Perry Brass

Gay Liberation Front member, author

Bronx NY

Perry Brass was born in 1947 in Savannah, Georgia. His family was part of a close-knit community of mostly Polish Jews. Perry’s relationship with his...
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Martin Duberman

author, academic, activist

New York, NY

Martin Duberman is an American historian and writer, and one of the pre-eminent scholars of the LGBTQ movement. Martin was born in 1930. His father...
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Gil Gerald

FOUNDING MEMBER, NATIONAL COALITION OF BLACK LESBIANS AND GAYS

Cathedral City, CA

From the earliest moments of Gil’s life in Panama, his father taught him the importance of improvisation and truth, both of which would shape Gil’s...
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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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Troy Perry

Founder, Metropolitan Community Church

Los Angeles, CA

Rev. Troy Perry was born in 1940 in Tallahassee, Florida, the first of five sons. His grandfather fought in the Civil War and his father...
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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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Charles Silverstein

gay mental health reformer; author, The Joy of Gay Sex

New York, NY

Charles Silverstein was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1935, and grew up in what he describes as a very typical Jewish family of that era:...
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