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founder, Black AIDS Institute
Los Angeles, CA
Phill Wilson was born in 1956 in Chicago, Illinois. Although his parents didn’t have much money, they gave him the most important thing: unconditional love....
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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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architect of the national marriage equality movement
New York, NY
Evan Wolfson was born in 1957 in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Pittsburgh. His dad was a pediatrician; his mom was a housewife,...
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gay philanthropy pioneer
Palm Springs, CA
Rob Wright was born in 1949 in Denver, grew up there, and got his degree in economics from the University of Colorado in Boulder. During...
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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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LGBT civil rights advocate, CA politician
Santa Monica, CA
Rick Chavez Zbur was born on March 2nd, 1957 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He grew up on a family farm in New Mexico’s Rio Grande...
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