Franklin Abbott

RADICAL FAERIE, THERAPIST, POET

Decatur, GA

Franklin Abbot was born in 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up in Birmingham, Buffalo, and Nashville. As a kid, Franklin marched to the beat...
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Marcy Adelman

Psychologist, wellness non-profit founder

San Francisco, CA

Marcy Adelman was born on August 12th, 1946, in Boston, Massachusetts. She was raised in a multigenerational household infused with values of history, family, and...
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Dante Alencastre

award-winning LGBTQ+ documentary filmmaker

Los Angeles, CA

Dante Alencastre was born in Lima, Peru in 1961. He was raised by his single mother, a nurse, in an apartment alongside his grandfather and...
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Juan-Manuel Alonso

Cuban-American fashion designer and HIV activist

Palm Springs, CA

Juan-Manuel Alonso was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1952. He spent his infancy and early childhood in a country in the midst of revolution. After...
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Noel Alumit

Writer, actor, HIV educator, meditation teacher

Los Angeles, CA

Noel Alumit was born on January 1, 1968 in Baguio City, Philippines. Noel’s family moved to Boston when he was 2 years old when his...
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Cliff Arnesen

VETERAN & BISEXUAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST

Canton, MA

Cliff Arnesen was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1948. His father was an alcoholic merchant marine and longshoreman. His...
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Robert Arrington

pastor, HIV community activist

Charleston, SC

Robert Arrington was born February 1960 in Harlem, New York to. He grew up as one of three siblings with a strict father and a...
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Al Baum

Lawyer, urban planner, psychotherapist, philanthropist

San Francisco, CA

Al Baum was born in 1930 and raised in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park. His father was a successful investment counselor, and hoped that...
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Deborah Moncrief Bell

Lifelong community organizer

Houston, TX

Born in 1950, Deborah Moncrief Bell grew up as one of five children in a working-class family in Birmingham, Alabama. Her father was a carpenter...
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Ada Bello

Cuban-American chemist and lesbian activist

Philadelphia, PA

Ada Bello was born into a middle-class family in 1933 in Havana, Cuba. Aware from early on that she was attracted to girls, she also...
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Richard Bentley

Accountant, AIDS crisis survivor

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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Jolino Beserra and David Edward Byrd

Power Artist Couple: Mosaics and Music Posters

Los Angeles, CA

David Edward Byrd was born on August 4, 1941 in Cleveland, Tennessee. His parents split up promptly afterwards, so David grew up spending his school...
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Brett Bigham

Oregon Teacher of the Year

Portland, OR

Brett Bigham was born on June 24, 1964, in Sparks, Nevada. Throughout childhood, Brett was a frequent target for his older brother’s violence, and he...
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Blackberri

Musician, Yoruba priest, AIDS activist

Oakland, CA

Blackberri was born in 1945 in Buffalo, New York, and named Charles Timothy Ashmore. From early on, he was comfortable with and even proud of...
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David Bohnett

Internet technology entrepreneur; philanthropist

Los Angeles, CA

David Bohnett was born April 2, 1956. His father was a business executive and his mother a preschool teacher. David earned his BS in Business...
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Patrick Bova

public opinion researcher and activist

Chicago, IL

Patrick Bova was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1938. His grandparents had come to America from Italy in the late 19th century. Patrick had three...
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