King James I of England, who authorized the revered King James Version of the Bible, was homosexual. Artists, Michelangelo, who painted the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. and Leonardo da Vinci, painter of "The Lord's Supper," were also gay. On the lesbian side are Willa Cather, a writer, and James Miranda Barry, the first British woman doctor, who passed as a man all her life to avoid the consequences of full disclosure. (quoted from Homosexuals in History by A.L. Rowfe and Lesbian Lives by Barbara Grier and Coletta Reid in Is the Homosexual my Neighbor? (p. 30ff)