Same-Sex Marriage
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South Asian author, activist, and professor
Missoula, MT
Ruth Vanita was born on December 19, 1955 in Rangoon, Burma. She grew up in West Delhi, where she filled her days playing with neighborhood...
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rural gay men's community builder
Ukiah, CA
Ron Vanscoyk was born in 1949 in Logansport, Indiana, and moved with his family to San Diego in 1953. Although he was attracted to boys...
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Puerto Rican-American activist and health care advocate
Brooklyn, NY
Carmen Vázquez was born on January 13, 1949 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico to a WWII veteran and a seamstress. Her parents migrated to New York...
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Emmy-winning comedian
West Hollywood, CA
Bruce Vilanch was born in 1948 in New York City, and raised by his adoptive parents Jonas and Henne in Paterson, New Jersey. He developed...
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Wisconsin LGBTQ politician, historian
Madison, WI
Dick Wagner was born in 1943 in Dayton, Ohio into a traditional German Catholic family (his great grandparents ran a successful beer brewery). Dick attended...
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"The Experience" workshop leader, wellness activist
Santa Fe, NM
Honey Ward was born and raised in Southern California. At the age of 26, she participated in The Advocate Experience, a transformational weekend workshop (later...
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founder, Mothertongue Feminist Theater Collective
San Francisco, CA
Corinne Sue Wick, today known as Corky, was born in 1935 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin into a large Jewish family. She went to the University of...
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businessman; founder, The Williams Institute
Malibu, CA
Chuck Williams was born in Los Angeles to parents who moved to California to get away from their uptight religious families in Texas. From early...
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Corporate leader and marriage equality advocate
Provincetown, MA
David Wilson was born in 1944 in Boston, to Black parents who worked as domestics for White families around the perimeter of Boston. They would...
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military veteran; technology entrepreneur; motorcyclist
The Villages, FL
Charlotte Wilson was born in 1947 in Oklahoma City. Her father, who was part native American, was stationed in Australia during World War II; that’s...
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architect of the national marriage equality movement
New York, NY
Evan Wolfson was born in 1957 in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Pittsburgh. His dad was a pediatrician; his mom was a housewife,...
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gay philanthropy pioneer
Palm Springs, CA
Rob Wright was born in 1949 in Denver, grew up there, and got his degree in economics from the University of Colorado in Boulder. During...
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founder, “The Wall / Las Memorias”; HIV educator
Los Angeles, CA
Richard Zaldivar was born in Los Angeles in 1952. His dad was Mexican, his mom Mexican-American. Richard’s family was deeply Catholic and early on, Richard...
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