David Cameron Strachan

Intersex activist, giant, early legally non-binary person

San Francisco, CA

David Cameron Strachan was born in 1947 in Deep River, Ontario, and grew up in Walnut Creek, California. His family was very religious and attended...
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Susan Stryker

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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Stephanie Stuart Wilson

"Drag Queen Story Hour" host

New Port Richey, FL

Stephanie Stuart was born in a strawberry patch in Plant City, Florida on December 30th 1965. Growing up, she always knew she was different and...
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Mike Szymanski

Bisexual Activist, Porn Writer, and Journalist with MS

Los Angeles, CA

Mike Szymanski was born on September 1, 1960 in Baltimore, Maryland. As part of a military family, he moved around a lot, living in Hawaii,...
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Bernard Talbot

disability physician, world traveler

Montreal, QC, Canada

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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Zeek Taylor

artist, storyteller; gay marriage trailblazer

Eureka Springs, AR

Zeek Taylor was born in the Arkansas Delta in 1946, and raised in the small town of Marmaduke, where his mother was a hairdresser and...
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Duncan Teague

Minister, artist, and HIV/AIDS advocate

Decatur, GA

Duncan Teague’s parents met at choir rehearsal at his local Baptist church, and his father was a retired Baptist minister. Duncan was born on January...
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Joey Terrill

Chicano artist, community activist

Glendale, CA

A second-generation Mexican-American, Joey Terrill was born on October 8, 1955, in Los Angeles. Joey’s father was an artist and furniture maker; his mother was...
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Jewel Thais-Williams

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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Ann Thomas

Founder of Transgender Talent

Anaheim, CA

Ann Thomas was born on October 14, 1962 in Seattle, Washington. At age 3, her family moved to Vashon Island in the middle of Puget...
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Stephan Thorne

Trans Police Officer

Oakland, CA

Stephan 'Steph' Thorne was born on September 2nd, 1954, in Hillsboro, Oregon. He grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, where his mother moved the family to...
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Jim Toy

Chinese-American university gay rights activist

Ann Arbor, MI

Jim Toy was born in 1930, in Manhattan, to a Scotch-Irish-American mother and Chinese-American father. After Jim’s mother passed away, his father moved the family...
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John Whittier Treat

Stutterer, Professor, and Novelist

Seattle, WA

John Whittier Treat was born on August 10, 1953 in New Haven, Connecticut, and was raised Catholic in a close-knit family. At age twelve, John...
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Jean-Nickolaus Tretter

LGBTQ historian

St Paul, MN

Jean Tretter was born in 1946, in Little Falls, Minnesota, into a German-Catholic family who had immigrated to the United States a century before. During...
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Kitty Tsui

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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Lamar Van Dyke

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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