Smenkhkare, co-regent and successor.

Hephaestion was his closest and life-long friend.

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

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

Bacon favored young Welsh serving-men, especially Tobie Matthew who is said to have inspired Bacon's essay "Of Friendship"Henry Percy

Gian Carlo Menotti met Barber when they attended the Curtis Institute.

The Honorable William Courtenay, later 3rd Viscount and 9th Earl of Devon, regarded as one of the most beautiful boys in England, was Beckford's object d'amour for nearly six years.

William Rufus King met Buchanan in 1833, when both were in the Senate.

Andrew Beck, a fellow student at Cambridge University, developed a close friendship with Carpenter that had a "touch of romance.

Copland lived an openly gay life in an era when it was not generally acceptable (although few biographies make note of this essential fact).

Piers Gaveston, his squire, later made Earl of Cornwall by Edward, was executed by the barons in 1312.

Desiderius seems to have been unlucky in love, having made advances to, and been rejected by his friend and fellow monk Servatius Roger, and one of his pupils, Thomas Grey, later Marquis of Dorset.

Keith, a royal page, was probably the then 16 year old crown prince of Prussia's first lover.

Handel never discussed his private life, never married, and spent most of his time in all-male social circles.

Clyde Tolson (1900–1975), Assistant Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, was Hoover's constant companion for over 40 years, lived with Hoover until the latter's death.

Wilhelm Gabriel Wegener, a fellow student.

Members of Kitchener's staff were referred to as as "Kitchener's Band of Boys.

Leonardo had no relationships with women, never married, had no children, and raised many young proteges, including Gian Giacomo de' Caprotti, nicknamed "Salai"("lamb or offspring of Satan"), who shared his life for 20 years.

Joshua Speed and Lincoln slept in the same bed for four years in Springfield—declining an offer of a bed of his own in the Butler household, and sharing Speed's bed long after it was economically necessary—and developed a deep, "initimate" friendship.

Gherardo Perini, a model for Michelangelo, is thought to be the subject of some of his homoerotic poetry.

In terms of intimate relationships with men, he was somewhat secretive, and would disappear for weeks at a time to conduct his liaisons.

Fred VaughanPeter Doyle, streetcar conductor