Gay icon a prototypical portrait of a tortured closet case." Due to Saint Sebastian's status as a gay icon, Tennessee Williams chose to use the saint's name for the martyred character Sebastian in his play, "Suddenly, Last Summer". The name was also used by Oscar Wilde—as Sebastian Melmoth—when in exile after his release from prison. Wilde, an Irish writer and poet, was about as "out of the closet" as was possible for the late 19th century, and is himself considered to be a gay icon. Marie Antoinette was an early lesbian icon. Rumors about her relationships with women circulated in pornographic detail
Sebastian Schneider Sebastian Schneider Sebastian Schneider (born July 28, 1982) is a German Argentine guitar player, multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer and musical producer. He started out on the Argentine and Latin American rock scene, playing in several rock bands, and began his solo career in 2004. Sebastian Schneider (who took his mother's maiden name) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from a German descendant mother and a Basque descendant father. He grew up in Palermo, a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, where he also started his musical career. At the age of six, his grandmother Florencia gave him his first guitar, an acoustic nylon