Operation Spanner was a UK-wide police investigation into male same-sex sadomasochism which impacted a man in Welwyn Garden City.
Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright who had a friendship with Lady Desborough of Panshanger.
Ronald Wright, sometimes known as Sir Gay, was an artist, writer and model born in Puckeridge.
Same-sex relationships have been legislated since the Tudor period.
Tom Rowland was a 17th-century highwayman from Hertfordshire who dressed in women's clothes.