Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 02:14:53 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 20:55:47 GMT Message-Id: --- Forwarded message follows --- From: al715@yfn.ysu.edu (Tina M. Wood) Subject: Request for info: famous people with LGBTetc relatives Hello, all. I have been gearing up for this task for quite some time, and I feel that this is the time to do it. I am in the process of compiling a list of well-known people who have LGBTetc relatives. I ask for your help in this. It doesn't matter if the famous person (or their relative) is living or dead; also they can be related by blood or marriage or adoption or whatever (since definitions of family vary.) If you vaguely remember reading something somewhere, please pass that info along too--I may be able to find it since I work in a library. Also, if anyone out there has a copy of _They Gay Book of Lists_, I know there is a list in it of gay men who have/had gay brothers--could someone please send me the names on the list (neither I nor my library owns the book). Please include documentation of any submissions or at least an idea of where you might have heard or read it. As far as who belongs on the list: if a politician has made it known that they have queer relatives, I want them on the list if possible, no matter how small or obscure their jurisdiction. Other than that, it is a judgment call. Below is a list of those I could remember off the top of my head (I have probably left some out-- it's late here). Please send me additons! I will post the completed list when submissions stop coming in. I am compiling this list for several reasons. One is that I simply have not seen a similar list anywhere, and the information is very hard to locate since it is often a passing remark in an interview. Also I want it to be an illustration of how diverse the families we are born into are. Some phobes point to the kinds of families we come from as the reason we are queer--this list will help to stop that particular argument. Thanks in advance for your help! Here is the list so far. Note that there will likely be people you have never heard of on this list--I will fill in the information on their claims to fame later. Bella Abzug Roseanne Arnold Sonny Bono Garth Brooks Cher Morton Downey, Jr. Barry Goldwater Mary Griffith Dorothy Hadjys Bruce Hilton David Koresh Bill Kraus Madonna Robert Moshbacher Fred Peck Sen. Claiborne Pell Lynn Redgrave Vanessa Redgrave Oral Roberts Paul Rubens (Pee Wee Herman) Phyllis Schlafley Ally Sheedy Cybill Shepard John Silber Bp. Melvin Wheatley Oprah Winfrey Rep. Lynn Woosley Also, can anyone confirm these: Roy Romer, Grace Jones, Annie Lennox Thanks again! Tina W., who would be on the list herself if she were famous - Tina M. Wood ______ |"I distrust those people who know so well what al715@yfn.ysu.edu \ / |God wants them to do because I notice it always maire@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu |coincides with their own desires." and others \/ | --Susan B. Anthony