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Alexander McQueen
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He doesn't care who he upsets. He's turned down the Palace and slagged-off Madonna. No wonder he's called fashion's "bad boy".
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Boy George | |
He once told everybody he preferred a cup of tea to sex, has survived a serious drug problem to become a club DJ and mixer.
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Clint Walters | |
Diagnosed HIV positive when he was 17, Clint worked with today's teenagers and talks to them about safe sex.
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Darren Johnson | |
Gay and green, Darren spearheaded reforms in the first London Assembly as an advisor to Ken Livingstone.
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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'." We celebrate our favourite breeder boy.
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David Hockney | |
One of the UK's greatest artists - "You can take the boy out of Bradford but you can't take Bradford out of the boy."
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Derek Jarman | |
No topic was ever taboo for the fiercely non-conformist Derek Jarman, "I've only ever done what I've wanted."
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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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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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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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George Michael | |
Ladies and Gentlemen "I feel stupid, reckless and weak". The International Star and Reluctant Icon who's loved by us all.
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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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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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Ian McKellen | |
"I am one of them." The words of the accomplished actor who came out at 49. Nowadays he's known as a God not a Monster.
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Jimmy Somerville | |
The small town boy with the distinctive falsetto voice, a political conscience and a determined will to put right the world.
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Joe Orton | |
"I'm an acquired taste" said Orton as a double entendre. Edna Welthorpe, (Mrs) would have written to say she didn't approve.
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Kenneth Williams | |
Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it "In For Me!" The Carry On Comedian who thought those films he starred in were "crap".
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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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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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Oscar Wilde | |
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about", said one of our greatest writers.
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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 this gay rights campaigner.
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"Music represents the good side of mankind." Neil and Chris the Northern Boys who became famous for the West End Girls.
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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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Rupert Everett | |
The star of stage & screen who said, "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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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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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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