LGBT History Month
Claiming our history, celebrating our present and creating our future!
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Famous LGBT People

Some of the people illustrated in this section may not have identified in their lifetime as LGB or T, terms that would not have had the same meaning for them. We include them here because we believe they had an experience of or interest in same-sex love. Would you like to suggest a figure for this section of the site? Please contact us here

 
    NPGx6928 Sir Noël Coward by Dorothy Wilding © Tom Hustler / National   NPG5824 Quentin Crisp by Marguerite Evans © Marguerite Evans / National   Florence Nightingale by Edward Kilburn, published by Henry Lenthall © National Portrait Gallery, London   Oscar Wilde by Elliott & Fry date: 1881 © National Portrait Gallery, London   Virginia Woolf (neé Stephen) by George Charles Beresford date: 1902 © National Portrait Gallery, London
     
   
Marguerite Radclyffe Hall by Howard Coster copyright National Portrait Gallery, London
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth by Bassano Date: 11 August 1929 copyright National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt copyright National Portrait Gallery, London
William Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout copyright National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Edward ('T.E.') Lawrence by Augustus Edwin John Date: circa 1929 copyright National Portrait Gallery, London
     
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