Crystal Love is an indigenous trans woman and elected official from the Tiwi Islands in Australia. For decades, she and her family were...

Jewelle Gomez is a queer American activist, author, poet, and playwright of Black, Cape Verdean, and Native American (Ioway, Wampanoag)...

Happy #LGBTQHistoryMonth! Let’s make sure it’s as #intersectional as possible! Venus Xtravaganza was a performer and aspiring model from...

Nthabiseng Mokoena, whose pronouns are they/them/theirs is the first black South African to publicly advocate for intersex rights. In...

Willi Ninja was a dancer and choreographer and is considered to be the grandfather/godfather of voguing. The self-taught dancer took the...

Ray Navarro was a gay Mexican-American filmmaker, artist, and gay rights & HIV/AIDS activist during the 1980s. He was an active member of...

Chella Man is a deaf, transgender, Jewish, Chinese-American actor, vlogger, model, artist, and activist. Born in 1998, he began to lose...

Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil of Gujarat India is the first openly gay prince in the world. His 1991 arranged marriage to Princess...

Congressman Mark Takano is Japanese-American and serves on the US House of Representatives for California’s 41st district. In 2013, Rep...

Glenn Burke was a black, gay Major League Baseball player for the LA Dodgers and Oakland A’s from 1976 to 1979. He was the first player...

Frida Kahlo was a bisexual, disabled, Mexican painter and activist committed to Mexican culture, socialism, and issues of social justice...

Richard Frank Salanga Adams was a Filipino-American gay rights activist. He was born in Manila in 1947 and came to the USA at 12 with his...

Sylvia Rivera was a Puerto Rican & Venezuelan trans rights advocate from the Bronx. She had a fluid gender identity and self-identified...