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Psychologist, wellness non-profit founder
San Francisco, CA
Marcy Adelman was born on August 12th, 1946, in Boston, Massachusetts. She was raised in a multigenerational household infused with values of history, family, and...
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Proud Parent Ally, Author, Public Speaker, founder of Okaeri
Pasadena, CA
Marsha Aizumi was born on May 28, 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio. Her parents were originally from Southern California, but were displaced to the midwest from...
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award-winning LGBTQ+ documentary filmmaker
Los Angeles, CA
Dante Alencastre was born in Lima, Peru in 1961. He was raised by his single mother, a nurse, in an apartment alongside his grandfather and...
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Musician, Yoruba priest, AIDS activist
Oakland, CA
Blackberri was born in 1945 in Buffalo, New York, and named Charles Timothy Ashmore. From early on, he was comfortable with and even proud of...
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HIV activist, community manager, women's advocate
Chalmette, LA
Gina Brown was born on January 15, 1966 in Pittsburgh, California. Up until age 4, her family lived happily in a middle class neighborhood. When...
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Non-binary teacher and administrator
St. Louis, MO
Elaine Brune was born on June 30, 1955, in Kansas City, Missouri. Growing up in a tight-knit family and neighborhood, Elaine learned to value independence,...
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retail salesperson, Black community activist
Covina, CA
Rodney Church was born in South Central Los Angeles in August 1965, barely two weeks after the Watts Riots devastated the neighborhood and claimed 34...
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JOHN WATERS INGENUE, TRANS TRAILBLAZER
Philadelphia, PA
Elizabeth Coffey-Williams was born in 1948 in Brooklyn, New York, and at the age of 5, moved with her parents to Philadelphia. Her dad was...
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university dean, HIV educator
Newark, NJ
James Credle was born in 1945 in Mesic, a small town on North Carolina’s eastern shore. After graduating from the all-black Pamlico County Training School...
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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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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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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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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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MATTACHINE ACTIVIST, HAIRDRESSER
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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Co-founder of Homan Los Angeles, Psychotherapist, Author
West Hollywood, CA
Payam Ghassemlou was born in 1966 in Tehran, Iran. From a young age, Payam realized he was different from his peers, identifying as gay in...
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