Religion
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RADICAL FAERIE, THERAPIST, POET
Decatur, GA
Franklin Abbot was born in 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up in Birmingham, Buffalo, and Nashville. As a kid, Franklin marched to the beat...
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GAY MUSLIM IMAM
Chicago, IL
Imam Daayiee Abdullah was born Sidney Thompson in Detroit, Michigan on January 11th, 1954. From a very young age, Daayiee displayed an independent mind, becoming...
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award-winning LGBTQ+ documentary filmmaker
Los Angeles, CA
Dante Alencastre was born in Lima, Peru in 1961. He was raised by his single mother, a nurse, in an apartment alongside his grandfather and...
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Writer, actor, HIV educator, meditation teacher
Los Angeles, CA
Noel Alumit was born on January 1, 1968 in Baguio City, Philippines. Noel’s family moved to Boston when he was 2 years old when his...
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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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Ifa Priestess, Author, Same Gender Loving (SGL) Activist
Palm Springs, CA
Love TaShia Asanti was born on September 23, 1961 in Chicago, Illinois. Growing up in Los Angeles, she was exposed to the area’s poverty and...
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Reformed anti-LGBTQ+ politician
San Luis Obispo, CA
Roy Ashburn was born in Long Beach, California, in 1954, and grew up in San Luis Obispo along California’s central coast. At 8, Roy became...
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Swiss immigrant, multi linguist
New York, NY
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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Technology pioneer, philanthropist
Orem, UT
Bruce was born March 23, 1948 in Twin Falls, Idaho. He was the fifth of six children in a musically inclined Mormon family. He grew...
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Author and playwright; founder, Lilith Theater
San Francisco, CA
Terry Baum was born November 27, 1946 in Los Angeles. She describes her early life in LA as a “reasonably happy Jewish middle-class childhood.” During...
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Lifelong community organizer
Houston, TX
Born in 1950, Deborah Moncrief Bell grew up as one of five children in a working-class family in Birmingham, Alabama. Her father was a carpenter...
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Disabled Suquamish Veteran
Suquamish, WA
Jean Belmont was born on April 7, 1960, in Fort Dix, New Jersey, the military base where her father was stationed. The very next day,...
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Accountant, AIDS crisis survivor
New York, NY
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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Quaker peace activist, Radical Faerie
Cookeville, TN
Hector Black was born on February 12, 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. On the cusp of being sent to the front lines in World War...
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Cherokee Nation Language Specialist
Jay, OK
Wade Blevins was born on January 9th, 1973, in Grove, Oklahoma (Cherokee Nation) where his family has resided since the 1840s. He was predominantly raised...
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public opinion researcher and activist
Chicago, IL
Patrick Bova was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1938. His grandparents had come to America from Italy in the late 19th century. Patrick had three...
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