LGBTQ+ Figures in History and Today (Display/Fact files cards)

Display to highlight 44 significant LGBTQA+ people both historical and alive today. People in the entertainment industry, art, activism, science, and politics.

Print to display for Pride Month 2022 or to create a booklet to help educate students about the many significant people in history who belonged to the LGBT community.

(PDF A4 pages in LANDSCAPE with border). All images were free from copyright when sourced.

Includes 44 people of the world with images and short descriptions of each.

1. Alan Turing - mathematician and code breaker
2. Xavier Bettel - Prime Minister of Luxembourg
3. Laverne Cox - Actress and advocate
4. Harvey Milk - Politician
5. Rev. Troy Perry - Founder of MCC Church
6. Lili Elbe - Danish artist
7. Keith Haring - Pop artist
8. Lily and Lana Wachowski - directors
9. Marsha P. Johnson - Activist
10. Oscar Wilde - poet and playwright
11. Anne Lister - Diarist
12. Alexander the Great - Military leader, King
13. Sappho - Archaic Greek Poet
14. Johanna Sigurdardottir - Prime Minister of Iceland
15. Barbara Gittings - Activist
16. Josephine Baker - Actress, singer
17. Freddie Mercury - singer for Queen
18. Zanele Muholi - Artist
19. Ana Brnabic - Prime Minister of Serbia
20. Audre Lorde - Writer, civil rights activist
21. Elton John - Singer, pianist
22. Emily Dickinson - Poet
23. Billie Holiday - Jazz vocalist
24. Billie Jean King - Tennis player
25. Hannah Gadsby - Comedian
26. RuPaul - TV personality
27. Gladys Bently - blues singer
28. George Michael - singer
29. Alan L. Hart - Doctor
30. Lil Nas X - Rapper
31. Andy Warhol - Pop Artist
32. Sylvia Rivera - activist
33. We’Wha - Native American Ihamana
34. Edie Windsor - Activist
35. Mark Ashton - britsh activist
36. Christine Jorgensen - transgender activist
37. Leo Varadkar - Prime Minister of Ireland
38. Elliot Page - transgender actor
39. Sally Ride - astronaut
40. James Baldwin - writer
41. Virginia Woolf - writer
42. Christina, Queen of Sweden
43. King Ludwig II of Bavaria
44. Jean-Michel Basquiat - Neo-expressionism artist