Interrupted Lives, Interrupted Voyage | Digital Photo Collage | 2026
Historians estimate that between 110 and 220 of the roughly 2,200 people aboard the Titanic would have had same-sex attractions. We know seven names.
Frank Millet, American painter. Major Archibald Butt, military aide to two American presidents. They shared a house for years and are widely believed to have been romantically involved.
Ella Holmes White and Marie Grice Young, who shared First Class stateroom C-32 and lived their lives together.
Thomson Beattie, Thomas McCaffry, and John Hugo Ross — the Three Musketeers of Winnipeg, bon vivants, possible Edwardian throuple, inseparable to the end.
All lost. April 15, 1912.
Because coming out in the modern sense was not an option in 1912 for legal reasons alone, biographical details are the only clues history left us.
Seven names.
Hundreds of stories we will never know.
