Penelope Starr

artist, bisexual lesbian

Tucson, AZ

Penelope Starr was born in 1945 in New York, NY. As the daughter of two eccentric artists – her mother a jeweler and her father...
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Alan Steinman

coast guard physician, anti-DADT activist

Olympia, WA

Alan Steinman was born in Newark, Ohio on February 7, 1945. He graduated from MIT in 1966 and went on to receive his M.D. from...
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Jean-Nickolaus Tretter

LGBTQ historian

St Paul, MN

Jean Tretter was born in 1946, in Little Falls, Minnesota, into a German-Catholic family who had immigrated to the United States a century before. During...
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Lamar Van Dyke

lesbian separatist, tattoo shop owner, painter

Seattle, WA

Lamar Van Dyke was born Heather Elizabeth Nelson in Canada in 1947, and grew up in Buffalo, New York. Lamar’s mother was a homemaker, and...
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Carmen Vázquez

Puerto Rican-American activist and health care advocate

Brooklyn, NY

Carmen Vázquez was born on January 13, 1949 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico to a WWII veteran and a seamstress. Her parents migrated to New York...
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Dick Wagner

Wisconsin LGBTQ politician, historian

Madison, WI

Dick Wagner was born in 1943 in Dayton, Ohio into a traditional German Catholic family (his great grandparents ran a successful beer brewery). Dick attended...
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Wakefield

International HIV/AIDS health advocate

Seattle, WA

Wakefield was born on September 12, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois. Both his parents served as role models of strong civic leadership — his father was...
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Sändra Washington

Lincoln City Councilmember, Racial Equity Advocate

Lincoln, NE

Sändra Washington was born on October 6th, 1960, in Columbus, Ohio. She and her identical twin sister, Sharon, spent their first four years in Westerville,...
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William Waybourn

AIDS community activist; founder, The Victory Fund

Linden, VA

William Waybourn was born in 1947 in Houston, Texas, and raised on a farm in Matador, Texas, 95 miles east of Lubbock – in other...
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Corky Wick

founder, Mothertongue Feminist Theater Collective

San Francisco, CA

Corinne Sue Wick, today known as Corky, was born in 1935 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin into a large Jewish family. She went to the University of...
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Dawn Josephine Wilson

Champion Fencer, Veteran, Trans Activist

Louisville, KY

Dawn Josephine Wilson was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1967. Dawn’s mother and father raised her in the Pentecostal church. After the passing of her...
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Jessica Xavier

Trans Activist, Founder of Transgender Nation – Washington

Silver Spring, MD

Jessica Xavier was born in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1952. Growing up in a government family, Jessica was raised in a Roman Catholic household, later attending...
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Mia Yamamoto

Japanese-American transgender attorney and trailblazer

Los Angeles, CA

Mia Frances Yamamoto’s parents were among 17,000 American civilians of Japanese ancestry who were interred by the US government at Poston, Arizona after the Japanese...
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Richard Zaldivar

founder, “The Wall / Las Memorias”; HIV educator

Los Angeles, CA

Richard Zaldivar was born in Los Angeles in 1952. His dad was Mexican, his mom Mexican-American. Richard’s family was deeply Catholic and early on, Richard...
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Rick Chavez Zbur

LGBT civil rights advocate, CA politician

Santa Monica, CA

Rick Chavez Zbur was born on March 2nd, 1957 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He grew up on a family farm in New Mexico’s Rio Grande...
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