Bradley Picklesimer

drag performer, nightclub proprietor

Meally, KY

Bradley Picklesimer was born on March 15, 1958, in Lexington, Kentucky. One of four children, Bradley had a happy early childhood with a father who...
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Steve Pieters

pastor, HIV survivor, “Eyes of Tammy Faye” interviewee

Los Angeles, CA

Steve Pieters was born on August 2nd, 1952 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He grew up on the campus of Phillips Academy, Andover, where his father worked...
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Barbara Poma

Owner, Pulse Nightclub

Maitland, FL

Barbara Poma was born in 1968 and raised in Coral Springs, Florida. After graduating from the University of Central Florida, she taught writing, debate, and...
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K.C. Potter

university dean and lgbtq students advocate

Centerville, TN

K.C. Potter was born in 1939 at Fallsburg, Kentucky. In high school, K.C. wrote sport stories for the local newspaper, and participated in speech tournaments...
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Cheryl Qamar

Lebanese-American therapist, former lesbian separatist

Saugerties, NY

Cheryl Qamar was born on October 17, 1950 in Wichita, Kansas, and grew up on the east side of Wichita–the only Arab family on that...
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Don Quaintance

rural men’s circle founder

Centerville, MN

Don Quaintance was born in 1941 on a farm in Cherokee, Iowa. He was the oldest of eight children in a working-class family that moved...
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Margaret Randall

FEMINIST POET, WRITER, PHOTOGRAPHER, PEACE ACTIVIST

Albuquerque, NM

Margaret Randall was born on December 6th, 1936, in New York City. Growing up, she had occasional crushes on women but gave little thought to...
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Donna Red Wing

activist, organizer, reconciler

Des Moines, IA

For more than 30 years, Donna Red Wing was a national leader in the fight for human rights, civil rights and LGBTQ equality. The Christian...
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Diana Rivers

LESBIAN ACTIVIST, AUTHOR, ARTIST, NATURALIST

Elkins, AR

Born in New York City on Oct 17, 1931, Diana Smith (later Diana Rivers) grew up near Morristown, New Jersey, within an artistic and literary...
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Alexei Romanoff

1967 Black cat protest organizer

Pasadena, CA

Alexei Romanoff was born in the Ukraine in 1936, fled with his family to the United States during World War II, and came of age...
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Amy Ross

PATHOLOGIST, LGBTQ+ SCIENTISTS ORGANIZER

Los Angeles, CA

Amy Ross was born in La Crescenta, California on April 28, 1953, and grew up in nearby Glendale. Semi-rural and idyllic in its own way,...
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Esther Rothblum

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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Joan Roughgarden

Transgender biologist and author

Kapaʻa, HI

Joan Roughgarden was born on March 13, 1946 in Peterson, New Jersey. Her father worked as a missionary and construction engineer for the Episcopal Church,...
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Matt Russell

former Catholic seminarian; sustainable agriculture activist

Lacona, IA

A fifth-generation Iowa farmer, Matt Russell was born in 1970 and raised in the rural community of Anita, Iowa. Of the 28 students in Matt’s...
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Donna Sachet

Drag performer, community activist, fundraiser, and author

San Francisco, CA

Donna Sachet was born Kirk Reeves in 1954, in South Carolina. Kirk’s young life was marked by a violent, alcoholic father, and a mother afraid...
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Alex Sanchez

Immigrant, Young Adult fiction author

East Rochester, NY

Alex Sanchez was born in Mexico City in 1957 to a German-Mexican father and a Cuban mother. At age five, his family moved to Austin,...
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