Tim White Eagle

Performance Artist and Musical Director

Seattle, WA

Timothy White Eagle Turner was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1966. His mother was an enrolled member of Mohave (CRIT) tribe. He was adopted by...
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Karen Williams

Black Comic, Host, and Humor Educator

Oxford, OH

Karen Williams was born on August 12, 1952 in the Soundview area of the Bronx. Karen’s parents were only 18 years old when she was...
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David Wilson

Corporate leader and marriage equality advocate

Provincetown, MA

David Wilson was born in 1944 in Boston, to Black parents who worked as domestics for White families around the perimeter of Boston. They would...
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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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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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