Alex Sanchez

Immigrant, Young Adult fiction author

East Rochester, NY

Alex Sanchez was born in Mexico City in 1957 to a German-Mexican father and a Cuban mother. At age five, his family moved to Austin,...
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Lisa Scheps

Co-Founder of TENTS, Founder of Ground Floor Theatre

Austin, TX

Lisa Scheps was born on October 2nd, 1958 to an upper middle class Jewish family in Houston, Texas. Her parents signed her up for a...
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Guy Seiler

farm boy, teacher, fisting educator

Tajique, NM

Guy Seiler was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1955, the fourth of nine children in a German Catholic family, and raised on a wheat farm...
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Patty Sheehan

First openly LGBTQ elected official in central Florida

Orlando, FL

Patty Sheehan was born on July 6, 1961, in Cleveland, Ohio. Raised in a deeply conservative Catholic family, she remembers telling a friend at age...
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Kim Stacy

rural woodworker and home builder

Willisburg, KY

Kim Stacy was born in 1957 in Hyden, Kentucky. Her birth was attended to by caregivers from the Frontier Nurse program, who for more than...
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Carmen Vázquez

Puerto Rican-American activist and health care advocate

Brooklyn, NY

Carmen Vázquez was born on January 13, 1949 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico to a WWII veteran and a seamstress. Her parents migrated to New York...
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David Wilson

Corporate leader and marriage equality advocate

Provincetown, MA

David Wilson was born in 1944 in Boston, to Black parents who worked as domestics for White families around the perimeter of Boston. They would...
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Richard Zaldivar

founder, “The Wall / Las Memorias”; HIV educator

Los Angeles, CA

Richard Zaldivar was born in Los Angeles in 1952. His dad was Mexican, his mom Mexican-American. Richard’s family was deeply Catholic and early on, Richard...
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