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Yolanda Alaniz

Chicana socialist working for women, LGBT, workers’ and immigrant rights

Heather Purser

Heather Purser fought for legalizing same-sex marriage within the Suquamish Tribe.

Erin Waters

Erin Waters is a healthcare educator and activist with a focus on the Black and Indigenous queer community.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Nonbinary femme poet, writer and intersectional activist, who advocates for disability justice as well as for Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans (LGBT+) and Black, Indigenous, and People Of Color (BIPOC) rights.

Megan Rapinoe

Soccer star and LGBT+ rights activist

Danni Askini

Danni Askini is a transgender activist who is from Seattle, Washington. She is one of the founders of the Gender Justice League, a transgender rights advocacy organization based in Capitol Hill.

Zanele Muholi

Visual activist who documents Black gay, lesbian, transgender, and intersex people in South Africa.

Laverne Cox

A prominent actress and the first openly transgender person nominated for an Emmy, Laverne Cox has promoted visibility and awareness on behalf of the transgender community.

Cecilia Chung

Cecilia Chung is a groundbreaking advocate for the transgender community and those living with HIV/AIDS. For decades, she has worked on the local, state, and national levels to end the discrimination and violence that her communities face.

Andrea Jenkins

Andrea Jenkins made history in 2017 when she became the first African American, openly transgender woman elected to public office in the United States. As a politician, poet, activist, and community historian, Jenkins strives to bring “the notion of love into the public discourse.”