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university dean and lgbtq students advocate
Centerville, TN
K.C. Potter was born in 1939 at Fallsburg, Kentucky. In high school, K.C. wrote sport stories for the local newspaper, and participated in speech tournaments...
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rural men’s circle founder
Centerville, MN
Don Quaintance was born in 1941 on a farm in Cherokee, Iowa. He was the oldest of eight children in a working-class family that moved...
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1967 Black cat protest organizer
Pasadena, CA
Alexei Romanoff was born in the Ukraine in 1936, fled with his family to the United States during World War II, and came of age...
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former Catholic seminarian; sustainable agriculture activist
Lacona, IA
A fifth-generation Iowa farmer, Matt Russell was born in 1970 and raised in the rural community of Anita, Iowa. Of the 28 students in Matt’s...
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Drag performer, community activist, fundraiser, and author
San Francisco, CA
Donna Sachet was born Kirk Reeves in 1954, in South Carolina. Kirk’s young life was marked by a violent, alcoholic father, and a mother afraid...
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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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Turkish Dancer & Choreographer Living with HIV
İstanbul, Turkey
Mehmet Sander was born in Mettman, Germany on January 20, 1967. His family moved to Istanbul when he was 11 months old. Mehmet was surrounded...
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co-founder, ACT UP NY; founder, Housing Works
NYC, NY
Eric Sawyer was born in 1954 in Binghamton, New York. Although his parents had little money and even less in the way of social standing,...
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Stonewall witness, publisher, Philadelphia Gay News
Philadelphia, PA
Mark Segal was born in Philadelphia, and raised in the only Jewish household in his public housing project. As a child, he learned of friends...
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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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Staten Island preservationist; former minister
Staten Island, NY
Legacy of Voices is an oral history project created in 2008 by Lara Spotts and Brian O’Donnell, inspired by their realization that to better understand...
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gay mental health reformer; author, The Joy of Gay Sex
New York, NY
Charles Silverstein was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1935, and grew up in what he describes as a very typical Jewish family of that era:...
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rural gay bar owner
Gun Barrel City, TX
Michael Slingerland was born in 1950 in Greeley, Colorado. The youngest of three boys, Michael lost his mom when he was an infant. When Michael...
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coast guard physician, anti-DADT activist
Olympia, WA
Alan Steinman was born in Newark, Ohio on February 7, 1945. He graduated from MIT in 1966 and went on to receive his M.D. from...
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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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Intersex activist, giant, early legally non-binary person
San Francisco, CA
David Cameron Strachan was born in 1947 in Deep River, Ontario, and grew up in Walnut Creek, California. His family was very religious and attended...
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