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LGBT History

The Oxford DNB includes the most significant, influential or notorious figures who shaped British history. Throughout the month of June we honour the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens during Pride Month.

Click on the portraits and names below to read their full stories.

Ackland, Mary Kathleen Macrory- [pseud. Valentine Ackland] (1906–1969), poet

Brooks [née Goddard], (Beatrice) Romaine Mary (1874–1970), painter and lesbian icon

Carpenter, Edward (1844–1929), campaigner for homosexual equality and socialist writer

Chapman, Graham (1941–1989), comedian and writer

Horsfall, Allan (1927–2012), gay rights campaigner

Jarman, (Michael) Derek Elworthy (1942–1994), film-maker, painter, and campaigner for homosexual rights

The Ladies of Llangollen: Butler, Lady (Charlotte) Eleanor (1739–1829) and Ponsonby, Sarah (1755–1831)

Lister, Anne (1791–1840), diarist and traveller

Mercury, Freddie [formerly Faroukh Bulsara] (1946–1991), singer and song-writer

Turing, Alan Mathison (1912–1954), mathematician and computer scientist

Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills (1854–1900), writer

Wright, Anthony Edgar Gartside [pseud. Antony Grey] (1927–2010), gay rights campaigner

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date: 22 January 2021

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