Gay icon Kensington of AIDS-related illnesses (bronchial pneumonia). Artists particularly embraced by the gay community during the 1980s included Whitney Houston, Patti Labelle, Alaska, Charo, Dolly Parton, Elaine Paige, Amanda Lear, Prince and Mylène Farmer. Several Britons were seen as gay icons, including singers Boy George, David Bowie, George Michael, Morrissey, Pet Shop Boys, Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, and writer Quentin Crisp. Elton John also became a gay icon during this decade, a status strengthened throughout the years. Diana Ross, a long time gay icon, of The Supremes; released a song I'm Coming Out which brought a significance to the phrase of
Harold Butler (civil servant) Harold Butler (civil servant) Sir Harold Beresford Butler, KCMG, CB (6 October 1883 – 26 March 1951) was a British civil servant and the first Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford. Butler was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he obtained a First in "literae humaniores." He was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1905. He joined the Home Civil Service in 1907. Initially joining the Local Government Board, he transferred to the Home Office in 1908. In 1916 he was transferred to the newly created Ministry of Labour at the insistence of William Bridgeman.