Daayiee Abdullah

GAY MUSLIM IMAM

Chicago, IL

Imam Daayiee Abdullah was born Sidney Thompson in Detroit, Michigan on January 11th, 1954. From a very young age, Daayiee displayed an independent mind, becoming...
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Kylar W. Broadus

lawyer; founder, Trans People of Color Coalition

Washington D.C., DC

Kylar William Broadus was born on August 28, 1963 in Fayette, Missouri. His parents—William, a truck driver, and Fannie, a supervisor of housekeeping—instilled in their...
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Pam David

SOCIAL JUSTICE & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ACTIVIST

Mill Valley, CA

Pam David was born in 1952 in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in nearby Highland Park, historically one of two villages on Chicago’s north shore...
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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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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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Luigi Ferrer

bisexual activist, HIV community activist

Miami, FL

Luigi Ferrer was born in 1958 in Ponce, Puerto Rico. During his childhood, he bounced between Puerto Rico and Columbia, South Carolina, then attended the...
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Chuck Forester

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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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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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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Clyde Hall

Native American Activist and Culture Authority

Fort Hall, ID

Clyde Hall was born on April 8, 1951 in Pocatello, Idaho. Coming from the Shoshone Métis tribe, Clyde grew up on the Fort Hall Reservation....
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ABilly S. Jones-Hennin

organizer, 1979 March on washington; bisexual activist

Washington D.C., DC

ABilly Jones-Hennin was born in 1942 on St. John’s, Antigua and adopted at age three by civil rights activists with nine other adopted kids.  After...
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