Rowtow’s Top 15 Coolest Homosexuals of All Time

Last year we ran a Top 10 Coolest Homosexuals of All Time list, which was probably one of our best lists ever, so in honor of Pride Fest this weekend, I’m reprinting it, with some addendum to bring it to a Top 15:

1. John Waters (transgressive filmmaker, author and artist)
2. Alan Turing (father of computer science)
3. William S. Burroughs (author and drug enthusiast)
4. Andy Warhol (artist)
5. Freddie Mercury (frontman for the band Queen)
6. Clive Barker (author, creator of Hellraiser)
7. George Takei (actor, Mr. Sulu from Star Trek)
8. Chuck Palahniuk (author, “Fight Club“),
9. Rob Halford (metal god of the band Judas Priest)
10. Kenneth Anger (underground filmmaker, author of “Hollywood Babylon“)
11. Chip Kidd (graphic designer)
12. Robert Mapplethorpe (photographer)
13. Bret Easton Ellis (author, “Less Than Zero“, “American Psycho“)
14. David Sedaris (author, radio personality)
15. Dave Dictor (musician, Millions of Dead Cops)

Honorable Mentions:  Erasure, the Pet Shop Boys, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Liberace, The Village People, Leonard Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns,  Jean Cocteau, Tennesse Williams, Yukio Mishima, Harvey Milk, Rock Hudson, Perez Hilton, Alan Ginsburg, Truman Capote, Scott Thompson,