Duncan Teague

Minister, artist, and HIV/AIDS advocate

Decatur, GA

Duncan Teague’s parents met at choir rehearsal at his local Baptist church, and his father was a retired Baptist minister. Duncan was born on January...
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Joey Terrill

Chicano artist, community activist

Glendale, CA

A second-generation Mexican-American, Joey Terrill was born on October 8, 1955, in Los Angeles. Joey’s father was an artist and furniture maker; his mother was...
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Jewel Thais-Williams

queer black dance club founder

Los Angeles, CA

Jewel Thais-Williams was born on May 9, 1939 in Gary, Indiana. The fifth of seven children, Jewel moved with her family to San Diego when...
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Ann Thomas

Founder of Transgender Talent

Anaheim, CA

Ann Thomas was born on October 14, 1962 in Seattle, Washington. At age 3, her family moved to Vashon Island in the middle of Puget...
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Jim Toy

Chinese-American university gay rights activist

Ann Arbor, MI

Jim Toy was born in 1930, in Manhattan, to a Scotch-Irish-American mother and Chinese-American father. After Jim’s mother passed away, his father moved the family...
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Jean-Nickolaus Tretter

LGBTQ historian

St Paul, MN

Jean Tretter was born in 1946, in Little Falls, Minnesota, into a German-Catholic family who had immigrated to the United States a century before. During...
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Ruth Vanita

South Asian author, activist, and professor

Missoula, MT

Ruth Vanita was born on December 19, 1955 in Rangoon, Burma. She grew up in West Delhi, where she filled her days playing with neighborhood...
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Bruce Vilanch

Emmy-winning comedian

West Hollywood, CA

Bruce Vilanch was born in 1948 in New York City, and raised by his adoptive parents Jonas and Henne in Paterson, New Jersey. He developed...
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Dick Wagner

Wisconsin LGBTQ politician, historian

Madison, WI

Dick Wagner was born in 1943 in Dayton, Ohio into a traditional German Catholic family (his great grandparents ran a successful beer brewery). Dick attended...
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Watts Family

mormon parents and their gay son

Provo, UT

Gary Watts was born in 1940 in Logan, Utah into a committed Mormon family. He attended Utah State University, where he was captain of the...
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Robin Webb

Concert Pianist, Composer, Activist Living with HIV/AIDS

Cleveland, MS

Robin Webb was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1957. Robin’s parents loved him and his two brothers unconditionally; he describes them as the “best parents...
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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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