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Two-spirit transgender educator
San Francisco, CA
Born in Anchorage, Alaska in 1957, Marcus Arana was given the name Mary by his parents. As one of three children in a working class...
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VETERAN & BISEXUAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST
Canton, MA
Cliff Arnesen was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1948. His father was an alcoholic merchant marine and longshoreman. His...
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Lifelong community organizer
Houston, TX
Born in 1950, Deborah Moncrief Bell grew up as one of five children in a working-class family in Birmingham, Alabama. Her father was a carpenter...
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first trans surgeon to perform gender-affirming surgeries
Burlingame, CA
Dr. Marci Bowers was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1958. At age four, Marci and her family moved to Oconomowoc, a small town in...
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Black Trans Activist, Human Right's Advocate
Washington D.C., DC
Earline Budd was born on August 14, 1958 in Washington, DC, where she grew up in a very religious family. Assigned male at birth, Earline...
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Asian-American Sexual Minority Professor and Researcher
Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Connie Chan was born on January 16, 1954 in Hong Kong. Her father owned a stevedoring company in Shanghai, but in the wake of communism...
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DISABLED VETERAN, 1ST TRANS CANDIDATE FOR STATE OFFICE IN SD
Rapid City, SD
Toni Diamond was born in St. Louis Park, Minnesota on January 16th 1968. She grew up in a physically, emotionally, and mentally abusive home, which...
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bisexual activist, HIV community activist
Miami, FL
Luigi Ferrer was born in 1958 in Ponce, Puerto Rico. During his childhood, he bounced between Puerto Rico and Columbia, South Carolina, then attended the...
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Gay Rights and Liberation Activist, Lawyer
Palm Springs, CA
Gerald “Jerry” Gerash was born on February 19th, 1934, in the Bronx, New York, to immigrant Russian Jewish parents. He grew up surrounded by families...
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INTERSEX BDSM EDUCATOR, RADIO HOST
Houston, TX
Ladyboy Gigi was born in 1955 in Houston, Texas. At birth, Gigi’s genitalia did not fit the standard definitions for male or female bodies (a...
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author, trans health trailblazer
Union City, CA
Jamison Green was born in Oakland, California, on November 8, 1948, and designated female at birth. Thus, when he was adopted at one month old,...
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bisexual activist, writer, educator
Takoma Park, MD
Loraine Hutchins was born in the late 1940s in Washington, DC. She graduated with a degree in English and American Literature in 1970 from Shimer...
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organizer, 1979 March on washington; bisexual activist
Washington D.C., DC
ABilly Jones-Hennin was born in 1942 on St. John’s, Antigua and adopted at age three by civil rights activists with nine other adopted kids. After...
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bisexual/feminist activist and author
Cazadero, CA
Lani Ka’ahumanu was born in Edmonton, Alberta and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lani is known today as one of the major...
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Retired social worker, bisexual pioneer, community activist
Portland, ME
BobBI (Barbara) Keppel was born on December 6, 1932 in Washington, DC. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1955, but spent a year abroad at...
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Entrepreneur, bisexual rights activist
West Hollywood, CA
Arlene Krantz was born on September 5, 1939, into a Jewish family in Philadelphia. Her mother was a passionate reader, a trait that Arlene inherited...
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