Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 02:14:53 -0500
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 20:55:47 GMT
Message-Id: <avcholt.593.2D7F8953@amber.indstate.edu>

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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

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    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