Dance & Music
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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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Interdisciplinary artist, intersex activist
Helena, MT
Eden Atwood was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1969. Her father, Hub Atwood, was a well-respected composer, and her mother, Helen Guthrie, was a fundraiser...
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Author and playwright; founder, Lilith Theater
San Francisco, CA
Terry Baum was born November 27, 1946 in Los Angeles. She describes her early life in LA as a “reasonably happy Jewish middle-class childhood.” During...
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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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Women's music pioneer, Olivia Records founder
Oakland, CA
Ginny Berson was born on April 25, 1946 in Hartford, Connecticut. She attended college in Massachusetts where she began developing her personal political identity through...
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Musician, Yoruba priest, AIDS activist
Oakland, CA
Blackberri was born in 1945 in Buffalo, New York, and named Charles Timothy Ashmore. From early on, he was comfortable with and even proud of...
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Internet technology entrepreneur; philanthropist
Los Angeles, CA
David Bohnett was born April 2, 1956. His father was a business executive and his mother a preschool teacher. David earned his BS in Business...
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former Catholic nun; non-profit executive
Arlington, TX
Kathy Bowser was born in Miami, Florida in 1944, and raised in a working-class Catholic family with an alcoholic dad, and a mom who managed...
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Drummer, creator of women's drumming spaces
Cheltenham, PA
Carolyn Brandy was born in Tampa, Florida on July 20, 1946. With a father in the US Army special forces, Carolyn lived in Georgia, Maryland,...
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Gay Liberation Front member, author
Bronx NY
Perry Brass was born in 1947 in Savannah, Georgia. His family was part of a close-knit community of mostly Polish Jews. Perry’s relationship with his...
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Playwright of ritual/jazz theatre
Los Angeles, CA
Born in Chicago to a single mother from Memphis in 1958, and raised in South Central Los Angeles, Sharon Bridgforth identifies as a child of...
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lawyer; founder, Trans People of Color Coalition
Washington D.C., DC
Kylar William Broadus was born on August 28, 1963 in Fayette, Missouri. His parents—William, a truck driver, and Fannie, a supervisor of housekeeping—instilled in their...
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The Actors Fund executive, healthcare advocate
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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Lifelong rock star, singer songwriter, trans man
Nashville, TN
Cidny Bullens was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Massachusetts and Maine. His family was middle class and conservative. As a young musician...
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1st openly trans Native American state legislator
San Antonio, TX
Stephanie Byers was born on February 5th, 1963, in Norman, Oklahoma, to a mother she describes as a “firecracker” and a gentle, studious father of...
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JOHN WATERS INGENUE, TRANS TRAILBLAZER
Philadelphia, PA
Elizabeth Coffey-Williams was born in 1948 in Brooklyn, New York, and at the age of 5, moved with her parents to Philadelphia. Her dad was...
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