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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Vivienne Armstrong and Louise Young

LGBTQ+ political and business leaders

Dallas, TX

Vivienne ‘Viv’ Armstrong was born on April 12, 1947, in Knoxville, Tennessee. While attending nursing school in San Francisco, she became active with the Daughters...
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Ada Bello

Cuban-American chemist and lesbian activist

Philadelphia, PA

Ada Bello was born into a middle-class family in 1933 in Havana, Cuba. Aware from early on that she was attracted to girls, she also...
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Beth Elliott

TRANS LESBIAN FOLK SINGER, ACTIVIST, WRITER

Oakland, CA

Beth Elliott was born on November 26, 1950 in Vallejo, California. As a child, she experienced a feeling of being at odds with her gender....
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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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Kay Lahusen

traiblazing lesbian photojournalist

Kennett Square, PA

From very early on, Kay Lahusen loved sports, and taking pictures with her box camera. So it’s not surprising that she went on to become...
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Cheryl Qamar

Lebanese-American therapist, former lesbian separatist

Saugerties, NY

Cheryl Qamar was born on October 17, 1950 in Wichita, Kansas, and grew up on the east side of Wichita–the only Arab family on that...
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Mark Segal

Stonewall witness, publisher, Philadelphia Gay News

Philadelphia, PA

Mark Segal was born in Philadelphia, and raised in the only Jewish household in his public housing project. As a child, he learned of friends...
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Martha Shelley

Gay Liberation Front / Lavender Menace activist; writer

Portland, OR

Martha Altman (later Shelley) was born on December 27th, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish parents of Russian and Polish descent.  At 17, she...
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Sandy Stone

Academic, Theorist, Honorary founder of Transgender Studies

Aptos, CA

Allucquére Rosanne "Sandy" Stone was born in New York City on June 1st, 1954. Sandy and her sister grew up in a conservative Jewish family...
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