurrent with the rise of the AIDS epidemic, "when other artists tried to distance themselves from the very audience that helped their stars to rise, Madonna only turned the light back on her gay fans and made it burn all the brighter."[28]

Kylie Minogue

Palm Springs White Party in 2018, WorldPride 2019 in New York City and headlined the opening ceremony concert at WorldPride 2023 in Sydney
.

Minogue encourages her gay icon status with comments including "I am not a traditional gay icon. There's been no tragedy in my life, only tragic outfits" and "My gay audience has been with me from the beginning ... they kind of adopted me." Her status as a gay icon has been attributed to her music, fashion sense and career longevity. Author Constantine Chatzipapatheodoridis wrote about Minogue's appeal to gay men in Strike a Pose, Forever: The Legacy of Vogue... and observed that she "frequently incorporates camp-inflected themes in her extravaganzas, drawing mainly from the disco scene, the S/M culture, and the burlesque stage." In Beautiful Things in Popular Culture (2007), Marc Brennan stated that Minogue's work "provides a gorgeous form of escapism". Minogue has explained that she first became aware of her gay audience in 1988, when several drag queens performed to her music at a Sydney pub, and she later saw a similar show in Melbourne. She said that she felt "very touched" to have such an "appreciative crowd", and this encouraged her to perform at gay venues throughout the world, as well as headlining the 1994 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Minogue has one of the largest gay followings in the world.

The Golden Girls

Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty - the four main stars of The Golden Girls - each had a long and rich history of working with and for LGBT causes and each was an outspoken supporter whenever asked in interviews. The show itself also featured a number of gay-centric episodes, each portraying the queer character with kindness and compassion. The majority of these episodes were almost never made due to hesitation on the part of the network, NBC, to produce episodes focusing on homosexuality, with the four actresses often fighting the network to see them produced.

Bea Arthur had previously worked on her own television show,

LGBTQ+ youths.[33][34]

Meanwhile, as a supporter and advocate of LGBT rights, Betty White said in 2010, "If a couple has been together all that time – and there are gay relationships that are more solid than some heterosexual ones – I think it's fine if they want to get married. I don't know how people can get so anti-something. Mind your own business, take care of your affairs, and don't worry about other people so much." In a 2011 interview, she revealed that she always knew her close friend Liberace was gay and that she sometimes accompanied him to premieres to help him hide it.

Rue McClanahan was also a supporter of

gay rights, including advocating for same-sex marriage in the United States. In January 2009, she appeared in the star-studded Defying Inequality: The Broadway Concert—A Celebrity Benefit for Equal Rights.[35]

Estelle Getty was said by friends Harvey Fierstein and Rosie O'Donnell, both notable members of the LGBT community, to have been heavily involved in HIV/AIDS activism and had lost close friends and family to the disease, among them her nephew Steven Scher (1962–1992), whom she cared for after he was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, and her Torch Song Trilogy co-star Court Miller (1952–1986).[36] She later helped to open a hospice for AIDS patients in Greensboro, North Carolina, her nephew's hometown, in 1996, called Beacon Place, which was still in operation as of 2023.[37]

Janet Jackson

Main article: Janet Jackson as a gay icon
Janet Jackson, 1998

Janet Jackson garnered a substantial LGBT following during the 1990s with her sixth studio album The Velvet Rope (1997).[38][39][40] The album was honored by the National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum and received the award for Outstanding Music Album at the 9th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in 1998 for its songs that dealt with sexual orientation and homophobia.[41] On 26 April 2008, she received the Vanguard Award—a media award from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation—to honor her work in the entertainment industry in promoting equality for LGBT people.[41]

GLAAD President Neil G. Giuliano commented, "Ms. Jackson has a tremendous following inside the LGBT community and out, and having her stand with us against the defamation that LGBT people still face in our country is extremely significant."[41][42]

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga, who herself is bisexual, fought as an LGBT rights activist from the beginning of her career and has a large LGBT following.[43] She has fought against LGBT-related phobias, for marriage and adoption equality, the repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell law, the protection of transgender people.[43][44][45][46][47]

Diana, Princess of Wales

Highly regarded by the LGBT community due to her work with

bulimia have been cited as factors to which members of the LGBT community can mostly connect.[52][53] Writing for Them, David Levesley described Diana as "a symbol of the familial oppression many queer people know all too well," and added that "[queer people] admire her for how long she lasted in the face of a shitty situation. Is there anything more queer than a fabulous woman trapped in a bleak household?"[52] James Greig from Vice also held a similar viewpoint, stating that "her status as a tragic diva aside, it's undeniable that Diana made real, material changes to the lives of LGBT people – particularly through the work she did around AIDS."[53] In an article for Newsweek, Desmond O'Connor wrote that Diana's work with dying HIV+ gay men was crucial for reminding "the people of Great Britain that their 'untouchable' sons deserved to be loved."[54]

In 2009, a panel including Sir

Prince Harry accepted the award on behalf of his mother.[55][56]

Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John, famously known as Elton John, is perhaps one of the most famous, publicly queer musicians of all time. During 1976, he announced publicly that he was bisexual and remained open about his sexuality to present day, happily married to his husband David Furnish since 2014. Aside from his musical career, he is also the founder of the Elton John AIDS Foundation which was created to give support and aide to those in need as well as to "prevent infections, fight stigma and provide treatment with love, compassion and dignity for the most vulnerable groups affected by HIV around the world".[57]

Lea Salonga

In 2011,

The Advocate called Lea Salonga a "major gay icon" for being "very vocal in her support for LGBT equality, both here [the U.S.] and in her native Philippines."[58]

The song "

Typhoon Ondoy, Salonga referenced the National Equality March in Washington, D.C., and firmly stated, "I believe that every single human being has the fundamental right to marry whoever they want."[59] In February 2016, Salonga publicly criticized Filipino politician and former professional boxer Manny Pacquiao for his views on homosexuality and same-sex marriage.[60] Over the course of decades, Salonga has spoken and performed at several fundraising events for HIV/AIDS.[citation needed][61]

Fictional characters

Wonder Woman

See also: Wonder Woman § LGBT icon

Wolverine

See also: Wolverine (character) § Queer appeal and fandom

Although Wolverine has primarily been depicted as straight in mainstream Marvel continuity,[62] his relationships with male characters like Cyclops and Nightcrawler have been highlighted for homoerotic elements.[63][64][62] An alternate version of Wolverine featured in X-Treme X-Men (2012 – 2013) was depicted as gay and in a relationship with Hercules, two characters sharing an on-panel kiss in issue #10.[65][66] The character has proven popular with queer fans,[67] and has been described as a gay icon.[68][69]

He-Man

See also: He-Man as a gay icon

Since his creation, He-Man's homoeroticism, implied homosexuality, and adherence to multiple gay stereotypes has resulted in the character and show drawing a queer audience when the cartoon first aired,[70] with the character being viewed as a gay icon.[71][72]

Xena: Warrior Princess

See also: Xena: Warrior Princess § Influence on the lesbian community

fan base see Xena and Gabrielle as a couple and have embraced them as role models and lesbian icons.[73][74] Xena's popularity was successfully utilized by Subaru when trying to establish a healthy base of lesbian customers: one ad had a car with the license plate "XENA LVR" (Xena lover).[75]

A subject of much interest and debate among viewers is the question of whether Xena and Gabrielle are lovers.

gay rights.[76]

Many fans felt that the sexual nature of Xena and Gabrielle's relationship was cemented by an interview given by Lucy Lawless to Lesbian News magazine in 2003. Lawless stated that after the series finale, where Gabrielle revives Xena with a mouth-to-mouth water transfer filmed to look like a full kiss, she had come to believe that Xena and Gabrielle's relationship was "definitely gay". "There was always a, 'Well, she might be or she might not be' but when there was that drip of water passing between their lips in the very final scene, that cemented it for me. Now it wasn't just that Xena was bisexual and kinda liked her gal pal and they kind of fooled around sometimes, it was 'Nope, they're married, man'."[78]

The Babadook

The Babadook's status as a gay icon is due mostly to a clerical mistake made by Netflix. In 2016, the 2014 horror movie was accidentally added to Netflix's LGBT movie section. This quickly became an in-joke in the online queer community. The discussion around the Babadook being queer quickly gained steam with people suggesting that hunting a white suburban family is a radical act and that "it seeks to break down the borders of acceptability and establishment",[79] and that these radical acts are seen as inherently queer. Others have suggested that the Babadook and the movie are queer representation because "the movie deals with themes of isolation, depression, and an inability to be oneself".[80]

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