Coming Out
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LGBTQ+ policymaker, Former Mayor of Palm Springs
Palm Springs, CA
Geoff Kors was born on April 30, 1961 in New York City, the grandchild of Eastern European immigrants. His father was a lawyer and his...
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Entrepreneur, bisexual rights activist
West Hollywood, CA
Arlene Krantz was born on September 5, 1939, into a Jewish family in Philadelphia. Her mother was a passionate reader, a trait that Arlene inherited...
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KAUAI COUNCIL MEMBER AND PRIDE MARSHAL
Anahola, HI
KipuKai L.P. Kuali’i was born on Kauai, in Lihue, Hawaii, on March 17, 1962, to a Native Hawaiian father and a Portuguese mother. His parents...
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South Asian LGBTQ+ activist; Trikone co-founder
San Jose, CA
Arvind Kumar was born on January 1, 1956, in Varanasi, India. Growing up in a joint family in Bihar, he had a conservative Hindu grandfather...
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foster kid; inclusive queer club owner
Los Angeles, CA
Gene La Pietra was born on St. Patrick’s Day in 1948, in Providence, Rhode Island. By the age of seven, he had lived in five...
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Black Trans Activist, Hairstylist
Memphis, TN
La’Cretia La’Mour was born on September 29, 1947 in Tupelo, Mississippi. She grew up in the Shake Rag area of Tupelo, in a segregated community...
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AAPI lesbian activist; ceiling-smashing civil servant
Temple City, CA
June Lagmay was born in Yokohama, Japan and grew up in Historic Filipinotown in Los Angeles. In high school in 1968, she and Rita Romero...
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traiblazing lesbian photojournalist
Kennett Square, PA
From very early on, Kay Lahusen loved sports, and taking pictures with her box camera. So it’s not surprising that she went on to become...
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Feminist and AIDS advocacy leader
Denver, CO
Carol Lease was born in Denver, Colorado in 1948, the third of nine children in a staunchly Catholic family. In 1966, she headed off to...
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Idaho's First Out Elected Official
Boise, ID
Cole LeFavour was born on February 8, 1964 in Aspen, Colorado. Raised by unconventional parents in a loving, nurturing household, they grew up with ample...
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president, NY Mattachine Society; sit-in organizer
New York, NY
Dick Leitsch was born in 1935 in Louisville, Kentucky. While in high school, he came out to his Catholic parents, who took his revelation in...
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Trans Health Activist and Educator, Artist
San Francisco, CA
Yoseñio Lewis was born in October 1959 in Newport, Rhode Island. A transgender man and Latino of African descent, he is also a trans rights...
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Gay Catholic theologian
Little Rock, AR
William Lindsey was born on March 30, 1950. After a childhood in Little Rock and El Dorado, Arkansas, Bill pursued an academic career. He received...
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Navy veteran, transgender activist
Bay Saint Louis, MS
Crystal Little was born in 1943 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and named Charles. The second of seven kids in his family, Charles never felt a...
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