Famous Historical Personalities Who We Didn’t Know Identified as LGBTQ

In 2023, Emperor Elagabalus, an infamous prankster and Rome’s ruler from the tender age of 14 to 18, was recognized by a British museum as possibly a trans woman due to his unconventional behavior and preferences noted in historical texts.

The North Hertfordshire Museum reclassified Elagabalus as transgender based on textual references to wanting to be called a ‘lady’ or ‘wife.’ Alongside wearing wigs and makeup, it’s debated whether his posthumous scandalous image was a smear campaign by his successor.