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Who are our Pansexual Icons?

  • There are gay icons and lesbian icons - are there people who are bisexual/pansexual icons? I don't necessarily mean icons who are bisexual/pansexual (though they can be), but people who particularly appeal to bi/pan people the same way gay icons are, well, icons. How would you define such a person anyway? I asked this on a LJ community for pansexuals and the only answer I got was the lead character of Torchwood, who's bisexual. Are there any others that would qualify? I'm thinking Lady Gaga or Angelina Jolie, but that's more "appeals to both sexes" rather than "appeals to bisexuals".

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    My own list, as a 45-year-old bisexual lady: Edna St. Vincent Millay. Marlene Dietrich. Cary Grant. Anais Nin. Ani deFranco. Tallulah Bankhead. Virginia Woolf. Alan Cumming. Alfred Kinsey. Jonathan Ames. Colette. To me, bisexual/pansexual icons are people who are not only bi or pan themselves, but who publicly embrace love between people of all different genders.

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"Frolicky pan-sexual sex symbol" http://www.alancumming.com/ should qualify. And in my limited personal experience, he is indeed seen as an icon for, and admired by, bisexual and pansexual people.

sueinnyc

David Bowie?

ian1977

Captain Jack Harkness.

elsietheeel

Stripped down to the sexiest or most notable from the wikipedia list, some dupes from other posts here: Kathey Acker Summer Altice Brett Anderson Billy Joe Armstrong Joan Baez Bai Ling Josephine Baker (+) Tallulah Bankhead Drew Barrymore Simone de Beauvoir Sarah Bernhardt Angela Bowie David Bowie Marlon Brando Susie Bright William S. Burroughs Saffron Burrows Caligula (more infamous than anything else) Jim Carrol Neneh Cherry Margaret Cho Hélène Cixous Montgomery Clift Darby Crash Joan Crawford Aleister Crowley Sammy Davis, Jr. James Dean Andy Dick Isadora Duncan Megan Fox Anne Frank Clark Gable Lady Gaga Greta Garbo Nina Hartley Anne Heche Nona Hendryx Katherine Hepburn Jenna Jameson Angelina Jolie Grace Jones Janis Joplin Miranda July Frida Kahlo Burt Lancaster Lindsay Lohan Freddie Mercury Bif Naked Me'Shell NdegéOcello Tila Nguyen ("Tila Tequila") Anaïs Nin Camille Paglia Amanda Palmer Peaches Anthony Perkins Édith Piaf Carol Queen Dee Dee Ramone Arthur Rimbaud Ève Salvail Anna Nicole Smith Dusty Springfield Michael Stipe Corin Tucker Patricia Velasquez Virginia Woolf

idiopath

Dr. Frankenfurter (if fictional characters count) This is the only one so far that resonates with me. Bisexuals don't have the same cohesive social structure that gays and lesbians do, so it's not surprising that it's hard to think of a person or people that would connect with them (us) in the same way that Madonna connects with (many) gay men.

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http://en.allexperts.com/e/t/ta/tallulah_bankhead.htm [scroll through for the juicy stuff] has always seemed to me someone who rocked particularly hard and convincingly when it came to sexual freedom, amid rumors of scandalous carryings-on with underage Eton schoolboys and Hollywood actresses.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Izzard says he is either a straight transvestite or a "male lesbian." He has also described himself as "a lesbian trapped in a man's body," transgender, and "a complete boy plus half a girl."

weapons-grade pandemonium

Prince?

Fiasco da Gama

Ani DiFranco?

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