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Lesbian Fat Acceptance Activist and Feminist Writer
San Francisco, CA
Esther Rothblum was born on January 11, 1955 in Vienna, Austria. Her family moved around often for her father’s job in foreign aid, and Esther...
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LGBTQ, AIDS, and racial equity advocate and activist
Portland, OR
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised in a family committed to justice and education, Kathleen Saadat graduated from Chicago’s Farragut High School in 1957...
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Montana Legislator, Activist, and Oral Historian
Missoula, MT
Diane Sands was born March 23, 1947 in St. Ignatius, Montana. Her family was among the few white families on a Native reservation, and both...
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nightlife proprietor, feminist, author, preservationist
Pass Christian, MS
In July 2017, OUTWORDS interviewed Barbara Scott, a true Southern grande dame lesbienne, at her home in Pass Christian, Mississippi, where Barbara also provided comfortable...
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First openly LGBTQ elected official in central Florida
Orlando, FL
Patty Sheehan was born on July 6, 1961, in Cleveland, Ohio. Raised in a deeply conservative Catholic family, she remembers telling a friend at age...
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Gay Liberation Front / Lavender Menace activist; writer
Portland, OR
Martha Altman (later Shelley) was born on December 27th, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish parents of Russian and Polish descent. At 17, she...
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artist, bisexual lesbian
Tucson, AZ
Penelope Starr was born in 1945 in New York, NY. As the daughter of two eccentric artists – her mother a jeweler and her father...
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Academic, Theorist, Honorary founder of Transgender Studies
Aptos, CA
Allucquére Rosanne "Sandy" Stone was born in New York City on June 1st, 1954. Sandy and her sister grew up in a conservative Jewish family...
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trans academic, filmmaker, and artist
San Francisco, CA
Susan Stryker was born into a White working-class family in Fort Sill, Oklahoma on July 7, 1961. Her father was an army Sergeant, and his...
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queer black dance club founder
Los Angeles, CA
Jewel Thais-Williams was born on May 9, 1939 in Gary, Indiana. The fifth of seven children, Jewel moved with her family to San Diego when...
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Chinese-American poet, Gay Games gold medalist
Oakland, CA
Kitty Tsui was born in Hong Kong in 1952 and spent her childhood there and in London before moving with her family to San Francisco...
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lesbian separatist, tattoo shop owner, painter
Seattle, WA
Lamar Van Dyke was born Heather Elizabeth Nelson in Canada in 1947, and grew up in Buffalo, New York. Lamar’s mother was a homemaker, and...
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South Asian author, activist, and professor
Missoula, MT
Ruth Vanita was born on December 19, 1955 in Rangoon, Burma. She grew up in West Delhi, where she filled her days playing with neighborhood...
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Puerto Rican-American activist and health care advocate
Brooklyn, NY
Carmen Vázquez was born on January 13, 1949 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico to a WWII veteran and a seamstress. Her parents migrated to New York...
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"The Experience" workshop leader, wellness activist
Santa Fe, NM
Honey Ward was born and raised in Southern California. At the age of 26, she participated in The Advocate Experience, a transformational weekend workshop (later...
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