According to this assessment on bilerico.com, it’s a mixed bunch through history.
Authors, artists, politicians, civil rights leaders.
Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Abe Lincoln …
(On the floor with that last one? Well, sorry — I guess Abe freed his boyfriend’s trouser snake.)
Also, transgender influentials Sylvia Rivera and Christine Jorgensen.
And I’m in there, too — sort of.
After all, the members of ACT UP are listed as number 17, and I was one of them!
As for who numero uno is, you’ll have to click to see.
Hint: He was the subject of an Oscar-winning movie.