1978 Briggs Initiative in California
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Two-spirit transgender educator
San Francisco, CA
Born in Anchorage, Alaska in 1957, Marcus Arana was given the name Mary by his parents. As one of three children in a working class...
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first trans surgeon to perform gender-affirming surgeries
Burlingame, CA
Dr. Marci Bowers was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1958. At age four, Marci and her family moved to Oconomowoc, a small town in...
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Mentee of Harvey Milk, activist for human rights and the Democratic Party
Daly City, CA
Gwenn Craig was born on April 14, 1951 in Atlanta, Georgia. She grew up on the Gammon Theological Seminary campus where her father worked as...
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Author, critic, HIV rights educator
Sebastopol, CA
Chuck Forester was born on February 23, 1944, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He grew up in Wausau, WI, where his father worked as the Yawkey estate...
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kentucky-born author and educator
Tucson, AZ
Fenton Johnson was born in Kentucky in 1953, the youngest of nine children in a bourbon-making family. His parents named him after a monk at...
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Political and non-profit activist
Santa Monica, CA
Torie Osborn was born in 1950 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and moved with her family to Madrid, Spain at the age of five. In Madrid, Torie...
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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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founder, Mothertongue Feminist Theater Collective
San Francisco, CA
Corinne Sue Wick, today known as Corky, was born in 1935 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin into a large Jewish family. She went to the University of...
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