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#LGBTVoices had a great project highlighting the heroes of Pride throughout the month of June, and I am so proud to have been a part of it. If you weren’t following, check up on all our tweets in this thread, and spread the measage of love. 🌈❤️
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🏳️🌈TODAY’S PRIDE HERO🏳️🌈
Harvey Milk (1930 – 1978)
Visionary #LGBTQ, civil, and human rights leader. One of the first openly gay elected officials in the U.S.
His life was tragically cut short when he was assassinated nearly one year after taking office.
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Harvey Milk (1930 – 1978)
Visionary #LGBTQ, civil, and human rights leader. One of the first openly gay elected officials in the U.S.
His life was tragically cut short when he was assassinated nearly one year after taking office.
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Harvey was born May 22, 1930, in Woodmere, NY. Harvey and his only sibling, Robert, worked in the family’s department store, “Milks.” They were a small middle-class Jewish family that had founded a Jewish synagogue and was well known in their community for their civic engagement.
Milk knew he was gay while attending high school, where he was a popular student w/ interests from opera to football.
While in college, Milk penned a weekly student newspaper column where he questioned issues of diversity and lessons learned from the recently ended World War.
While in college, Milk penned a weekly student newspaper column where he questioned issues of diversity and lessons learned from the recently ended World War.
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Oscar Wilde (1864-1900)
Author
A colourful agent provocateur in Victorian society, his art, like his paradoxes, seeking to subvert as well as sparkle. He is best remembered for his plays, and his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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Oscar Wilde (1864-1900)
Author
A colourful agent provocateur in Victorian society, his art, like his paradoxes, seeking to subvert as well as sparkle. He is best remembered for his plays, and his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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Oscar Wilde was born at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, now home of the Oscar Wilde Centre, Trinity College. Wilde's mother was of Italian descent, and under the pseudonym "Speranza" wrote poetry for the revolutionary Young Irelanders in 1848 and was a lifelong Irish nationalist.
In mid-1891 Lionel Johnson introduced Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, an undergraduate at Oxford at the time. Known to his family and friends as "Bosie", he was a handsome and spoilt young man. An intimate friendship sprang up between Wilde and Douglas and by 1893 Wilde was.....
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Larry Kramer (b. June 25, 1935)
Playwright, author, film producer, public health advocate, and LGBT rights activist.
Larry founded the direct action protest group ACT UP, credited with making the AIDS crisis a priority of public health policy.
Larry Kramer (b. June 25, 1935)
Playwright, author, film producer, public health advocate, and LGBT rights activist.
Larry founded the direct action protest group ACT UP, credited with making the AIDS crisis a priority of public health policy.
Kramer was born in Bridgeport CT. He attended Yale in 1953, where he fell into a depression, imagining himself the only gay man on campus. A suicide attempt left him determined to explore his sexuality, and sent him on a path to fight for “gay people’s worth.”
Kramer became involved with movie production at 23, taking up a job as a teletype operator at Columbia Pictures. Eventually, he earned a position in the story dept developing scripts. His second screenwriting credit, “Women in Love,” earned an Oscar nomination in 1969.
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Daniel Keenan Savage
(b. October 7, 1964)
Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) is an American author, media pundit, journalist, newspaper editor, national sex advice columnist(Savage Love), and activist for the #LGBTQ community.
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Daniel Keenan Savage
(b. October 7, 1964)
Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) is an American author, media pundit, journalist, newspaper editor, national sex advice columnist(Savage Love), and activist for the #LGBTQ community.
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Dan Savage was born in Chicago, IL. He was raised Roman Catholic & attended Quigley Preparatory Seminary North. He has said he’s "a wishy-washy agnostic" and an atheist, & still identifies as "culturally Catholic." He holds a BFA from the University of IL at Urbana-Champaign.
Savage was living in Madison, WI when a friend, Tim Keck who co-founded The Onion, mentioned that he was moving to Seattle to launch a new alt newspaper, @TheStranger.
Savage made a comment that every newspaper should have an advice column— he was hired to write one: Savage Love
Savage made a comment that every newspaper should have an advice column— he was hired to write one: Savage Love
🏳️🌈 TODAY’S PRIDE HEROINE 🏳️🌈
Tammy Baldwin @tammybaldwin
(born February 11, 1962)
U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. She served 3 terms in the Wisconsin 78th AD. From 1999-2013 she represented WI 2nd CD in the U.S. House of Representatives. 1/
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Tammy Baldwin @tammybaldwin
(born February 11, 1962)
U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. She served 3 terms in the Wisconsin 78th AD. From 1999-2013 she represented WI 2nd CD in the U.S. House of Representatives. 1/
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Tammy Baldwin defeated her Republican opponent, former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson, in the 2012 U.S. Senate election. She is the first woman elected to represent Wisconsin in the U.S. Congress and the first openly gay U.S. Senator in history. 2/
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Baldwin graduated from Madison West High School in 1980 as the class valedictorian. She earned a B.A. degree from Smith College in 1984 and a J.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1989. She was a lawyer in private practice from 1989 to 1992. 3/
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Peter Thatchell
@PeterTatchell
(1952 - p)
Thatchell is a UK human rights campaigner, best known for his work with #LGBTQ social movements.
He has worked to end anti-LGBTQ laws in the UK & helped LGBTQ people worldwide.
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Peter Thatchell
@PeterTatchell
(1952 - p)
Thatchell is a UK human rights campaigner, best known for his work with #LGBTQ social movements.
He has worked to end anti-LGBTQ laws in the UK & helped LGBTQ people worldwide.
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Born in Australia, he first worked to help aboriginal people & to end the death penalty in that country.
Thatchell moved to London & became a leading member of the Gay Liberation Front, organizing sit-ins at pubs that refused to serve gays & protested police harassment.
Thatchell moved to London & became a leading member of the Gay Liberation Front, organizing sit-ins at pubs that refused to serve gays & protested police harassment.
He helped to organize Britain’s first Gay Pride march in 1972.
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Del Martin (1921 – 2008)
Phyllis Lyon (born Nov 1924)
Activists, Trailblazers, Pioneers
How do you capture such incredible lives in a few tweets? I’ll share a bit. But everyone, please share what Del and Phyllis mean to YOU.
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Del Martin (1921 – 2008)
Phyllis Lyon (born Nov 1924)
Activists, Trailblazers, Pioneers
How do you capture such incredible lives in a few tweets? I’ll share a bit. But everyone, please share what Del and Phyllis mean to YOU.
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Born in the 1920s, Del and Phyllis met and fell in love in 1952. Three years later, they formed America’s first lesbian-rights organization, Daughters of Bilitis. They launched the monthly newsletter The Ladder in 1956.
Imagine the courage to be your true self in the 1950s...
Imagine the courage to be your true self in the 1950s...
They fought. For decades.
For equality.
Against California's sodomy law in the 1960s.
To help women’s groups accept gays (Del was the first open lesbian elected to the board of NOW, in 1973.)
To help ministers accept gays in churches.
To stop domestic violence...
For equality.
Against California's sodomy law in the 1960s.
To help women’s groups accept gays (Del was the first open lesbian elected to the board of NOW, in 1973.)
To help ministers accept gays in churches.
To stop domestic violence...
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Sally Ride
(May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012)
Sally Ride was an American physicist & astronaut. On June 18, 1983, she became the first American woman in space as part of the space shuttle Challenger mission.
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Sally Ride
(May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012)
Sally Ride was an American physicist & astronaut. On June 18, 1983, she became the first American woman in space as part of the space shuttle Challenger mission.
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Sally was born and grew up in CA. She obtained her PhD from Stanford in Physics.
Ride was one of 8,000 people who answered an ad in the Stanford student newspaper seeking female applicants for the space program. She was 1 of 35 women chosen by NASA in 1978.
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Ride was one of 8,000 people who answered an ad in the Stanford student newspaper seeking female applicants for the space program. She was 1 of 35 women chosen by NASA in 1978.
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After traveling to space during the Challenger mission in 1983 and 1984, Sally became the inspiration for several generations of girls,(including yours, truly) to follow their science and technology dreams, an area that had been long deemed "boys only."
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Laverne Cox (age unknown)
The first openly transgender person to be nominated for an Emmy for acting, and the first openly transgender woman of color to star in a scripted TV series.
Known for her role on Orange is the New Black.
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Laverne Cox (age unknown)
The first openly transgender person to be nominated for an Emmy for acting, and the first openly transgender woman of color to star in a scripted TV series.
Known for her role on Orange is the New Black.
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Born in Mobile, Alabama. She and her twin brother were raised by their single mother, Gloria, who was a teacher.
While she was born biologically male, she always felt female.
Laverne was bullied and attempted suicide at age 11. But she found strength in her love for the arts.
While she was born biologically male, she always felt female.
Laverne was bullied and attempted suicide at age 11. But she found strength in her love for the arts.
Laverne attended high school at the Alabama School of Fine Arts before going to Indiana University and Marymount Manhattan College, where her twin brother also went and studied the visual arts.
Laverne studied acting in addition to graduating with a BFA in dance.
Laverne studied acting in addition to graduating with a BFA in dance.
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Lynn Ann Conway
Born January 2, 1938
Lynn is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, inventor, and transgender activist
@lynnconway
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Lynn Ann Conway
Born January 2, 1938
Lynn is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, inventor, and transgender activist
@lynnconway
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Lynn grew up in White Plains, New York. Conway was shy and experienced gender dysphoria as a child. She became fascinated and engaged by astronomy and did well in math and science in high school.
Lynn is notable for a number of pioneering achievements, including the Mead & Conway revolution in VLSI design, which incubated an emerging electronic design automation industry.
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James “John” Finley Gruber (1928 - 2011)
James Gruber was an original member, co-founder, and helped name the Mattachine Society, one of the earliest homophile organizations in the United States.
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James “John” Finley Gruber (1928 - 2011)
James Gruber was an original member, co-founder, and helped name the Mattachine Society, one of the earliest homophile organizations in the United States.
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James considered himself bisexual. He enlisted in the US Marine Corps in 1946 at the age of 18, was honorably discharged in 1949. Gruber met & began a relationship with Konrad Stevens. He attended meetings of an early homophile organization called the “Society of Fools”
James Gruber, following a conversation with Harry Hay about Medieval masque troops known as “mattachines” and suggested renaming the “Society of Fools” to Mattachine Society. The Mattachine Society was a single national organization headquartered in Los Angeles.
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Audre Lorde
(2/18/1934-11/17/1992)
Poet, Writer, Activist, Essayist, Librarian
Lorde's poetry was published very regularly during the 1960s.
Lorde considered herself a Lesbian, mother, warrior, and poet. 1/
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Audre Lorde
(2/18/1934-11/17/1992)
Poet, Writer, Activist, Essayist, Librarian
Lorde's poetry was published very regularly during the 1960s.
Lorde considered herself a Lesbian, mother, warrior, and poet. 1/
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“When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” –Audre Lorde /4
Each day during #PrideMonth June #LGBTVoices brings you a portrait of a special #Pride hero/heroine. /End
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Leonard P. Matlovich (1943-1988)
Vietnam War Veteran, Purple Heart & Bronze Star recipient
Civil Rights Activist
"Maybe not in my lifetime, but we are going to win in the end."
(Photo cred: Ted Sahl)
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Leonard P. Matlovich (1943-1988)
Vietnam War Veteran, Purple Heart & Bronze Star recipient
Civil Rights Activist
"Maybe not in my lifetime, but we are going to win in the end."
(Photo cred: Ted Sahl)
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If you are LGBTQ in the military, thank US Air Force Technical Sergeant Leonard P. Matlovich for the gigantic 1st step.
In March 1975, Matlovich gave his commanding officers a letter outing himself as a homosexual.
Photo Cred: Leonard Matlovich Papers
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In March 1975, Matlovich gave his commanding officers a letter outing himself as a homosexual.
Photo Cred: Leonard Matlovich Papers
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He did this to challenge the military ban on gays. He didn't shy away from a battle - not in Vietnam where he earned the Purple Heart and not for equality. He graced the cover of Time Magazine in uniform. He became a symbol.
Photo Cred: Ted Thai
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Photo Cred: Ted Thai
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Martin Duberman (b. August 6, 1930)
Martin is an American historian, biographer, playwright, gay rights activist and radical.
Writer or editor of over 25 books, Martin founded the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at CUNY.
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Martin Duberman (b. August 6, 1930)
Martin is an American historian, biographer, playwright, gay rights activist and radical.
Writer or editor of over 25 books, Martin founded the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at CUNY.
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Duberman grew up near New York City & earned a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. from Harvard. He taught history at Yale, then Princeton, where he became involved in activism. He signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” in 1968, refusing to pay taxes to protest the Vietnam War.
During those years, Martin endured years of therapy in an attempt to “cure” his homosexuality. With the advent of Stonewall and the gay liberation movement, Martin embraced his homosexuality and incorporated it into his activism. He came out in a New York Times essay in 1872.
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Richard Isay (1934-2012)
American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, author and gay activist
Thanks to his courage, Dr. Isay laid the foundation for the legal and medical rights gay people have today.
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Richard Isay (1934-2012)
American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, author and gay activist
Thanks to his courage, Dr. Isay laid the foundation for the legal and medical rights gay people have today.
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Isay is considered a pioneer who changed the way that psychoanalysts view homosexuality and had an enormous influence on much of the HIV movement and its participants today.
“He made the field see that their view was based on ideology, not evidence”
“He made the field see that their view was based on ideology, not evidence”
Dr. Isay contested the medical treatment of homosexuality as an illness. And, in 1992, with the help of the @ACLU, they threatened the American Psychoanalytical Association with a court case and lawsuit re: discrimination of gay people in the field of psychoanalysis.
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Laurence Michael Dillon
(1915-1962)
Dillon was a British physician and the first transgender man to undergo gender reassignment surgery.
Born as Laura Maud Dillon, he was assigned female at birth.
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Laurence Michael Dillon
(1915-1962)
Dillon was a British physician and the first transgender man to undergo gender reassignment surgery.
Born as Laura Maud Dillon, he was assigned female at birth.
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Laurence was always more comfortable in men’s clothing and knew that he was not a woman.
In 1939, Dillon experimented with testosterone pills. A pioneering plastic surgeon performed a double mastectomy on Dillon and gave him a note to change his birth certificate to male.
In 1939, Dillon experimented with testosterone pills. A pioneering plastic surgeon performed a double mastectomy on Dillon and gave him a note to change his birth certificate to male.
Dillon enrolled in medical school under his new name, becoming a distinguished rower for the male team.
13 surgeries were performed on Dillon to construct male anatomy. The doctor performing them diagnosed Dillon falsely so that nobody would know the truth, protecting Dillon.
13 surgeries were performed on Dillon to construct male anatomy. The doctor performing them diagnosed Dillon falsely so that nobody would know the truth, protecting Dillon.
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José Julio Sarria (1922 - 2013)
I am far from an expert on Jose but learning about him gave me a great appreciation for all he has accomplished for the LGBTQ community. He was one of America’s gay rights pioneering leaders.
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José Julio Sarria (1922 - 2013)
I am far from an expert on Jose but learning about him gave me a great appreciation for all he has accomplished for the LGBTQ community. He was one of America’s gay rights pioneering leaders.
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Jose was a proud World War II veteran and the very first openly gay candidate to run for public office in North America. Born in San Francisco in 1922. His father showed no interest in his son’s life.
After being discharged from his duty in World War II, he studied to become a teacher and frequented the Black Cat where he began performing in drag.
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Alan Turing (1912-1954)
An eccentric British mathematician, widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.
Turing broke the Nazi Enigma code, playing a crucial role in the allied victory in WWII.
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Alan Turing (1912-1954)
An eccentric British mathematician, widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.
Turing broke the Nazi Enigma code, playing a crucial role in the allied victory in WWII.
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Turing spent much of his early life separated from his parents, as his father worked in the British administration of India.
At 13, he was sent to a large boarding school, with a rigid syllabus, so Turing studied advanced modern scientific ideas, such as relativity, on his own.
At 13, he was sent to a large boarding school, with a rigid syllabus, so Turing studied advanced modern scientific ideas, such as relativity, on his own.
In his seminal 1936 paper, "On Computable Numbers," Turing proved that the theory of a universal algorithmic method of determining truth in math cannot exist.
He also introduced the notion of a universal computing machine, the "Turing Machine” — the basis of the modern computer.
He also introduced the notion of a universal computing machine, the "Turing Machine” — the basis of the modern computer.
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Edith "Edie" Windsor (June 20, 1929 – September 12, 2017)
Was an LGBT activist from the early 1970s until her death,
and is most notably known for being the lead plaintiff in the case of
US v. Windsor which overturned Sec. 3 of DOMA
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Edith "Edie" Windsor (June 20, 1929 – September 12, 2017)
Was an LGBT activist from the early 1970s until her death,
and is most notably known for being the lead plaintiff in the case of
US v. Windsor which overturned Sec. 3 of DOMA
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Edie was an American LGBT rights activist, and was the lead plaintiff in the SCOTUS case, United States v. Windsor, which overturned Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act and was considered a landmark legal victory for the same-sex marriage movement in the United States
She worked at IBM for 16 years. The company had rejected her insurance form naming her partner Thea Spyer as a beneficiary. She also assisted the Atomic Energy Comm., and was at one point even investigated by the FBI. She feared that it was because of her closeted homosexuality
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Bayard Rustin (1912 – 1987)
For more than 50 years, Rustin was a strategist and activist in the struggle for civil rights and gay rights.
He is best remembered as being the chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington.
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Bayard Rustin (1912 – 1987)
For more than 50 years, Rustin was a strategist and activist in the struggle for civil rights and gay rights.
He is best remembered as being the chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington.
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Rustin left the Communist party in 1941 & served as the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s race relations secretary. He was a pacifist & practiced nonviolence, a method he learned while working with Gandhi. He was imprisoned for 3 years for refusing to register for the WWII draft.
In 1947, he helped plan the first “freedom ride” in the South, challenging ongoing Jim Crow practices though ruled illegal in 1946. His efforts landed him on a chain gang. He reported on the experience which spurred an investigation leading to the abolition of chain gangs in NC.
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Janet Mock @janetmock
(born March 10, 1983)
✊🏽 Award-winning transgender activist
✒️ Best-selling author
⏰ @TIME Most Influential People of 2018
🎥 Writer/Producer/Director of groundbreaking new show @PoseOnFX
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Janet Mock @janetmock
(born March 10, 1983)
✊🏽 Award-winning transgender activist
✒️ Best-selling author
⏰ @TIME Most Influential People of 2018
🎥 Writer/Producer/Director of groundbreaking new show @PoseOnFX
#LGBTVoices #GirlsLikeUs
Janet Mock is one of the most influential voices in activism and advocacy for the LGBTQ community, women, and people of color all over the world.
#GirlsLikeUs #TransIsBeautiful
#GirlsLikeUs #TransIsBeautiful
“Talking and writing about my experiences have helped me finally accept the past and celebrate the fact that I was once a big dreamer who happened to be born a boy named Charles.”
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Sylvia Rivera (1951-2002)
Co-Founder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR)
Member of the Gay Liberation Front and Gay Activists Alliance
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Sylvia Rivera (1951-2002)
Co-Founder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR)
Member of the Gay Liberation Front and Gay Activists Alliance
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Sylvia Rivera was an American gay & transgender activist. Of Puerto Rican & Venezuelan descent, she was born/raised in New York City. Homeless at 11, Sylvia earned her pedigree on NYC streets as a drag queen and sex worker.
Photo Credit: Kay Lahusen #LGBTVoices
Photo Credit: Kay Lahusen #LGBTVoices
She fought for Civil Rights, against Vietnam War and for Women's Rights. At Stonewall, she was one of our voices. Admittedly, I'd not heard of Sylvia when I drew her name for our #LGBTVoices project.
Photo Credit: (AP Photo/Justin Sutcliffe)
Photo Credit: (AP Photo/Justin Sutcliffe)
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Barney Frank (born 1940)
I won’t claim to be an expert on @BarneyFrank. And I know some of his decisions haven’t always been liked by some in the LGBT community. But Frank, who served in Congress for more than 3 decades, is a personal hero.
Barney Frank (born 1940)
I won’t claim to be an expert on @BarneyFrank. And I know some of his decisions haven’t always been liked by some in the LGBT community. But Frank, who served in Congress for more than 3 decades, is a personal hero.
Frank publicly came out as gay in 1987, the first member of Congress to do so voluntarily. I was a HS senior then, a closeted, messed up teen living in Kansas. And here on the news, a powerful Massachusetts Congressman was telling the world he was gay...
No one was out then. Well, besides Boy George. I thought gay men acted like Jack Tripper on Three’s Company. I honestly didn’t know a gay man could be a smart, funny, powerful & out politician. For all Frank’s accomplishments, his legacy, to me, is how he normalized being gay...
