Marriage Equality
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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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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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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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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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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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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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