Latinx
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award-winning LGBTQ+ documentary filmmaker
Los Angeles, CA
Dante Alencastre was born in Lima, Peru in 1961. He was raised by his single mother, a nurse, in an apartment alongside his grandfather and...
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Cuban-American fashion designer and HIV activist
Palm Springs, CA
Juan-Manuel Alonso was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1952. He spent his infancy and early childhood in a country in the midst of revolution. After...
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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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Jolino Beserra and David Edward Byrd
Power Artist Couple: Mosaics and Music Posters
Los Angeles, CA
David Edward Byrd was born on August 4, 1941 in Cleveland, Tennessee. His parents split up promptly afterwards, so David grew up spending his school...
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Advocate for Latinx HIV/AIDS healthcare; founder, FLAS, Inc.
Houston, TX
Elia Chinó was born on April 24, 1962 in La Huacana, Michoacan, Mexico, the seventh of nine children in a farm family. Because her family...
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Mulitidisciplinary Artist and Queer/Disability Activist
Palm Springs, CA
Miguel Criado was born on February 1, 1965, in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. As an infant, Miguel’s family moved to Ponce during a time of...
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Chicana writer, early Santa Monica family descendant
Santa Monica, CA
Terri de la Peña was born on February 20, 1947 in Santa Monica, California. Her father was a descendant of the Marquez family, one of...
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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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community mental health activist
Phillips Ranch, Pomona, CA
Marianne Diaz was born in Santa Monica, California, and grew up in Lennox, a poor neighborhood in the flight path of Los Angeles International Airport....
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CUBAN REFUGEE, IMMIGRANT SEXUALITY RESEARCHER
San Diego, CA
Oliva Espin was born on December 12, 1938 in Santiago de Cuba. She grew up in Havana, where her father ran a school. Her mother...
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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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MATTACHINE ACTIVIST, HAIRDRESSER
New York, NY
Legacy of Voices is an oral history project created in 2008 by Lara Spotts and Brian O’Donnell, inspired by their realization that to better understand...
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FOUNDING MEMBER, NATIONAL COALITION OF BLACK LESBIANS AND GAYS
Cathedral City, CA
From the earliest moments of Gil’s life in Panama, his father taught him the importance of improvisation and truth, both of which would shape Gil’s...
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