The evidence that a person maintains his influence, and is still alive in the collective consciousness even many years or centuries after death, is the transmission of his legacy from generation to generation, illuminating consciences or provoking debates about his figure or his work. This power and prestige may be due as much to the quality of what she has produced as to her outstanding personality. It may be an artistic, political, philosophical or other legacy, but the bottom line is that it survives because it remains important to many people, sometimes hundreds, sometimes millions.

GAYS AND LESBIANAS is dedicated specifically to notable men and women, who have contributed, according to the case, both to history in general and to building gay/lesbian identity in particular, bringing together their biographies in this book. Who are these GAYS AND LESBIANS? They are the ones who have significantly transformed the world or the vision of it among their contemporaries and predecessors in general, through their thoughts, deeds or works, modifying in a much more intentional way what we can call the "gay identity". In this case, their importance is relativized, because in some cases they have been important to many men and women regardless of their sexual preference, and in others they have been more relevant to "gay identity" than to other human beings.

The object of this work is not encyclopedic but rather to be an integrating mosaic that erases prejudices and collaborates in the happy coexistence of differences.