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TRANS LESBIAN FOLK SINGER, ACTIVIST, WRITER
Oakland, CA
Beth Elliott was born on November 26, 1950 in Vallejo, California. As a child, she experienced a feeling of being at odds with her gender....
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CUBAN REFUGEE, IMMIGRANT SEXUALITY RESEARCHER
San Diego, CA
Oliva Espin was born on December 12, 1938 in Santiago de Cuba. She grew up in Havana, where her father ran a school. Her mother...
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founder, old lesbian oral history project
Houston, TX
Arden Eversmeyer was born on April 4, 1931, in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. She moved with her parents and younger sister to Dallas, Texas in 1943....
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Award-Winning Lesbian Author, Scholar, Historian
San Diego, CA
Lillian Faderman, born on July 18th, 1940 in the Bronx, moved with her mother to Boyle Heights in Los Angeles in 1948. Lillian’s father refused...
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Teachers and Mentors
Cherry Grove, PA
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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bisexual activist, HIV community activist
Miami, FL
Luigi Ferrer was born in 1958 in Ponce, Puerto Rico. During his childhood, he bounced between Puerto Rico and Columbia, South Carolina, then attended the...
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TWO-SPIRIT LEADER, MEDICINE MAN
Blackfoot, ID
Marlon “Marty” Fixico was born in 1957 in Oklahoma to a Seminole father and a Cheyenne mother. Marty’s early awareness of his attraction to men...
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Author, critic, HIV rights educator
Sebastopol, CA
Chuck Forester was born on February 23, 1944, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He grew up in Wausau, WI, where his father worked as the Yawkey estate...
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Pansy Division co-founders, gay rock stars
California
Jon Ginoli was born in Peoria, Illinois In December 1959. Twenty months later, Chris Freeman was born in Seattle, Washington. Some 30 years later, Jon...
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Freeman Thomas Freeman and Steve Levine
Sexuality workshop organizers
Wayne, NY
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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DISABILITY ACTIVIST & WRITER
Berlin, Germany
Kenny Fries was born on September 22, 1960, to a lower middle class Jewish household in Brooklyn. Kenny was born with fibular hemimelia, a congenital...
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first openly transgender judge in U.S.
Houston, TX
At her birth in 1948, Phyllis Randolph Frye was named Phillip. Growing up in Texas, Phillip became an Eagle Scout and was the commander of...
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Nanette Gartrell and Dee Mosbacher
psychiatrists in research and film
San Francisco, CA
Nanette Gartrell, MD and Diane (Dee) Mosbacher, MD, PhD are psychiatrists in love. Dee is also a filmmaker and social justice activist; and Nanette is...
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MATTACHINE ACTIVIST, HAIRDRESSER
New York, NY
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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FOUNDING MEMBER, NATIONAL COALITION OF BLACK LESBIANS AND GAYS
Cathedral City, CA
From the earliest moments of Gil’s life in Panama, his father taught him the importance of improvisation and truth, both of which would shape Gil’s...
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Gay Rights and Liberation Activist, Lawyer
Palm Springs, CA
Gerald “Jerry” Gerash was born on February 19th, 1934, in the Bronx, New York, to immigrant Russian Jewish parents. He grew up surrounded by families...
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