Ancient ancestors: Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum ; David and Jonathan ; Sappho ; Socrates ; Hadrian and Antinous ; Chen Weisong
From the middle ages to the enlightenment: Saints Sergius and Bacchus ; Aelred of Rievaulx ; Michelangelo Buonarroti ; Michel de Montaigne ; Antonio Rocco ; Benedetta Carlini ; Michael Sweerts ; Katherine Philips ; Frederick the Great ; Chevalier d'Eon
Founding fathers and mothers: Walt Whitman ; Edward Carpenter ; André Gide ; E.M. Forster ; Radclyffe Hall ; Christopher Isherwood
The fin-de-siècle and Belle Époque: Maximilian von Schwartzkoppen and Alessandro Panizzardi ; Oscar Wilde ; Wilhelm von Gloeden ; Sergei Diaghilev ; Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen ; Karol Szymanowski
Women who loved women: Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby ; Anne Lister ; Eva Gore-Booth ; Sylvia Townsend Warner ; Claude Cahun ; Suzy Solidor ; Annemarie Schwarzenbach ; Carson McCullers
Entanglements of sex and politics: Richard Schultz ; Federico García Lorca ; Newton Arvin ; Lilly Wust and Felice Schragenheim
Visions of male beauty: Eugène Jansson ; Magnus Enckell ; Donald Friend ; Alair Gomes ; Bhupen Khakhar
Love in the Levant: Abu Nuwas ; Constantine Cavafy ; T.E. Lawrence ; Yannis Tsarouchis ; Ali al-Jabri
Japonisme: Ihara Saikaku ; Nobuko Yoshiya ; William Plomer ; Yukio Mishima ; Tamotsu Yato
Diverse callings: John Henry Newman ; Rosa Bonheur ; Hubert Lyautey ; Frieda Belinfante ; Ronnie Kray ; Yves Saint Laurent
Radicals and activists: Magnus Hirschfeld ; Del Martin ; Harvey Milk ; Guy Hocquenghem ; Simon Nkoli
International lives in the modern era: Maharaja of Chhatarpur ; Edmund Backhouse ; Claude McKay ; Lionel Wendt ; Xuan Dieu ; Jean Sénac ; Shi Pei Pu ; Reinaldo Arenas
