Marsha P. Johnson (1945 - July 6, 1992) was an African American transgender activist and a popular figure in New York City's gay and art scene from the 1960s to the 1990s. One of the city's oldest and best known drag queens, Johnson participated in...

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Executive Director of GenderPAC (Gender Public Advocacy Coalition) and the author of Read My Lips, GenderQueer, and Queer Theory/Gender Theory. In 2001 Riki Wilchins was selected as one of TIME Magazine's "100 Civic Innovators for the 21st Century." Wilchins was a featured columnist on gender issues for The...

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President of New Jersey Stonewall Democrats since 2006, she is also Political Director of The Gender Rights Advocacy Association of NEW JERSEY (GRAANJ). A founding member, she served as Vice-Chair of Garden State Equality from 2006-2008. Active nationally, she serves on the Executive Board of National Stonewall...

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Yoseñio Lewis has been a social justice activist since the age of 13. He is currently involved in several progressive organizations, including: the Board of Directors of The Woodhull Freedom Foundation, Board of Directors of Unid@s (the National Latino LGBT Human Rights Organization), the Community Advisory Board for the...

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Robin Tyler is a pioneer within the grassroots movement of the gay civil rights fight. She has played a seminal role in the struggle for equal right both in her current role as Executive Director of The Equality Campaign and as the first lesbian plaintiff to sue the state of California challenging the ban on same sex marriage. She...

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