Sophia Margeaux

Trans Wilderness Survivalist

Challis, ID

Sophia Margeaux was born Jon Winegarner in Hettinger, North Dakota in 1953. (Editor’s note: Sophia continues to use both names in different contexts. Sophia also...
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Shannon Minter

TRANS LEGAL ACTIVIST, FAITH RECONCILER

Washington D.C., DC

Shannon Minter was born on Valentine’s Day, 1961. He grew up female in a close-knit family and faith community in East Texas. In high school,...
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Tom Mosmiller

bisexual and pro-feminist men’s activist

Oakland, CA

Thomas Mosmiller was born September 19th, 1947, in Baltimore, the youngest child in a traditional Irish-German Catholic immigrant family. Tom attended an all-boys Catholic high...
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Nancy Nangeroni

Founder, GenderTalk radio

Los Ranchos, NM

Nancy Nangeroni was born in Boston, raised in Milton, Massachusetts, and graduated from MIT in 1976 with a degree in electrical engineering. After graduation, she...
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Robyn Ochs

Bisexual educator, activist, and author

Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA

Robyn Ochs was born in 1958 in San Antonio, Texas. She studied Language and Culture and Latin American Studies at the State University of New...
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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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Penelope Starr

artist, bisexual lesbian

Tucson, AZ

Penelope Starr was born in 1945 in New York, NY. As the daughter of two eccentric artists – her mother a jeweler and her father...
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Charles Stinson

psychiatrist, artist, sculptor

San Francisco, CA

Charles Stinson was born in 1952 in Temple, Texas. His parents, a professional cellist and a physician, were highly educated and pursued many interests —...
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Stephanie Stuart Wilson

"Drag Queen Story Hour" host

New Port Richey, FL

Stephanie Stuart was born in a strawberry patch in Plant City, Florida on December 30th 1965. Growing up, she always knew she was different and...
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Jessica Xavier

Trans Activist, Founder of Transgender Nation – Washington

Silver Spring, MD

Jessica Xavier was born in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1952. Growing up in a government family, Jessica was raised in a Roman Catholic household, later attending...
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