The OP asked about people who outed themselves. Oscar Wilde was outed by the busting of a “love-nest” establishment, and the fact that his lover was the son of a powerful nobleman. Hardly a case of self-outing.
Enderw23:
Are you saying the first murder was the result of an incestuous lovers’ quarrel? :eek:
Lamia…
Wigglesworth? Wigglesworth???
Wasn’t “Bunny Wigglesworth” the (adopted) name of Zorro’s brother in Zorro, the gay blade?
This isn’t much simpler, because there have been many times and places where being gay was considered wrong. There have been others where some level of homosexual behavior was at least tolerated but being exclusively gay would have been considered to be in poor taste.
Another difficulty is that a person can be openly gay without that information ever being recorded anywhere. I’m sure there were times when everyone in the village knew what the two women (or two men) in the hut down by the river were getting up to, but no one bothered to write it down. In many cases it would have been impossible for anyone to write it down because no one knew how to write.
Yes, it was hard for me to refrain from making some sort of joke myself. 
Never seen it so I don’t know…perhaps the name was inspired by history!
Absolutely right. (I was one of the five people in the Western hemisphere who liked that movie).
Six. None of that simple “Z” with a blade for Bunny - it was the full “Zorro” with a whip. Heck of a wrist, he had… 
Esprix