One of the greatest architects of the last century, Phillip Johnson. The incredible Crystal Cathedral, designed for evangelicals by Phillip Johnson.
Alen Turing, WWII Hero and the father of modern computer language.
Then there are all those famous writers: like Walt Whitman, Henry James, Henry David Thoreau, H.D., Herman Melville, Elizabeth Bishop, James Baldwin, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Hart Crane, Allen Ginsberg, Gertrude Stein, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich.
You can find an equally steller field in film, music, dance, theater.
Yes, as Alen Turing proved, even science.
All those gays from a tiny sliver of the population.
The majority of Republicans hate the gays. Envy? After all, if they had a talent like Phillip Johnson, they would have built their own cathedral.