Disability
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Trans woman, healthcare worker, advocate for affirming end-of-life care
Grand Junction, CO
Lisa Oakley was born in 1953 in Chicago, Illinois. Growing up, Lisa’s mother wanted Lisa to play sports and have male friends, but Lisa was...
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Political and non-profit activist
Santa Monica, CA
Torie Osborn was born in 1950 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and moved with her family to Madrid, Spain at the age of five. In Madrid, Torie...
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Trans health advocate; creator of TRANScestors anthologies
Yuba City, CA
Jude Patton was born in St. Louis, Missouri, assigned female at birth, and adopted at seven months old. Perhaps because his parents had experienced difficulty...
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activist, organizer, reconciler
Des Moines, IA
For more than 30 years, Donna Red Wing was a national leader in the fight for human rights, civil rights and LGBTQ equality. The Christian...
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Intersex activist, giant, early legally non-binary person
San Francisco, CA
David Cameron Strachan was born in 1947 in Deep River, Ontario, and grew up in Walnut Creek, California. His family was very religious and attended...
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Bisexual Activist, Porn Writer, and Journalist with MS
Los Angeles, CA
Mike Szymanski was born on September 1, 1960 in Baltimore, Maryland. As part of a military family, he moved around a lot, living in Hawaii,...
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disability physician, world traveler
Montreal, QC, Canada
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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Stutterer, Professor, and Novelist
Seattle, WA
John Whittier Treat was born on August 10, 1953 in New Haven, Connecticut, and was raised Catholic in a close-knit family. At age twelve, John...
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Blind poet, disability activist
Falls Church, VA
In 1952, Kathi Wolfe was born six months premature and legally blind in Southern New Jersey. Since early childhood, she wanted to be a writer...
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