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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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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