- John Boswell, Catholic historian whose extensive research did so much to open up scholarship to renewed interest in both a re-evaluation of the biblical evidence on same – sex relationships, and to the previously hidden history of gay and lesbian people in the church, saints, martyrs, bishops and popes among them.
- St Eugenia /Eugenios, Cross-dressing’ Saint, crucified for her faith, and also SS Protus and Hyacinth, her eunuch slaves, crucified together with her.
