Linda Gryczan

Lead Plaintiff to Legalize Gay Sex in Montana

Helena, MT

Linda Gryczan was born on September 23rd, 1953, the oldest of five siblings, and grew up in Western Colorado. At 11 years old, she read...
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Kathie Hiers

FOUNDER / CEO, AIDS ALABAMA

Birmingham, AL

Kathie Hiers was born on October 5th, 1954 in Mobile, Alabama. She might have been born in Joliet, Illinois, where her family lived at the...
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Alice Hom

Non-profit manager, Queer Asian-American RIghts Activist

Oakland, CA

Alice Hom (she/they) was born on March 6, 1967 in Los Angeles, California and grew up in a working class Chinese American family. Their father...
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Pat Hussain

Co-founder, Southerners On New Ground (SONG)

Decatur, GA

Pat Hussain was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1950. She attended segregated schools though high school. In 1963, Pat attended a civil rights sit-in at...
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Karla Jay

Lavender Menace activist, author, educator

New York, NY

Karla Jay was born February 22, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York. Her primary school mistook her vision problem as a sign of intellectual inability and...
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Lorri L. Jean

Former CEO of Los Angeles LGBT Center

Los Angeles, CA

Lorri L. Jean was born on March 7th, 1957 in Boise, Idaho. She was the eldest child on the family farm, and she was handed...
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Phyllis Jenkins

Award-winning nurse, great-great-grandmother, and healthcare envoy to Africa

New York, 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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Sheila Kuehl

Child Actor, first out LGBT legislator in CA

Santa Monica, CA

Sheila Kuehl was born on February 8, 1941. Her family moved from St. Louis to Los Angeles when she was 2 years old because her...
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June Lagmay

AAPI lesbian activist; ceiling-smashing civil servant

Temple City, CA

June Lagmay was born in Yokohama, Japan and grew up in Historic Filipinotown in Los Angeles. In high school in 1968, she and Rita Romero...
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Kay Lahusen

traiblazing lesbian photojournalist

Kennett Square, PA

From very early on, Kay Lahusen loved sports, and taking pictures with her box camera. So it’s not surprising that she went on to become...
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Trella Ann Laughlin

international human rights filmmaker and activist

Eureka Springs, AR

TrellaLaughlin was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1937. After her mother died, Trellagrew up in her grandmother’s boarding house. Trella’s family was white. Her primary...
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Carol Lease

Feminist and AIDS advocacy leader

Denver, CO

Carol Lease was born in Denver, Colorado in 1948, the third of nine children in a staunchly Catholic family. In 1966, she headed off to...
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Lee Marquardt

late-blooming lesbian activist

Los Angeles, CA

Lee LeFaive Marquardt was born in 1942 in Jackson, Michigan. During World War II, Lee’s parents worked in factories to support their seven children. Afterwards,...
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Gail A. Marquis

women’s basketball player, 1976 silver medal Olympian

Jersey City, NJ

Gail Marquis was born in New York City in 1954 and grew up in St. Albans, Queens, NY. She grew up in a large family...
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Judith Masur

Original Member of Fat Lip Readers Theater and Artist

Berkeley, CA

Judith Masur was born on February 22, 1946 in Manhattan, New York. She was raised in Yonkers with her brother, the actor Richard Masur. From...
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Marge McCann

Daughters of Bilitis activist, urban planner

Kennett Square, PA

Marjorie (Marge) McCann was born in 1939 in New Jersey, the eldest of five children. When she was a freshman in high school, her family...
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