Marcy Adelman

Psychologist, wellness non-profit founder

San Francisco, CA

Marcy Adelman was born on August 12th, 1946, in Boston, Massachusetts. She was raised in a multigenerational household infused with values of history, family, and...
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Al Baum

Lawyer, urban planner, psychotherapist, philanthropist

San Francisco, CA

Al Baum was born in 1930 and raised in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park. His father was a successful investment counselor, and hoped that...
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Terry Baum

Author and playwright; founder, Lilith Theater

San Francisco, CA

Terry Baum was born November 27, 1946 in Los Angeles. She describes her early life in LA as a “reasonably happy Jewish middle-class childhood.” During...
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Hector Black

Quaker peace activist, Radical Faerie

Cookeville, TN

Hector Black was born on February 12, 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. On the cusp of being sent to the front lines in World War...
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David Bohnett

Internet technology entrepreneur; philanthropist

Los Angeles, CA

David Bohnett was born April 2, 1956. His father was a business executive and his mother a preschool teacher. David earned his BS in Business...
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Gina Brown

HIV activist, community manager, women's advocate

Chalmette, LA

Gina Brown was born on January 15, 1966 in Pittsburgh, California. Up until age 4, her family lived happily in a middle class neighborhood. When...
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Earline Budd

Black Trans Activist, Human Right's Advocate

Washington D.C., DC

Earline Budd was born on August 14, 1958 in Washington, DC, where she grew up in a very religious family. Assigned male at birth, Earline...
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Elizabeth Coffey-Williams

JOHN WATERS INGENUE, TRANS TRAILBLAZER

Philadelphia, PA

Elizabeth Coffey-Williams was born in 1948 in Brooklyn, New York, and at the age of 5, moved with her parents to Philadelphia. Her dad was...
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Emma Colquitt-Sayers

Medical care entrepreneur

Grand Prairie, TX

Emma Colquitt-Sayers was born in 1953 in Alabama, and grew up mostly in Hastings, Florida with her grandmother, a share cropper who taught her the...
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Tori Cooper

1st Black Trans Woman on Presidential HIV/AIDS Council

College Park, GA

Tori Cooper is a health and equity advocate, community organizer, author, and leading figure in the transgender and HIV communities. Tori was born on May...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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