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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Terri de la Peña

Chicana writer, early Santa Monica family descendant

Santa Monica, CA

Terri de la Peña was born on February 20, 1947 in Santa Monica, California. Her father was a descendant of the Marquez family, one of...
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Felipa DeLeon and Monique Mousseau

Two-Spirit Founders of Uniting Resilience

Box Elder, SD

Felipa De Leon (native name: Theíčihila Wi) was born on June 1st 1969 in Dowagiac, Michigan, and grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation....
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Toni Diamond

DISABLED VETERAN, 1ST TRANS CANDIDATE FOR STATE OFFICE IN SD

Rapid City, SD

Toni Diamond was born in St. Louis Park, Minnesota on January 16th 1968. She grew up in a physically, emotionally, and mentally abusive home, which...
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Rosa Diaz

Founder, Imperial Valley LGBT Resource Center

Brawley, CA

Rosa Diaz was born on September 30, 1960, in Sonora, Mexico. Rosa spent most of her childhood in Brawley, California, a predominantly Hispanic and Black...
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Marianne Diaz

community mental health activist

Phillips Ranch, Pomona, CA

Marianne Diaz was born in Santa Monica, California, and grew up in Lennox, a poor neighborhood in the flight path of Los Angeles International Airport....
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Ceyenne Doroshow

FOUNDER / EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF GLITS

Ozone Park, Queens, NY

Brooklyn-born Ceyenne Doroshow grew up in a traditional Black middle-class family, religious and conservative to a fault. Her mother was an educator and neighborhood staple,...
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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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Doc Duhon

BDSM & POLYAMORY EDUCATOR, HIV EDUCATOR

Palm Springs, CA

Doc Duhon was born in 1954 in Reno, Nevada. Two years later, Doc’s Cajun father moved the family to his home state of Louisiana. Doc’s...
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Tom Dyer

gay newspaper publisher

Winter Park, FL

Tom Dyer was born in Lancaster, Ohio in 1955. When he was 7 or 8, Tom was discovered by his brother and father playing Barbies...
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Elana Dykewomon

lesbian novelist, fat activist

Oakland, CA

Elana Dykewomon was born on October 11, 1949 in New York. She grew up in a Jewish American household, with a father who fought in...
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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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Sokari Ekine

Blogger, Author, Photographer, Activist

Richmond, VA

Sokari was born on May 15th 1949 in London, UK. After four years of living with their grandmother, they moved to Lagos, Nigeria to live...
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Oliva Espín

CUBAN REFUGEE, IMMIGRANT SEXUALITY RESEARCHER

San Diego, CA

Oliva Espin was born on December 12, 1938 in Santiago de Cuba. She grew up in Havana, where her father ran a school. Her mother...
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Arden Eversmeyer

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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Lillian Faderman

Award-Winning Lesbian Author, Scholar, Historian

San Diego, CA

Lillian Faderman, born on July 18th, 1940 in the Bronx,  moved with her mother to Boyle Heights in Los Angeles in 1948. Lillian’s father refused...
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