Jan Edwards

SCHOOL TEACHER & COUNSELOR, COMMUNITY ACTIVIST

Sonoma, CA

Jan Edwards was born on March 30, 1938 in Cleveland, the first of two daughters born to James Borgia, who was of Sicilian descent, and...
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Denise Eger

Pioneering lesbian rabbi; ally to congregants with HIV

Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, CA

Rabbi Denise Eger was born on March 14, 1960 in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Her devout Jewish family settled in Memphis, Tennessee around 1972. Rabbi Eger...
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Sokari Ekine

Blogger, Author, Photographer, Activist

Richmond, VA

Sokari was born on May 15th 1949 in London, UK. After four years of living with their grandmother, they moved to Lagos, Nigeria to live...
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Beth Elliott

TRANS LESBIAN FOLK SINGER, ACTIVIST, WRITER

Oakland, CA

Beth Elliott was born on November 26, 1950 in Vallejo, California. As a child, she experienced a feeling of being at odds with her gender....
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Oliva Espín

CUBAN REFUGEE, IMMIGRANT SEXUALITY RESEARCHER

San Diego, CA

Oliva Espin was born on December 12, 1938 in Santiago de Cuba. She grew up in Havana, where her father ran a school. Her mother...
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Arden Eversmeyer

founder, old lesbian oral history project

Houston, TX

Arden Eversmeyer was born on April 4, 1931, in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. She moved with her parents and younger sister to Dallas, Texas in 1943....
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Lillian Faderman

Award-Winning Lesbian Author, Scholar, Historian

San Diego, CA

Lillian Faderman, born on July 18th, 1940 in the Bronx,  moved with her mother to Boyle Heights in Los Angeles in 1948. Lillian’s father refused...
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Jan Felshin and Edrie Ferdun

Teachers and Mentors

Cherry Grove, PA

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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L. Frank

Tongva, Ajachmem, and Rarámuri artist, indigenous language activist

Santa Rosa, CA

Editor’s Note: L. Frank’s pronoun is pó, calling us to practice Native language to convey two-spirit and Native identity nuances the English language cannot. Frank...
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Nanette Gartrell and Dee Mosbacher

psychiatrists in research and film

San Francisco, CA

Nanette Gartrell, MD and Diane (Dee) Mosbacher, MD, PhD are psychiatrists in love. Dee is also a filmmaker and social justice activist; and Nanette is...
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Jewelle Gomez

black lesbian vampire novelist

San Francisco, CA

Jewelle Gomez was born on September 11, 1948 and grew up in Boston. Jewelle is of Cape Verdean/Wampanoag/Ioway descent, and was largely raised by her...
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Cassandra Grant

co-founder, salsa soul sisters

Brooklyn, NY

Cassandra Grant was born in 1947 in New York City. Her family lived in the Lincoln Projects in Harlem, a haven for Black World War...
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Beverly Greene

Author, Psychologist, APA Leader

Brooklyn, NY

Beverly Greene was born in 1950 in East Orange, New Jersey. She grew up in a multi-generational household within a close-knit local community; she describes...
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Susan Griffin

environmental feminist author and activist

Berkeley, CA

Susan Griffin was born in Los Angeles, California in 1943. She came into the world at a time of global war and the Holocaust. These...
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Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

transgender women of color activist

Little Rock, AR

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy was born in the 1940s in Chicago, Illinois. Around age 13, she came out to her parents as transgender. After a psychologist,...
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Michela Griffo

Gay Liberation Front radical; artist

New York, NY

Michela Griffo was born in 1949 in Rochester, New York, into a large, unruly family of Irish, Germans, Italians—what Michela calls the United Nations of...
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