Mandy Carter

Nobel-nominated civil rights organizer

Durham, NC

Mandy Carter was born in 1948 in Albany, New York. Within a couple months of being born, Mandy and her two siblings were abandoned by...
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Connie Chan

Asian-American Sexual Minority Professor and Researcher

Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Connie Chan was born on January 16, 1954 in Hong Kong. Her father owned a stevedoring company in Shanghai, but in the wake of communism...
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Anne Charles and Linda Quinlan

writers; public access show co-hosts

Montpelier, VT

Anne Charles was born on May 14, 1951, in Houston, Texas. She was raised by her single mother in Buffalo, New York, and never knew...
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Karen Clark

groundbreaking Minnesota politician

Minneapolis, MN

Karen was born in 1945 in Oklahoma, but her family soon moved to a farm in Edgerton, Minnesota. Because her family were sharecroppers, Karen learned...
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Emma Colquitt-Sayers

Medical care entrepreneur

Grand Prairie, TX

Emma Colquitt-Sayers was born in 1953 in Alabama, and grew up mostly in Hastings, Florida with her grandmother, a share cropper who taught her the...
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Gwenn Craig

Mentee of Harvey Milk, activist for human rights and the Democratic Party

Daly City, CA

Gwenn Craig was born on April 14, 1951 in Atlanta, Georgia. She grew up on the Gammon Theological Seminary campus where her father worked as...
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Jennifer Crossen

adoption trailblazer

Lawrenceburg, KY

Jennifer Crossen was born in 1957 in Yokosuka, Japan, where her father was stationed as a  doctor in the U.S. Navy. At three, Jennifer’s family...
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Pam David

SOCIAL JUSTICE & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ACTIVIST

Mill Valley, CA

Pam David was born in 1952 in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in nearby Highland Park, historically one of two villages on Chicago’s north shore...
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Terri de la Peña

Chicana writer, early Santa Monica family descendant

Santa Monica, CA

Terri de la Peña was born on February 20, 1947 in Santa Monica, California. Her father was a descendant of the Marquez family, one of...
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Olivia DeSersa

Two-Spirit Caretaker, Family Pillar

Manderson, SD

Olivia DeSersa was born on April 2, 1965 in Rosebud, South Dakota. Her father ran a local newspaper and her mother worked as a nurse...
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Toni Diamond

DISABLED VETERAN, 1ST TRANS CANDIDATE FOR STATE OFFICE IN SD

Rapid City, SD

Toni Diamond was born in St. Louis Park, Minnesota on January 16th 1968. She grew up in a physically, emotionally, and mentally abusive home, which...
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Rochelle A. Diamond

CALTECH SCIENTIST, QUEER ACTIVIST

Pasadena, CA

Rochelle Anne “Shelley” Diamond was born on August 9, 1951, in Phoenix, Arizona. Both her parents came from merchandising families, and her Jewish family owned...
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Rosa Diaz

Founder, Imperial Valley LGBT Resource Center

Brawley, CA

Rosa Diaz was born on September 30, 1960, in Sonora, Mexico. Rosa spent most of her childhood in Brawley, California, a predominantly Hispanic and Black...
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Marianne Diaz

community mental health activist

Phillips Ranch, Pomona, CA

Marianne Diaz was born in Santa Monica, California, and grew up in Lennox, a poor neighborhood in the flight path of Los Angeles International Airport....
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Diane Divelbess

Artist, professor

Langley, WA

Born June 21, 1935, in Phoenix, Arizona, Diane Divelbess has been “an artist all her life.”  She received a BA degree from Scripps College and...
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Elana Dykewomon

lesbian novelist, fat activist

Oakland, CA

Elana Dykewomon was born on October 11, 1949 in New York. She grew up in a Jewish American household, with a father who fought in...
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