LGBT Heroes in the Arts Sciences

Oscar Wilde was a famous 19th century playwright, epigrammatist, poet, dandy and all around wit.

Samuel Johnson once said, “Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.” This quote well describes Langston Hughes. Langston was a gay African American man who grew up hearing things like, “Be like them white folks”.

James Baldwin was a famed African American novelist and essayist whose writings dealt with homosexual issues before the gay liberation movement.

Alan Turing was a brilliant scientist and mathematician who laid the theoretical groundwork for the first computer.

“The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity”

Alvin Ailey worked his way from a poor field worker to a famous choreographer.

Rudolph Nureyev was a legendary Russian ballet dancer.