Coming Out
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Champion Fencer, Veteran, Trans Activist
Louisville, KY
Dawn Josephine Wilson was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1967. Dawn’s mother and father raised her in the Pentecostal church. After the passing of her...
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Corporate leader and marriage equality advocate
Provincetown, MA
David Wilson was born in 1944 in Boston, to Black parents who worked as domestics for White families around the perimeter of Boston. They would...
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military veteran; technology entrepreneur; motorcyclist
The Villages, FL
Charlotte Wilson was born in 1947 in Oklahoma City. Her father, who was part native American, was stationed in Australia during World War II; that’s...
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Blind poet, disability activist
Falls Church, VA
In 1952, Kathi Wolfe was born six months premature and legally blind in Southern New Jersey. Since early childhood, she wanted to be a writer...
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architect of the national marriage equality movement
New York, NY
Evan Wolfson was born in 1957 in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Pittsburgh. His dad was a pediatrician; his mom was a housewife,...
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Japanese-American transgender attorney and trailblazer
Los Angeles, CA
Mia Frances Yamamoto’s parents were among 17,000 American civilians of Japanese ancestry who were interred by the US government at Poston, Arizona after the Japanese...
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founder, “The Wall / Las Memorias”; HIV educator
Los Angeles, CA
Richard Zaldivar was born in Los Angeles in 1952. His dad was Mexican, his mom Mexican-American. Richard’s family was deeply Catholic and early on, Richard...
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LGBT civil rights advocate, CA politician
Santa Monica, CA
Rick Chavez Zbur was born on March 2nd, 1957 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He grew up on a family farm in New Mexico’s Rio Grande...
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