Lgbtq Rights Activist

🇺🇸Ellen DeGeneres

Entertainment

b. 1958

"I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that."

🇺🇸Abby Stein

Religion

b. 1991

"I loved the way Judaism does life cycle events. I loved the idea of having one day of the week off. . I related to Jewish music, to the food, and even the spirituality part, I’ll admit it."

🇺🇸Harvey Milk

Politics

1930–1978

"If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country."

🇬🇧Derek Jarman

Art

1942–1994

"On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal."

🇺🇸Paul Goodman

Literature

anarchism

1911–1972

"When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality."

🇺🇸Janet Mock

Literature

b. 1983

"The ‘pretty privilege’ can give you access to spaces, just like your able body gives you access. But it makes impossible beauty standards for many other trans girls who are struggling with that right now."

🇺🇸Bayard Rustin

Social Activism

Socialism

1912–1987

"We in America reject planning except for the private sector of the economy, so what we have is democratic socialization for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor."

🇺🇸June Jordan

Literature

1936–2002

"June Jordan profile at the Poetry Foundation"

🇺🇸Harry Hay

Entertainment

1912–2002

"1969 was the Year of the New Homosexual."

🇺🇸Rita Mae Brown

Literature

lesbian feminism

b. 1944

"If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle."

🇪🇸Miss Shangay Lily

Entertainment

1963–2016

"This pioneer of sexology even came to question whether homosexuality might be innate"

🇬🇧Peter Tatchell

Literature

b. 1952

"The Bible is to gays what Mein Kampf is to Jews."

🇺🇸Julia Serano

Literature

b. 1967

"Once a person acknowledges that they possess some form of privilege, they are more likely to accept the reality that they are not in any way objective about the form of marginalization in question"

"When I graduated from high school, I hoped that one day gay Americans would be able to get married. And now here I am 45 years later officiating same-sex marriages—how can I not be optimistic that the future is bright?"