Political Activism
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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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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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Author, critic, HIV rights educator
Sebastopol, CA
Chuck Forester was born on February 23, 1944, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He grew up in Wausau, WI, where his father worked as the Yawkey estate...
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Pansy Division co-founders, gay rock stars
California
Jon Ginoli was born in Peoria, Illinois In December 1959. Twenty months later, Chris Freeman was born in Seattle, Washington. Some 30 years later, Jon...
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first openly transgender judge in U.S.
Houston, TX
At her birth in 1948, Phyllis Randolph Frye was named Phillip. Growing up in Texas, Phillip became an Eagle Scout and was the commander of...
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Nanette Gartrell and Dee Mosbacher
psychiatrists in research and film
San Francisco, CA
Nanette Gartrell, MD and Diane (Dee) Mosbacher, MD, PhD are psychiatrists in love. Dee is also a filmmaker and social justice activist; and Nanette is...
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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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Gay Rights and Liberation Activist, Lawyer
Palm Springs, CA
Gerald “Jerry” Gerash was born on February 19th, 1934, in the Bronx, New York, to immigrant Russian Jewish parents. He grew up surrounded by families...
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black lesbian vampire novelist
San Francisco, CA
Jewelle Gomez was born on September 11, 1948 and grew up in Boston. Jewelle is of Cape Verdean/Wampanoag/Ioway descent, and was largely raised by her...
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author, trans health trailblazer
Union City, CA
Jamison Green was born in Oakland, California, on November 8, 1948, and designated female at birth. Thus, when he was adopted at one month old,...
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transgender women of color activist
Little Rock, AR
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy was born in the 1940s in Chicago, Illinois. Around age 13, she came out to her parents as transgender. After a psychologist,...
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Gay Liberation Front radical; artist
New York, NY
Michela Griffo was born in 1949 in Rochester, New York, into a large, unruly family of Irish, Germans, Italians—what Michela calls the United Nations of...
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businessman; physician; co-founders, Equity Foundation
Portland, OR
Jim Vegher was born in 1939 in San Pedro, California, the second oldest in a family of eight kids. Jim’s devoutly Catholic father was thrilled...
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realtor; HRC humanitarian of the year
Dallas, TX
Mike Grossman was born in Minneapolis in 1941 into a traditional Jewish family. At the age of five, he contracted polio, which separated him from...
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Lead Plaintiff to Legalize Gay Sex in Montana
Helena, MT
Linda Gryczan was born on September 23rd, 1953, the oldest of five siblings, and grew up in Western Colorado. At 11 years old, she read...
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Philanthropist and gay nightlife figurehead
Philadelphia, PA
Mel Heifetz was born in Philadelphia on November 4, 1935, and raised in South Philadelphia. His parents could not afford to purchase property, and his...
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