Religion
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businessman; physician; co-founders, Equity Foundation
Portland, OR
Jim Vegher was born in 1939 in San Pedro, California, the second oldest in a family of eight kids. Jim’s devoutly Catholic father was thrilled...
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realtor; HRC humanitarian of the year
Dallas, TX
Mike Grossman was born in Minneapolis in 1941 into a traditional Jewish family. At the age of five, he contracted polio, which separated him from...
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psychotherapist, ‘de-cluttering’ professional
Lauderdale, MS
Kim Grubbs was born in 1955 in McComb, Mississippi. When he was about nine years old, his dad purchased a pharmacy in Harlandale, a town...
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‘gay gene’ geneticist, HIV researcher, filmmaker
Haleiwa, HI
Dean Hamer was born in 1951 in Montclair, New Jersey. He graduated from Trinity College in Connecticut and earned a Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School....
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Stonewall arrestee, early trans catalyst, entertainer, author
Palmdale, CA
Christy Henderson-Jenkins was born on November 11th, 1949. She spent her childhood years in Philadelphia before moving to Arizona with her mother and stepfather at...
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AIDS activist; creator, “Aging Gayfully”
Sonoma, CA
Gary “Buz” Hermes was born on January 11, 1939 in Napa, California – not the global wine destination of today, but a small, conservative farming...
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PHOTOGRAPHER, ART MAGAZINE FOUNDER
Los Angeles, CA
Louis Jacinto was born on November 13, 1955 in Bakersfield, California. His father was a railroad worker and his mother stayed home to raise the...
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organizer, 1979 March on washington; bisexual activist
Washington D.C., DC
ABilly Jones-Hennin was born in 1942 on St. John’s, Antigua and adopted at age three by civil rights activists with nine other adopted kids. After...
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disabled writer, arts administrator, Vermont legislator
South Burlington, VT
John Killacky was born on June 24, 1952 in Chicago, and grew up in a working-class Irish Catholic family, the eldest son out of five...
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LGBTQ+ policymaker, Former Mayor of Palm Springs
Palm Springs, CA
Geoff Kors was born on April 30, 1961 in New York City, the grandchild of Eastern European immigrants. His father was a lawyer and his...
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KAUAI COUNCIL MEMBER AND PRIDE MARSHAL
Anahola, HI
KipuKai L.P. Kuali’i was born on Kauai, in Lihue, Hawaii, on March 17, 1962, to a Native Hawaiian father and a Portuguese mother. His parents...
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Child Actor, first out LGBT legislator in CA
Santa Monica, CA
Sheila Kuehl was born on February 8, 1941. Her family moved from St. Louis to Los Angeles when she was 2 years old because her...
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South Asian LGBTQ+ activist; Trikone co-founder
San Jose, CA
Arvind Kumar was born on January 1, 1956, in Varanasi, India. Growing up in a joint family in Bihar, he had a conservative Hindu grandfather...
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AAPI lesbian activist; ceiling-smashing civil servant
Temple City, CA
June Lagmay was born in Yokohama, Japan and grew up in Historic Filipinotown in Los Angeles. In high school in 1968, she and Rita Romero...
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international human rights filmmaker and activist
Eureka Springs, AR
TrellaLaughlin was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1937. After her mother died, Trellagrew up in her grandmother’s boarding house. Trella’s family was white. Her primary...
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