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lawyer; founder, Trans People of Color Coalition
Washington D.C., DC
Kylar William Broadus was born on August 28, 1963 in Fayette, Missouri. His parents—William, a truck driver, and Fannie, a supervisor of housekeeping—instilled in their...
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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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Black Trans Activist, Human Right's Advocate
Washington D.C., DC
Earline Budd was born on August 14, 1958 in Washington, DC, where she grew up in a very religious family. Assigned male at birth, Earline...
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Lifelong rock star, singer songwriter, trans man
Nashville, TN
Cidny Bullens was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Massachusetts and Maine. His family was middle class and conservative. As a young musician...
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Groundbreaking marriage equality activist
Milwaukee WI
Donna Burkett was born in 1946 at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, and moved to Milwaukee with her family at age eight. Her grandfather...
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Public Speaker, Mentor, Trans Equality Advocate
North Garden, VA
Charley Burton was born on May 27, 1960 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The city was segregated in his early childhood, and his parents were vocal advocates...
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engineer; founder, The Faerie Playhouse
New Orleans, LA
Stewart Butler was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1930, moved to New Orleans in 1932 and to Carville, Louisiana in 1941. He attended Louisiana State...
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1st openly trans Native American state legislator
San Antonio, TX
Stephanie Byers was born on February 5th, 1963, in Norman, Oklahoma, to a mother she describes as a “firecracker” and a gentle, studious father of...
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Bronze Star veteran, DADT challenger
Langley, WA
Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, commonly known as Grethe, was born on March 24, 1942 in Oslo, Norway. At age 9, she and her family immigrated to...
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Nobel-nominated civil rights organizer
Durham, NC
Mandy Carter was born in 1948 in Albany, New York. Within a couple months of being born, Mandy and her two siblings were abandoned by...
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Asian-American Sexual Minority Professor and Researcher
Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Connie Chan was born on January 16, 1954 in Hong Kong. Her father owned a stevedoring company in Shanghai, but in the wake of communism...
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Anne Charles and Linda Quinlan
writers; public access show co-hosts
Montpelier, VT
Anne Charles was born on May 14, 1951, in Houston, Texas. She was raised by her single mother in Buffalo, New York, and never knew...
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Immigrant, Transgender Social Justice Advocate
San Francisco, CA
Cecilia Chung was born on July 28, 1965 in Hong Kong to her Catholic mother, Dawning, and her father, William. Cecilia often found herself challenging...
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groundbreaking Minnesota politician
Minneapolis, MN
Karen was born in 1945 in Oklahoma, but her family soon moved to a farm in Edgerton, Minnesota. Because her family were sharecroppers, Karen learned...
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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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1st Black Trans Woman on Presidential HIV/AIDS Council
College Park, GA
Tori Cooper is a health and equity advocate, community organizer, author, and leading figure in the transgender and HIV communities. Tori was born on May...
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