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First openly LGBTQ elected official in central Florida
Orlando, FL
Patty Sheehan was born on July 6, 1961, in Cleveland, Ohio. Raised in a deeply conservative Catholic family, she remembers telling a friend at age...
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Gay Liberation Front / Lavender Menace activist; writer
Portland, OR
Martha Altman (later Shelley) was born on December 27th, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish parents of Russian and Polish descent. At 17, she...
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Staten Island preservationist; former minister
Staten Island, 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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gay mental health reformer; author, The Joy of Gay Sex
New York, NY
Charles Silverstein was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1935, and grew up in what he describes as a very typical Jewish family of that era:...
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rural gay bar owner
Gun Barrel City, TX
Michael Slingerland was born in 1950 in Greeley, Colorado. The youngest of three boys, Michael lost his mom when he was an infant. When Michael...
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artist, bisexual lesbian
Tucson, AZ
Penelope Starr was born in 1945 in New York, NY. As the daughter of two eccentric artists – her mother a jeweler and her father...
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coast guard physician, anti-DADT activist
Olympia, WA
Alan Steinman was born in Newark, Ohio on February 7, 1945. He graduated from MIT in 1966 and went on to receive his M.D. from...
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psychiatrist, artist, sculptor
San Francisco, CA
Charles Stinson was born in 1952 in Temple, Texas. His parents, a professional cellist and a physician, were highly educated and pursued many interests —...
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Academic, Theorist, Honorary founder of Transgender Studies
Aptos, CA
Allucquére Rosanne "Sandy" Stone was born in New York City on June 1st, 1954. Sandy and her sister grew up in a conservative Jewish family...
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Intersex activist, giant, early legally non-binary person
San Francisco, CA
David Cameron Strachan was born in 1947 in Deep River, Ontario, and grew up in Walnut Creek, California. His family was very religious and attended...
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trans academic, filmmaker, and artist
San Francisco, CA
Susan Stryker was born into a White working-class family in Fort Sill, Oklahoma on July 7, 1961. Her father was an army Sergeant, and his...
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Bisexual Activist, Porn Writer, and Journalist with MS
Los Angeles, CA
Mike Szymanski was born on September 1, 1960 in Baltimore, Maryland. As part of a military family, he moved around a lot, living in Hawaii,...
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disability physician, world traveler
Montreal, QC, Canada
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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artist, storyteller; gay marriage trailblazer
Eureka Springs, AR
Zeek Taylor was born in the Arkansas Delta in 1946, and raised in the small town of Marmaduke, where his mother was a hairdresser and...
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Founder of Transgender Talent
Anaheim, CA
Ann Thomas was born on October 14, 1962 in Seattle, Washington. At age 3, her family moved to Vashon Island in the middle of Puget...
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