This ad featuring many celebrated artists and thinkers was for National Coming Out Day (Oct. 11) and carries the text: "Assume that all important contributions are made by heterosexuals and you're not thinking straight, but narrow. Sexual orientation has nothing to do with the ability to make the mark, let alone make history."

Shown are: James Baldwin, writer (1924-87), Willa Cather, writer (1873-1947), Errol Flynn, actor (1909-1959), Michelangelo, artist (1475-1569), Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet (1852-1950), Cole Porter, composer (1893-1964), Eleanor Roosevelt, social activist (1884-1962), Bessie Smith, singer (1894-1937), Walt Whitman, poet (1819-1892), Virginia Woolf, writer (1882-1941).