Gay Men and Women Who Enriched the World

Plot

Cowan has written lively accounts of forty-seven men and women who offered outstanding contributions in different fields, ranging from mathematics and military strategy to art, philosophy, and economics. Each chapter is amusingly illustrated with a caricature by Michael Willhoite.

Contents:
Alexander the Great --
Plato --
Sappho --
Leonardo da Vinci --
Desiderius Erasmus --
Michelangelo --
Francis Bacon --
Christopher Marlowe --
Frederick the Great --
Madame de Staël --
Lord Byron --
Herman Melville --
Walt Whitman --
Horatio Alger Jr. --
Oscar Wilde --
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky --
Marcel Proust --
Willa Cather --
Colette --
Amy Lowell --
Gertrude Stein --
E.M. Forster --
Virginia Woolf --
John Maynard Keynes --
T.E. Lawrence --
Ludwig Wittgenstein --
Jean Cocteau --
Janet Flanner --
Bessie Smith --
Charles Laughton --
Noël Coward --
Marguerite Yourcenar --
Christopher Isherwood --
Laurence Olivier --
Elizabeth Bishop --
Tennessee Williams --
May Sarton --
Alan Turing --
Benjamin Britten --
Leonard Bernstein --
Pier Paolo Pasolini --
James Baldwin --
Yukio Mishima --
Andy Warhol --
Barbara Jordan --
Rudolf Nureyev --
Michael Bennett.