Jan Felshin and Edrie Ferdun

Teachers and Mentors

Cherry Grove, PA

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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Luigi Ferrer

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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Marlon Fixico

TWO-SPIRIT LEADER, MEDICINE MAN

Blackfoot, ID

Marlon “Marty” Fixico was born in 1957 in Oklahoma to a Seminole father and a Cheyenne mother. Marty’s early awareness of his attraction to men...
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Chuck Forester

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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L. Frank

Tongva, Ajachmem, and Rarámuri artist, indigenous language activist

Santa Rosa, CA

Editor’s Note: L. Frank’s pronoun is pó, calling us to practice Native language to convey two-spirit and Native identity nuances the English language cannot. Frank...
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Chris Freeman and Jon Ginoli

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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Freeman Thomas Freeman and Steve Levine

Sexuality workshop organizers

Wayne, 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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Phyllis Randolph Frye

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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Manuel Garza

MATTACHINE ACTIVIST, HAIRDRESSER

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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Payam Ghassemlou

Co-founder of Homan Los Angeles, Psychotherapist, Author

West Hollywood, CA

Payam Ghassemlou was born in 1966 in Tehran, Iran. From a young age, Payam realized he was different from his peers, identifying as gay in...
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Ladyboy Gigi

INTERSEX BDSM EDUCATOR, RADIO HOST

Houston, TX

Ladyboy Gigi was born in 1955 in Houston, Texas. At birth, Gigi’s genitalia did not fit the standard definitions for male or female bodies (a...
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Terry Gock

Psychologist, advocate for AAPI and LGBTQ+ mental health

Los Angeles, CA

Terry Gock was born in Hong Kong on August 10, 1951. His family owned a large Shanghai department store, so Terry and his brother grew...
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Cassandra Grant

co-founder, salsa soul sisters

Brooklyn, NY

Cassandra Grant was born in 1947 in New York City. Her family lived in the Lincoln Projects in Harlem, a haven for Black World War...
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James Gribben

actor, dancer, music director

Gun Barrel City, TX

Jim Gribben was born in 1943 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Though his childhood was difficult, Jim’s “small but mighty” mother taught him strength and resilience. As...
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Susan Griffin

environmental feminist author and activist

Berkeley, CA

Susan Griffin was born in Los Angeles, California in 1943. She came into the world at a time of global war and the Holocaust. These...
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Michela Griffo

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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