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Former CEO of Los Angeles LGBT Center
Los Angeles, CA
Lorri L. Jean was born on March 7th, 1957 in Boise, Idaho. She was the eldest child on the family farm, and she was handed...
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kentucky-born author and educator
Tucson, AZ
Fenton Johnson was born in Kentucky in 1953, the youngest of nine children in a bourbon-making family. His parents named him after a monk at...
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early gay rights legal ally
Carmel, CA
Eric Julber was born in October, 1925 in New York City. His father relocated the family to Santa Monica, California to work as a musician...
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Retired social worker, bisexual pioneer, community activist
Portland, ME
BobBI (Barbara) Keppel was born on December 6, 1932 in Washington, DC. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1955, but spent a year abroad at...
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disabled writer, arts administrator, Vermont legislator
South Burlington, VT
John Killacky was born on June 24, 1952 in Chicago, and grew up in a working-class Irish Catholic family, the eldest son out of five...
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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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Child Actor, first out LGBT legislator in CA
Santa Monica, CA
Sheila Kuehl was born on February 8, 1941. Her family moved from St. Louis to Los Angeles when she was 2 years old because her...
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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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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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international human rights filmmaker and activist
Eureka Springs, AR
TrellaLaughlin was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1937. After her mother died, Trellagrew up in her grandmother’s boarding house. Trella’s family was white. Her primary...
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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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