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The Life and Legacy of Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man to hold public office in San Francisco, but his contribution lays way beyond politics.
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Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man to hold public office in San Francisco, but his contribution lays way beyond politics.
Sylvia Rivera was born in 1951 in New York to a Puerto Rican father and a Venezuelan mother. After her father abandoned her family when
Barbara Gittings was born in 1932 in Vienna, Austria. Barbara and her siblings attended Catholic schools in Montreal. She was so immersed in Catholicism at
Audre Lorde was born in New York City on 18th February 1934. As the youngest of three children born to immigrant parents from the West
Gilbert Baker was born on 2nd June 1951, in Chanute, Kansas. He grew up in Parsons, Kansas, where his grandmother owned a women’s clothing store.
Who was Christine Jorgensen Christine was born George William Jorgensen, Jr. on 30th May 1926 in the Bronx, New York City. As a child, Jorgensen
Stormé DeLarverie, who was born in New Orleans in 1920 to a black mother and a white father; it is said that her mother was
Born Jean Sobelson in Flushing, Queens in 1920, the third of five daughters of Sadie, a housewife, and Charles Sobelson, a salesman, she studied for