Gwenn Craig

Mentee of Harvey Milk, activist for human rights and the Democratic Party

Daly City, CA

Gwenn Craig was born on April 14, 1951 in Atlanta, Georgia. She grew up on the Gammon Theological Seminary campus where her father worked as...
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Joey Criddle

Arena Director for Two-Spirit Gatherings

Elkins, AR

Joey Criddle was born on January 9, 1961 in Eupora, Mississippi. His mother was Jicarilla Apache and his father was white, and Joey grew up...
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Jennifer Crossen

adoption trailblazer

Lawrenceburg, KY

Jennifer Crossen was born in 1957 in Yokosuka, Japan, where her father was stationed as a  doctor in the U.S. Navy. At three, Jennifer’s family...
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Pam David

SOCIAL JUSTICE & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ACTIVIST

Mill Valley, CA

Pam David was born in 1952 in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in nearby Highland Park, historically one of two villages on Chicago’s north shore...
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Sharon Day

Indigenous HIV community activist; Water Walker

St Paul, MN

Sharon Day was born in 1951 in Northern Minnesota. Both of her parents were enrolled members of Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe. She grew up...
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Terri de la Peña

Chicana writer, early Santa Monica family descendant

Santa Monica, CA

Terri de la Peña was born on February 20, 1947 in Santa Monica, California. Her father was a descendant of the Marquez family, one of...
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Olivia DeSersa

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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Toni Diamond

DISABLED VETERAN, 1ST TRANS CANDIDATE FOR STATE OFFICE IN SD

Rapid City, SD

Toni Diamond was born in St. Louis Park, Minnesota on January 16th 1968. She grew up in a physically, emotionally, and mentally abusive home, which...
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Marianne Diaz

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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Rosa Diaz

Founder, Imperial Valley LGBT Resource Center

Brawley, CA

Rosa Diaz was born on September 30, 1960, in Sonora, Mexico. Rosa spent most of her childhood in Brawley, California, a predominantly Hispanic and Black...
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Diane Divelbess

Artist, professor

Langley, WA

Born June 21, 1935, in Phoenix, Arizona, Diane Divelbess has been “an artist all her life.”  She received a BA degree from Scripps College and...
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JD Doyle

LGBTQ+ MUSIC / CULTURE PRESERVATIONIST

Houston, TX

JD Doyle was born on September 24, 1947 in Salem, Ohio. Growing up, JD discovered a passion for chemistry, and later earned his degree in...
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Martin Duberman

author, academic, activist

New York, NY

Martin Duberman is an American historian and writer, and one of the pre-eminent scholars of the LGBTQ movement. Martin was born in 1930. His father...
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Doc Duhon

BDSM & POLYAMORY EDUCATOR, HIV EDUCATOR

Palm Springs, CA

Doc Duhon was born in 1954 in Reno, Nevada. Two years later, Doc’s Cajun father moved the family to his home state of Louisiana. Doc’s...
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Tom Dyer

gay newspaper publisher

Winter Park, FL

Tom Dyer was born in Lancaster, Ohio in 1955. When he was 7 or 8, Tom was discovered by his brother and father playing Barbies...
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Jan Edwards

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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