Perry Brass

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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Kylar W. Broadus

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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Gina Brown

HIV activist, community manager, women's advocate

Chalmette, LA

Gina Brown was born on January 15, 1966 in Pittsburgh, California. Up until age 4, her family lived happily in a middle class neighborhood. When...
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Stewart Butler

engineer; founder, The Faerie Playhouse

New Orleans, LA

Stewart Butler was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1930, moved to New Orleans in 1932 and to Carville, Louisiana in 1941. He attended Louisiana State...
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Stephanie Byers

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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Mandy Carter

Nobel-nominated civil rights organizer

Durham, NC

Mandy Carter was born in 1948 in Albany, New York. Within a couple months of being born, Mandy and her two siblings were abandoned by...
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Cecilia Chung

Immigrant, Transgender Social Justice Advocate

San Francisco, CA

Cecilia Chung was born on July 28, 1965 in Hong Kong to her Catholic mother, Dawning, and her father, William. Cecilia often found herself challenging...
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Karen Clark

groundbreaking Minnesota politician

Minneapolis, MN

Karen was born in 1945 in Oklahoma, but her family soon moved to a farm in Edgerton, Minnesota. Because her family were sharecroppers, Karen learned...
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Gwenn Craig

Mentee of Harvey Milk, activist for human rights and the Democratic Party

Daly City, CA

Gwenn Craig was born on April 14, 1951 in Atlanta, Georgia. She grew up on the Gammon Theological Seminary campus where her father worked as...
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Jennifer Crossen

adoption trailblazer

Lawrenceburg, KY

Jennifer Crossen was born in 1957 in Yokosuka, Japan, where her father was stationed as a  doctor in the U.S. Navy. At three, Jennifer’s family...
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Pam David

SOCIAL JUSTICE & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ACTIVIST

Mill Valley, CA

Pam David was born in 1952 in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in nearby Highland Park, historically one of two villages on Chicago’s north shore...
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Sharon Day

Indigenous HIV community activist; Water Walker

St Paul, MN

Sharon Day was born in 1951 in Northern Minnesota. Both of her parents were enrolled members of Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe. She grew up...
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Rochelle A. Diamond

CALTECH SCIENTIST, QUEER ACTIVIST

Pasadena, CA

Rochelle Anne “Shelley” Diamond was born on August 9, 1951, in Phoenix, Arizona. Both her parents came from merchandising families, and her Jewish family owned...
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JD Doyle

LGBTQ+ MUSIC / CULTURE PRESERVATIONIST

Houston, TX

JD Doyle was born on September 24, 1947 in Salem, Ohio. Growing up, JD discovered a passion for chemistry, and later earned his degree in...
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Martin Duberman

author, academic, activist

New York, NY

Martin Duberman is an American historian and writer, and one of the pre-eminent scholars of the LGBTQ movement. Martin was born in 1930. His father...
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Denise Eger

Pioneering lesbian rabbi; ally to congregants with HIV

Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, CA

Rabbi Denise Eger was born on March 14, 1960 in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Her devout Jewish family settled in Memphis, Tennessee around 1972. Rabbi Eger...
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