Bisexual and Pansexual Pride Spotlight

Happy Pride Everyone!!!

Each Friday this month I will highlight a different group within the wider LGBTQA+ family.

This week I'm highlighting 30 of our Bisexual and Pansexual siblings.

(Note many of the individuals listed happen to be historical figures

who were known to be in relationships with both genders

Whether of not the would identify as Bi is uncertain) 

Today's spotlights are complied from various places including:

https://bi.org/en/famous

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/celeb-bisexuals

Alan Cumming

Alan says: "I’m not here to change people’s minds about whether they believe in bisexuality. All I’m saying is that I think my sexuality and most people’s sexuality is gray. I am married to a man. I have a healthy sexual appetite and a healthy imagination. I also have an attraction to women. I’ve never lost it, actually."

Alice Walker

Amanda Palmer

Amrita Sher-Gil a Hungarian-Indian painter.

Chloe Auliʻi Cravalho is an American actress and singer (Moana)

Azealia Banks is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter.

Bessie Smith, the "Empress of the Blues", was credited with bringing the blues to mainstream music in the 1920s.

Billie Holiday, was an African American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years.

Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was a South African singer and songwriter.

Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, was a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an Oscar-winning stage and costume designer.

Colette (born Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette) was a French author and woman of letters nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948

Countee Cullen was an American poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright. He was closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
 

Cynthia Bond is a writer, best known as the New York Times Best-Selling author of Ruby (2014).

Dolores del Río (born María de los Dolores Asúnsolo López-Negrete) was a Mexican actor of film, television, and theater.

Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady alongside her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt

Emile Alphonse Griffith was a World Champion boxer in the welterweight, junior middleweight, and middleweight classes. Griffith was best known for his widely publicized 1962 title match with Benny “The Kid” Paret.

Emiliano Zapata Salazar was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920, the main leader of the peasant revolution in the Mexican state of Morelos, and inspired the agrarian movement called Zapatismo.

Ethel Waters was a singer and actor. She was the first African-American to star on her own television show and the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy.

Frank Ocean is a singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and photographer.

Frida Kahlo, born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón, is arguably Mexico’s most famous artist. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society.

George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who left a lasting impact on the agricultural industry as a whole. Carver is credited with creating and developing hundreds of products using peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans.

Giacomo Casanova was an Italian writer, philosopher, and infamous lover whose name conjures up the image of the “ladies’ man”, but in fact, Casanova was bi.

Gillian Leigh Anderson, OBE, is an American-English film, television and theatre actor, and activist.

Gina Alexis Rodriguez is an American actress best known for her role as Jane Villanueva in The CW show Jane The Virgin, for which she won a Golden Globe Award in 2015.

Giorgio Armani is an iconic Italian clothing designer and is credited with pioneering red carpet fashion. Since creating the Giorgio Armani label in 1975, Armani has become a household name.

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an influential American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s, where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop music culture.

Josephine Baker was an American-born singer, dancer, activist, cultural icon, and spy who took Paris by storm in the 1920s and was one of the most popular music hall performers in France.

Keiynan Lonsdale --  Wally West/Kid Flash

"I like to change my hair, I like to take risks with how I dress, I like girls, & I like guys (yes), I like growing, I like learning, I like who I am and I really like who I'm becoming." Instagram 2017

Gertrude "Ma Rainey" Pridgett is known as the "Mother of the Blues" and is one of the earliest blues singers as well as one of the first generation of artists to record their work in that genre.

Pearl Mackie is an actor, dancer, and singer best known for playing Bill Potts in the long-running television series Doctor Who.