She became "an overnight sensation" in part for her tireless efforts to help restore New Orleans's scene post-Hurricane Katrina. Occupation: The queen of bounce Years active: Released her first single, "Ah Ha, Oh Yeah," in 1999. Why so iconic: For not only winning the gayest competition in the world, but utilizing it to become a symbol of LGBTQ rights in Europe and pissing off vilely homophobic officials in Russia, Belarus and Armenia in the process. Occupation: Singer and drag queen Years active: After performing out of drag in the short-lived Austrian boy band Jetzt Anders!, Conchita first appeared as herself in 2011 before rising like a phoenix to international prominence when she won the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest.
They laughed, they cried, they went dancing in "very, very gay places." And in the process, Ziggy made Céline the gay icon she remains today. They told each other all about their lives and he became her only friend. Why so iconic: Because in the world of the song's lyrics, Céline knows Ziggy will never love her back, but she doesn't care. The first time they met, she threw herself on him in the street and told him that she wanted him. But Ziggy did not see his full potential until 1991, when Céline Dion covered the song on her album Dion chante Plamondon and released a truly historic accompanying music video (if you have not seen it over 100 times, you are not gay).
Occupation: A boy unlike the others Years active: The subject of the song "Un garçon pas comme les autres (Ziggy)," which originated in 1978 with a version by Luc Plamondon and Michel Berger. Without further ado, here are numbers 150 through 101. The series will run every Thursday for the next few weeks, counting down 50 queers at a time.
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