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Bryce Tache
@brycetache
My family is LGBTQ, Black, Latinx, white, immigrant, indigenous. Founded #StandOnEveryCorner. He/him. #BlackLivesMatter
Jun 23, 2018 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
🏳️‍🌈TODAY’S PRIDE HEROES 🏳️‍🌈
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.

#LGBTVoices 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...
Jun 4, 2018 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
🏳️‍🌈TODAY’S PRIDE 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...