Ian Harvey (2 children)

Lt. Col. Ian Douglas Harvey (1914-1987) was a Conservative MP and minister until involved in a minor sex scandal. He was a man of great charm and in later life he became Vice-President of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality. He married and with his wife he had two daughters.

Elizabeth de Gramont (2 children)

Elizabeth de Gramont, Duchess of Clermont-Tonnerre (1875-1954) was a writer and diarist and the long-term lover of the Paris-based American lesbian writer and apologist, Natalie Barney. She was openly bisexual and married to Philibert, Duke of Clermont-Tonnerre, with whom she had two daughters.

Leonard Bernstein (3 children)

Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) was an American conductor and composer, most memorably of "West Side Story". He was a lifelong homosexual and openly so in his mature years. He married and with his wife, Felicia, he had two sons and a daughter.

Konstantin Romanov (9 children)

Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia (1858-1915) was a grandson of Tsar Nicholas I. He was a poet and writer using the pen name "KR". The posthumous publication of parts of his diaries revealed his life-long bisexuality. He married Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg and they had five sons and four daughters.

Marlon Brando (8 children)

Marlon Brando (1924-2004) is often considered to be the greatest USA film star ever. He was quite open about his relationships and sex with men. David Niven records having found him with Laurence Olivier (see below). Brando fathered eight children by different mothers and adopted three others

Alan Bates (2 children)

Sir Alan Bates (1934-2003), was an English actor, who was much admired for his rugged looks and his important performances in important films such as "Women in Love" and "The Go-Between". He was bisexual all his life, though he married and had two sons.

Alec Guinness (1 child)

Sir Alec Guinness (1914-2000) was perhaps the best-loved actor of his generation. His homosexual life is well documented. He married and had a son.

Michael Redgrave (3 children)

Sir Michael Redgrave (1908-1985) was a film and stage actor and the father of three actors, Vanessa, Corin and Lynn Redgrave. His wife knew of his homosexuality before their marriage; his son Corin has spoken of it. His long-term lover, Bob Michell, also later married and named one of his children Michael, after Redgrave.

Emlyn Williams (2 children)

Emlyn Williams (1905-1987) was an actor and playwright. He wrote about his homosexuality in his autobiography. He married and had two sons.

Laurence Olivier (4 children)

Laurence Olivier, Lord Olivier of Brighton (1907-1989) was the most famous actor of his generation. He twice married, firstly Vivien Leigh, with whom he had a son, and then Joan Plowright with whom he had three more children. His bisexuality was known in the theatre world, and although denied by his son, his second wife was well aware of it and mentioned it herself.

King Edward II (5 children)

King Edward II of England (1284-1327) was notoriously homosexual during his lifetime. He was deposed by his wife, Isabella of France and was barbarously killed, possibly upon her orders. They had four children, including King Edward III, and he also fathered at least one illegitimate son.

"Chips" Channon (1 child)

Sir Henry ("Chips") Channon (1897-1958), was an American-born British politician, socialite and diarist. His homosexual affairs were not hidden and are well documented. He married Lady Honor Guinness and they had one son.

Malcolm X (6 children)

Malcolm X (1925-1965), who was born Malcolm Little, was a civil rights campaigner who was killed by an assassin. As a young man he regularly took part in various forms of homosexual behaviour, supposedly for economic reasons. There is evidence that he had sustained relationships with some people of his own sex. He married and had six daughters.

Julius Caesar (2 children)

Gaius Julius Caesar (100 BC-44BC) is included here as he was known to be bisexual during his lifetime and there is ample contemporary evidence. Some modern commentators claim that he was the victim of denigration by his enemies, which tells us more about the commentators than it does about Caesar. There are many different sources for the rumours and there seem to be no serious reasons for believing that Caesar was not like many other men and women. He had a daughter by his first wife and a son by the Queen of Egypt.

Joerg Haider (2 children)

Joerg Haider (1950-2008) was the leader of a right-wing Austrian political party. His homosexuality seems to have been well-known in Austrian circles, and after his death in a car accident, which happened following his visit to a gay club, his close friend and political associate, Stefan Petzner, spoke about their close relationship. He was married and had two daughters.

Siegfried Sassoon (1 child)

Sigfried Sassoon (1886-1967) was a poet and author. He won the Military Cross for outstanding gallantry during WW1, although he was one of the "War Poets" who criticised war in their poetry. He was a lover of Prince Philip of Hesse (see below), and of many other men, including the aesthete, Stephen Tennant. Sassoon married Hester Gatty and they had one son, George.

John Addington Symonds (4 children)

John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) was a poet, historian and critic and an early apologist of "male love" or homosexuality. In his late life he invariably travelled with his male gondolier-companion, Angelo Fusato. He married Janet North and they had four daughters.

Prince George, Duke of Kent (3 children)

George Windsor, Duke of Kent (1902-1942), was the youngest brother of King George VI. He enjoyed a full social life and had many sexual relationships with both men and women. With his wife, Princess Marina of Greece, he had two sons and a daughter.

Norman Douglas (2 children)

Norman Douglas (1868-1952) is best known for his 1917 novel "South Wind". He was a prolific writer but lived much of his life as an ex-patriot in Italy, where he died. He is buried in Capri. He married Elizabeth FitzGibbon and they had two children. His homosexuality was well recorded; he made no secret of it.