Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gay icons through the ages, clockwise from top left: Madonna, Liza Minnelli, RuPaul, Barbra Streisand, Beyoncé, Judy Garland.
Judy Garland, seen here performing at Carnegie Hall in 1961 to an array of adoring male fans, is the modern archetype of a "gay icon." (Photo: Frank Russo/NY Daily News via Getty Images) Throughout ...