Sexual Experience
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GAY MUSLIM IMAM
Chicago, IL
Imam Daayiee Abdullah was born Sidney Thompson in Detroit, Michigan on January 11th, 1954. From a very young age, Daayiee displayed an independent mind, becoming...
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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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Two-spirit poet and educator
Lakewood, CO
Crisosto Apache was born in 1971 in New Mexico. His father is a member of the Diné (Navajo) tribe and his mother is part Mescalero...
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Swiss immigrant, multi linguist
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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Author and playwright; founder, Lilith Theater
San Francisco, CA
Terry Baum was born November 27, 1946 in Los Angeles. She describes her early life in LA as a “reasonably happy Jewish middle-class childhood.” During...
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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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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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The Actors Fund executive, healthcare advocate
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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HIV activist, community manager, women's advocate
Chalmette, LA
Gina Brown was born on January 15, 1966 in Pittsburgh, California. Up until age 4, her family lived happily in a middle class neighborhood. When...
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Black Trans Activist, Human Right's Advocate
Washington D.C., DC
Earline Budd was born on August 14, 1958 in Washington, DC, where she grew up in a very religious family. Assigned male at birth, Earline...
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Public Speaker, Mentor, Trans Equality Advocate
North Garden, VA
Charley Burton was born on May 27, 1960 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The city was segregated in his early childhood, and his parents were vocal advocates...
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engineer; founder, The Faerie Playhouse
New Orleans, LA
Stewart Butler was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1930, moved to New Orleans in 1932 and to Carville, Louisiana in 1941. He attended Louisiana State...
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Anne Charles and Linda Quinlan
writers; public access show co-hosts
Montpelier, VT
Anne Charles was born on May 14, 1951, in Houston, Texas. She was raised by her single mother in Buffalo, New York, and never knew...
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Immigrant, Transgender Social Justice Advocate
San Francisco, CA
Cecilia Chung was born on July 28, 1965 in Hong Kong to her Catholic mother, Dawning, and her father, William. Cecilia often found herself challenging...
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