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Aelred of Rievaulx (1110–1167, England) monk

Aelred called Simon, a 14 year old novice, "my gentlest friend," "my beloved brother," and "the one-in-heart with me.

Ai (36–1 BCE, China) Emperor

Emperor Ai made his lover, Dong Xian, marshal and even talked of abdicating to him before his death.

Akhenaton (Amenhotep IV) (1380–1362 BCE, Egypt) Pharaoh

Smenkhkare, co-regent and successor.

Alexander the Great (356–323 BCE, Macedonia) King of Macedon and conqueror of the known world

Hephaestion was his closest and life-long friend.

Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832–1899, United States) clergyman and novelist

Sam, a Chinese immigrant boy, became Alger's ward, among many other boys.

Hans Christian Anderson (1805–1875, Denmark) writer

Objects of unfulfilled desire: Edvard Collin (son of the Royal Danish Theatre Director and Anderson's mentor, Jonas Collin) and Henrik Stempe.

St. Anselm (1033–1109, Italy) Catholic monk, theologian

He had emotional relationships with Lanfranc, and then a succession of his own pupils.

Anxi (–243 BCE, China) King

Long Yang became a favorite of King Anxi.

John Atherton (1598–1640, England, Ireland) Cleric

During his youth, possibly while a student at Oxford, Atherton is known to have engaged in sexual relations with another man.

W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907–1973, England) poet

Chester Kallman, also a poet, wrote the libretto for Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress with Auden.

Lord Audley, Earl of Castlehaven (Mervyn Touchet) (1593–1631, England, Ireland) Earl of Castlehaven

Amptil (or possibly Antill) had originally been a beggar and a vagabond, until Sir Henry Smith picked him up and made him his footman, then master of his stables, and eventually arranging Amptil's marriage to his son's daughter.