Famous Gay Aspies

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Wondering if anyone knows of any ?

yeah, Daniel Tammet

that's his pseudonym

and maybe Isaac Newton, if you consider him having Asperger's, and there are also subtle indications in E.T. Bell's biography of him that question his sexuality

Maybe Elton John would be our gay icon, I feel he could be a possible!! !

I could be famous...maybe.
I've never heard of any besides Daniel Tammet, but I'd be very interested to know more as well.

Alan turin I think was gay.

Yep, Alan Turing was gay.

he is gay and an icon, but an Aspie? Maybe Bernie Taupin, though he NEVER came out to play.
Merle

Michelangelo was a little gay.

is that like being a little pregnant?

Merle

Bisexual?

No, actually more of a pederast.

Isaac Newton...hmm...he may have been asexual, apparently he died a virgin...

The only ones I could come up with were Andy Warhol and Liberace

but they would have to be Aspie. I can't see either of them even on the Autism Spectrum let alone Aspie. IQ of Andy Warhol Pop artist USA 86

http://www.aceviper.net/estimated_iq_of ... people.php

Merle

I found this at InternAUT:

LONDON (Reuters/Variety) - Late pop artist Andy Warhol may have been high-functioning autistic, according to a leading autism expert in Great Britain.

"It is fascinating how many of the things he did are typical of autism," said Dr. Judith Gould, director of Elliot House, Britain's leading diagnostic center for autism.

She pointed to his social ineptitude, love of uniformity, minimum use of speech and obsessive attention to detail as classic symptoms.

"I would say, from the study I have seen, that Warhol almost certainly had Asperger syndrome," said Gould, speaking to Sunday's Observer newspaper. She believed that the autism spectrum is often associated with prodigious talent and even with artistic genius.

Warhol, famed for his depictions of pop icons ranging from Elvis Presley to Campbell Soup cans, died in 1987 after a routine gall bladder operation.

InternAUT adds: Another leading autism researcher, Christopher Gillberg at the Childhood Psychiatric Clinic in Gothenburg, Sweden, devotes a chapter on the historical philosopher and mathematician Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) in his 1997 book Barn, ungdomar och vuxna med Asperger syndrom (Children, adolescents and adults with Asperger syndrome).

Gillberg concludes that Wittgenstein must have had Asperger syndrome, a form of high functioning autism.

Wittgenstein is also said to have been gay.

perhaps he was just joyful. . .



Merle