Talk:List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people

Justification for This List

Why in the world does this intellectually depraved, flagrant, tabloidish, and breathtakingly silly list exist on Wikipedia? Why should it exist anywhere? For those who wish to waste their time enumerating the sexuality of well-known people, there's the National Enquirer and other tabloids. If this list can stand on intrinsic merit alone, then shouldn't Wikipedia have lists of notable bald men, men with one testicle, transgender (I'm too late), transgenders with one testicle, dwarfs, women with augmented breasts, people one shade darker than white, and people who feature any other attribute that are different in the eyes of bigots everywhere? The only Wikipedia context in which a mention of one's sexuality is potentially relevant is as part of a larger article about one's life and times as a whole. And in the event that you still feel good about maintaining and contributing to foolish lists like this one, perhaps you should bear in mind that jailing homosexuals, interning thousands of Japanese Americans, and killing millions of Jews entails compiling lists resembling this one.

I think Wikipedia users would be much better served by a list comprising all the sorts of things that bigots commonly turn their attention to. Finally, since I'm all but certain that it's important to those who must drum up a counter argument, I'm a 52-year-old heterosexual white guy.--174.192.31.150 (talk) 14:29, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

This list is based on self-identification and/or biographical evidence. If an actor says she's a lesbian, for example, or comes out as a lesbian in a public setting, the individual has chosen to make her sexual orientation known. If a person is deceased and there is historical documentation about his or her private life, it supports inclusion in the list. Adding a name to the list requires verification with reliable published sources. Readers, students, and academics who want to learn about or research gay, lesbian, and bisexual history would find this list useful.
Btw, I'm a lesbian. A homosexual female. (Old enough to remember when it was not easy to find information about other lesbians. There was no Internet and social media when I came out.) I find no offense in the existence of this no-nonsense list. Pyxis Solitary yak 15:39, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

I dont get why there is a list like this. Make a list of all straight people too then smh 85.226.197.134 (talk) 05:22, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Nobody gives a rat's ass what you don't get. There's a genuine reason why a list of LGBT people is warranted (it's information people are actually looking for), and a genuine reason why a list of all straight people would be unmaintainable (it would have to include upwards of 90 per cent of everybody who exists at all, and thus could never actually be completed), and not useful (people are already automatically assumed to be straight and cis until they've explicitly come out as anything else, so nobody needs a list of what everybody already just assumes to be true anyway), and sometimes even just plain wrong (there are still to this day people who swear up and down that Freddie Mercury was straight just because he was never officially open about his sexuality during his lifetime, and simply don't believe anything we've learned about his private life since he died.) So no, a list of LGBT people does not have to be matched with a list of heterosexual people, for the same reason that LGBT Pride day doesn't mean there needs to be a Straight Pride day too: every day is already straight pride day. You're not the voice of "reason" here for the purposes of SMH privileges, kiddo. Bearcat (talk) 15:45, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

You don't seriously mean to suggest that a list of all alphabet-soup persons is somehow maintainable in any fashion, do you? And who cares what anecdotes you have to share about Freddy Mercury. Nobody gives a rat's ass. Great to see such a friendly, helpful attitude from you in relation to a legitimate question, though. What happened to assuming good faith, kiddo? 67.8.71.61 (talk) 01:32, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

"Helpful" does not mean "must agree with you", sunshine. Sometimes it means "explain why you're wrong". Also, not my responsibility to give a rat's ass about whether you give a rat's ass about my correctness or not, either — I'm still correct, and you're still wrong, whether you like the fact or not. Bubbye! Bearcat (talk) 16:50, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Title not inclusive, needs change

I think the title of this page is not inclusive enough. It should be changed to "List of LGBTQ+ people" or similar, where people with other preferences or self identifications are properly represented.Thinker78 (talk) 19:20, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Indeed! Don't forget the pedos either, er, sorry, I mean "minor attracted persons!" A real page, incidentally. And I utterly adore the fact that there are seriously people arguing in favor of keeping it. 67.8.71.61 (talk) 01:33, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

"Minor attracted" having what, exactly, to do with LGBTQ? Bearcat (talk) 23:17, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Maybe the editor is referring to NAMBLA. If you came out in the 1970s–1980s and lived in NYC, SF, LA, or another major city, you would have seen a NAMBLA group in the Pride parade and in other gay events. Pederasts were a known segment of the gay male community and were kicked out only after lesbians began to rise in positions of leadership and influence within the gay rights movement. Pyxis Solitary (yak). L not Q. 11:25, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

Add singer Calum Scott to list of gay people

Please add singer, Calum Scott to your list of gay people.

https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/culture/calum-scott-interview/amp/ 2600:1700:CEE0:D120:30E7:BCC6:252:2BB8 (talk) 17:03, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

 Already done List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: Sa–Sc Cannolis (talk) 06:20, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 31 July 2023

"Please add the following people to your article: Pete Buttigieg, Andy Cohen, Tim Gunn, Sean Hayes, Neil Patrick Harris, Harvey Milk, Cassandra Peterson, Vincent Price, RuPaul. The source materials are the articles already within Wikipedia - they just need links to each entry" 70.125.42.213 (talk) 22:09, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

All are there Hyphenation Expert (talk) 23:15, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

All you need to do is use the [ A > Z ] alphabet links box located after the "dynamic list" sentence in the main page, or use the "List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: __" alphabet links; click on a letter of the alphabet and search for a name within the alphabetical page. At the top of each alphabetical page you will find an [ A > Z ] alphabet links box for other alphabetical pages. It's not difficult to do. Pyxis Solitary (yak yak). Ol' homo. 08:15, 1 August 2023 (UTC)