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.
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Ackland, Mary Kathleen Macrory- [pseud. Valentine Ackland] (1906–1969), poet
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Brooks [née Goddard], (Beatrice) Romaine Mary (1874–1970), painter and lesbian icon
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Carpenter, Edward (1844–1929), campaigner for homosexual equality and socialist writer
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Chapman, Graham (1941–1989), comedian and writer
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Horsfall, Allan (1927–2012), gay rights campaigner
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Jarman, (Michael) Derek Elworthy (1942–1994), film-maker, painter, and campaigner for homosexual rights
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The Ladies of Llangollen: Butler, Lady (Charlotte) Eleanor (1739–1829) and Ponsonby, Sarah (1755–1831)
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Lister, Anne (1791–1840), diarist and traveller
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Mercury, Freddie [formerly Faroukh Bulsara] (1946–1991), singer and song-writer
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Turing, Alan Mathison (1912–1954), mathematician and computer scientist
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Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills (1854–1900), writer
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Wright, Anthony Edgar Gartside [pseud. Antony Grey] (1927–2010), gay rights campaigner
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