Marsha Aizumi

Proud Parent Ally, Author, Public Speaker, founder of Okaeri

Pasadena, CA

Marsha Aizumi was born on May 28, 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio. Her parents were originally from Southern California, but were displaced to the midwest from...
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Stewart Butler

engineer; founder, The Faerie Playhouse

New Orleans, LA

Stewart Butler was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1930, moved to New Orleans in 1932 and to Carville, Louisiana in 1941. He attended Louisiana State...
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JD Doyle

LGBTQ+ MUSIC / CULTURE PRESERVATIONIST

Houston, TX

JD Doyle was born on September 24, 1947 in Salem, Ohio. Growing up, JD discovered a passion for chemistry, and later earned his degree in...
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Nanette Gartrell and Dee Mosbacher

psychiatrists in research and film

San Francisco, CA

Nanette Gartrell, MD and Diane (Dee) Mosbacher, MD, PhD are psychiatrists in love. Dee is also a filmmaker and social justice activist; and Nanette is...
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Crystal Lynne Little

Navy veteran, transgender activist

Bay Saint Louis, MS

Crystal Little was born in 1943 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and named Charles. The second of seven kids in his family, Charles never felt a...
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Lee Marquardt

late-blooming lesbian activist

Los Angeles, CA

Lee LeFaive Marquardt was born in 1942 in Jackson, Michigan. During World War II, Lee’s parents worked in factories to support their seven children. Afterwards,...
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Mala Nagarajan and Vega Subramaniam

South Asian activists, founders of Trikone Northwest

Laurel, MD

Vega Subramaniam was born in Madras (now Chennai), India in 1965. Her family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin when she was three, and later to West...
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Don Quaintance

rural men’s circle founder

Centerville, MN

Don Quaintance was born in 1941 on a farm in Cherokee, Iowa. He was the oldest of eight children in a working-class family that moved...
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Alexei Romanoff

1967 Black cat protest organizer

Pasadena, CA

Alexei Romanoff was born in the Ukraine in 1936, fled with his family to the United States during World War II, and came of age...
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Kathleen Saadat

LGBTQ, AIDS, and racial equity advocate and activist

Portland, OR

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised in a family committed to justice and education, Kathleen Saadat graduated from Chicago’s Farragut High School in 1957...
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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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