Esther Roper
Irish-English women’s rights activist Esther Roper fought for equal employment and voting rights for working-class women.
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Dr Mary Daly
Radical feminist philosopher, theologian, and academic.
Nobuko Yoshiya
Japanese novelist known for her prolific career during the Taishō and Shōwa periods
Radclyffe Hall
Distinguished English poet and author renowned for her pioneering novel, “The Well of Loneliness,” a groundbreaking position in lesbian literature.
Edith Simcox
British philosopher, writer, trade union activist, and feminist.
Mabel Hampton
American lesbian activist and dancer during the Harlem Renaissance who played a vital role in Black and LGBTQ+ organizations, most notably the Lesbian Herstory Archives.
Anne Lister
English diarist known for being recognized as “the first modern lesbian.”
Hilde Radusch
German political activist engaged in anti-fascist resistance.
Leslie Feinberg
American butch lesbian, transgender activist, author, and communist. Her notable works include “Stone Butch Blues” (1993) and “Transgender Warriors” (1996), which played a significant role in gender studies.
Lucía Sánchez Saornil
Lucía Sánchez Saornil is known for co-founding the Mujeres Libres organization with Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón. She was passionate about self-education and wrote poetry (under the male pen name Luciano de San Saor) about industrialism, religion, marriage, anarchism, and economic revolution. She also expressed lesbian desire in times when queerness was not only not accepted but risked arrest.