Patrisse Cullors and Alicia Garza are queer Black activists. Patrisse is an alum of UCLA, a Fulbright scholar, and has an Honorary...

Emperor Ai of Han was an emperor of the Chinese Han dynasty. He was born in 27 BC and ascended the throne when he was 20. He reigned from...

Walter Tróchez was a Honduran LGBTQ rights leader and political activist. He was the Secretary of the Asociación Para Una Vida Mejor, and...

Sonali Deraniyagala is a Sri Lankan writer and economist. Born and raised in Colombo, Sri Lanka, she is an alumna of Cambridge...

Emma HarukaIwao is a queer Japanese woman and renowned computer scientist. She studied computer science at the University of Tsukuba and...

Xulhaz Mannan was a Bengali gay rights activist. He studied International Relations at Dhaka University, finishing with honors, and later...

Osh-Tisch was a Crow Nation badé, which is a person who straddles male and female genders. Specifically, it is a person assigned male at...

Sergeant Perry Watkins was a Black gay soldier who was among the first to challenge the ban against gay people in the US military. He was...

Jin Xing is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning dancer. She was born in 1967 in China to Korean parents and assigned male at...

Johnny Mathis is a Black American award-winning singer and songwriter who made more than 100 albums with 73 of them making the Billboard...

George Washington Carver was an African-American inventor and botanist born during the last years of slavery in 1864. George found his...

The Combahee River Collective was a queer black feminist organization active in Boston from 1974 to 1980 that met to discuss and address...

Hinaleimoana Kwai Kong Wong-Kaluis a Native Hawaiian māhū (a traditional third-gender person who occupies "a place in the middle" between...

Tracey Gayle “Africa" Norman is the first known prominent Black transgender female model. Originally from Newark, NJ, Tracey found her...

Crystal M. Flemming, PhD is a sociologist, author, Associate Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Stony Brook University. An...

Faisal Alam is a gay Pakistani-American and founder of the Al-Fatiha Foundation, an international organization dedicated to the LGBTQI...

Crystal Love is an indigenous trans woman and elected official from the Tiwi Islands in Australia. For decades, she and her family were...

Jewelle Gomez is a queer American activist, author, poet, and playwright of Black, Cape Verdean, and Native American (Ioway, Wampanoag)...

Happy #LGBTQHistoryMonth! Let’s make sure it’s as #intersectional as possible! Venus Xtravaganza was a performer and aspiring model from...

Nthabiseng Mokoena, whose pronouns are they/them/theirs is the first black South African to publicly advocate for intersex rights. In...