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Alexander McQueen
He doesn't care who he upsets. He's turned down the Palace and slagged-off Madonna. No wonder he's known as fashion's "bad boy".
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Ian McKellen
"I am one of them." The accomplished actor who came out at 49. Nowadays he's known as a God not a Monster.
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Boy George
He once told everybody he preferred a cup of tea to sex, has survived a serious drug problem and is now a club DJ and mixer.
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Jimmy Somerville
The small town boy with the distinctive falsetto voice, a political conscience and a will to right the world.
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Clint Walters
Diagnosed HIV positive when he was 17, Clint now works with today's teenagers and talks to them about safe sex.
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Joe Orton
"I'm an acquired taste" said Orton as a double entendre. Edna Welthorpe, (Mrs) would most definitely not approve.
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Darren Johnson
Gay and green, Darren is spearheading reforms in the new London Assembly as an advisor to Ken Livingstone.
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Kenneth Williams
Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it "In For Me!" The Carry On man who thought the films he starred in were "crap".
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David Beckham
"He's a big flirt. He walks around the kitchen going 'I'm a gay icon, I'm a gay icon'." OutUK pays tribute to its favourite breeder boy.
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Michael Barrymore
If there was a prize for "the most troubled TV entertainer" Michael Barrymore would win - it's the only award he has yet to collect.
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David Hockney
"You can take the boy out of Bradford but you can't take Bradford out of the boy."
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Nigel Hawthorne
"I didn't really know who I was, until I was middle-aged", claimed Sir Nigel Hawthorne, King George III and civil servant Sir Humphrey Appleby.
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Derek Jarman
No topic was taboo for the fiercely non-conformist Jarman, "I've only ever done what I've wanted."
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Oscar Wilde
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
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Dirk Bogarde
He was more than a pretty face, and his fans were once so eager to get into his pants that he use to sew up his flies at premieres.
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Peter Tatchell
"Pure poison" and "enemy of the people" are just some of the kinder things to have been written about him.
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Elton John
'I'm Still Standing' but at one time this now knighted superstar nearly wasn't because of drink and drugs.
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Pet Shop Boys
"Music represents the good side of mankind." Neil and Chris the Northern Boys who became famous for West End Girls.
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Freddie Mercury
"The most important thing, darling, is to live a fabulous life. As long as it's fabulous I don't care how long I live."
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Quentin Crisp
Dennis Pratt, the writer who became famous for a naked civil servant. He made himself his own man - by not looking like one.
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George Michael
Ladies and Gentlemen "I feel stupid, reckless and weak". The International Star and Reluctant Icon.
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Rupert Everett
"If I had to wear a banner and had to write something on it, I would be writing 'actor', not 'homosexual'."
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Graham Norton
Camp and cruel, he doesn't really mean to upset people. "Every comic wants to be liked. I'm no exception to that al all."
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Stephen Fry
"I knew I was gay the moment I was born. I looked up into my mother's face, and said 'That's the last time I ever go up one of those!'."
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Homer J Simpson
He's the greatest TV character of all time. He's an anti- hero, a small-screen icon, and an all-American oaf. He's one of us.
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Stephen Gateley
It was every boyband lover's dream come true when the Boyzone star came out and told the world about his Dutch boyfriend.
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