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rural men’s circle founder
Centerville, MN
Don Quaintance was born in 1941 on a farm in Cherokee, Iowa. He was the oldest of eight children in a working-class family that moved...
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activist, organizer, reconciler
Des Moines, IA
For more than 30 years, Donna Red Wing was a national leader in the fight for human rights, civil rights and LGBTQ equality. The Christian...
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LESBIAN ACTIVIST, AUTHOR, ARTIST, NATURALIST
Elkins, AR
Born in New York City on Oct 17, 1931, Diana Smith (later Diana Rivers) grew up near Morristown, New Jersey, within an artistic and literary...
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1967 Black cat protest organizer
Pasadena, CA
Alexei Romanoff was born in the Ukraine in 1936, fled with his family to the United States during World War II, and came of age...
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Lesbian Fat Acceptance Activist and Feminist Writer
San Francisco, CA
Esther Rothblum was born on January 11, 1955 in Vienna, Austria. Her family moved around often for her father’s job in foreign aid, and Esther...
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Transgender biologist and author
Kapaʻa, HI
Joan Roughgarden was born on March 13, 1946 in Peterson, New Jersey. Her father worked as a missionary and construction engineer for the Episcopal Church,...
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former Catholic seminarian; sustainable agriculture activist
Lacona, IA
A fifth-generation Iowa farmer, Matt Russell was born in 1970 and raised in the rural community of Anita, Iowa. Of the 28 students in Matt’s...
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Drag performer, community activist, fundraiser, and author
San Francisco, CA
Donna Sachet was born Kirk Reeves in 1954, in South Carolina. Kirk’s young life was marked by a violent, alcoholic father, and a mother afraid...
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Montana Legislator, Activist, and Oral Historian
Missoula, MT
Diane Sands was born March 23, 1947 in St. Ignatius, Montana. Her family was among the few white families on a Native reservation, and both...
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co-founder, ACT UP NY; founder, Housing Works
NYC, NY
Eric Sawyer was born in 1954 in Binghamton, New York. Although his parents had little money and even less in the way of social standing,...
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Co-Founder of TENTS, Founder of Ground Floor Theatre
Austin, TX
Lisa Scheps was born on October 2nd, 1958 to an upper middle class Jewish family in Houston, Texas. Her parents signed her up for a...
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nightlife proprietor, feminist, author, preservationist
Pass Christian, MS
In July 2017, OUTWORDS interviewed Barbara Scott, a true Southern grande dame lesbienne, at her home in Pass Christian, Mississippi, where Barbara also provided comfortable...
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Stonewall witness, publisher, Philadelphia Gay News
Philadelphia, PA
Mark Segal was born in Philadelphia, and raised in the only Jewish household in his public housing project. As a child, he learned of friends...
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farm boy, teacher, fisting educator
Tajique, NM
Guy Seiler was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1955, the fourth of nine children in a German Catholic family, and raised on a wheat farm...
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early human rights activist and LGBTQ ally
Miami, FL
Ruth Shack was born in 1931, and grew up on Long Island, New York. In 1953, after dropping out of college – she told her...
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