Disability
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pastor, HIV community activist
Charleston, SC
Robert Arrington was born February 1960 in Harlem, New York to. He grew up as one of three siblings with a strict father and a...
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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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Non-binary teacher and administrator
St. Louis, MO
Elaine Brune was born on June 30, 1955, in Kansas City, Missouri. Growing up in a tight-knit family and neighborhood, Elaine learned to value independence,...
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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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lesbian novelist, fat activist
Oakland, CA
Elana Dykewomon was born on October 11, 1949 in New York. She grew up in a Jewish American household, with a father who fought in...
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founder, old lesbian oral history project
Houston, TX
Arden Eversmeyer was born on April 4, 1931, in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. She moved with her parents and younger sister to Dallas, Texas in 1943....
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DISABILITY ACTIVIST & WRITER
Berlin, Germany
Kenny Fries was born on September 22, 1960, to a lower middle class Jewish household in Brooklyn. Kenny was born with fibular hemimelia, a congenital...
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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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Native American Activist and Culture Authority
Fort Hall, ID
Clyde Hall was born on April 8, 1951 in Pocatello, Idaho. Coming from the Shoshone Métis tribe, Clyde grew up on the Fort Hall Reservation....
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Trans activist, cabbie, sex worker, mentor
New York, NY
Renee Imperato was born on May 8, 1948 in the Hell’s Kitchen area of New York City, where her mother worked making wigs and toupees...
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Award-Winning Latine Social Worker, Trans Veteran
Orlando, FL
Zander Keig was born in Torrance, CA, on July 7, 1966. His father joined the Marine Corps and then worked as an engineer, while his...
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disabled writer, arts administrator, Vermont legislator
South Burlington, VT
John Killacky was born on June 24, 1952 in Chicago, and grew up in a working-class Irish Catholic family, the eldest son out of five...
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Cartoonist, creator of first ongoing gay/lesbian African-American comic strip characters
Portland, OR
Rupert Kinnard was born on July 21, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up on the west side surrounded by extended family. Rupert disliked school...
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Jamestown S'Klallam Tribal Elder
Sequim, WA
Michael Rueben Lowe was born on April 18, 1947 in Port Angeles, Washington. His father was Native American, so he spent his early childhood with...
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Trans Wilderness Survivalist
Challis, ID
Sophia Margeaux was born Jon Winegarner in Hettinger, North Dakota in 1953. (Editor’s note: Sophia continues to use both names in different contexts. Sophia also...
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