Nora D. Bashear asked for assistance in identifying "examples of well know gay and lesbian persons who have been notable in the past in the areas of science, government, literature, humanities, music, etc with wide name recognition" for use in a talk to be given to high school students. Here are my nominations, in no particular order: Leonard Bernstein - music Moms Mabley - music Peter Ilyich Tschaikovsky - music Cole Porter - music Gertrude Stein - literature Botticelli (sandro) - art Alice B. Toklas - literature Caravaggio - art Eudora Welty - literature Donatello - art Kate Millett - literature Leonardo da Vinci - science/art Audre Lorde - literature Michelangelo Buonarrotti - art Radclyffe Hall - literature Andy Warhol - art Natalie Clifford Barney - humanities Rosa Bonheur - art Barney Frank - govt Alexander The Great - govt Frank Bauman - govt H. Havelock Ellis - philosophy Harvey Milk - govt John Addington Symonds - philosophy Howard Brown - govt Bayard Rustin - govt Alan Turing - science/math Sir Francis Bacon - science Benjamin Banneker - science/math George Washington Carver - agriculture John Maynard Keynes - economics Nikola Tesla - science Langston Hughes - literature Willa Cather - literature Dag Hammarskjold- international politics/govt Edward II (1284-1327) govt James I (1566-1625) govt ---yes, the very same King James who commissioned the update of the Bible which now bears his name Sir Noel Coward - literature Christina, Queen of Sweden James Baldwin - literature Hans Christian Andersen - literature Oscar Wilde - literature Virginia Woolf - literature Walt Whitman - literature Miguel de Cervantes - literature Marcel Proust - humanities Colette - literature David Kopay - sports Billie Jean King - sports Martina Navratilova - sports That should casue a few jaws to drop to the ground (if the high school students know who they are)! "So Many Books, So Little Time" (T-shirt found in WaldenBooks) * * * * Gary Klein, Business Librarian, Univ of Toledo * * P.O.Box 12650 / Toledo OH 43606 * * WORK: 419-537-2629 HOME: 419-243-2740 * BITNET: fac2813@uoft01 FAX: 419-537-2726 B4 t+ w- g s+ k INTERNET: fac2813@uoft01.utoledo.edu