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Patrisse Cullors and Alicia Garza are queer Black activists. Patrisse is an alum of UCLA, a Fulbright scholar, and has an Honorary...
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Tyree Oredein, DrPH
Oct 30, 20191 min read
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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...
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Tyree Oredein, DrPH
Oct 29, 20191 min read
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Walter Tróchez was a Honduran LGBTQ rights leader and political activist. He was the Secretary of the Asociación Para Una Vida Mejor, and...
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Oct 28, 20191 min read
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Sonali Deraniyagala is a Sri Lankan writer and economist. Born and raised in Colombo, Sri Lanka, she is an alumna of Cambridge...
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Tyree Oredein, DrPH
Oct 27, 20191 min read
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Emma HarukaIwao is a queer Japanese woman and renowned computer scientist. She studied computer science at the University of Tsukuba and...
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Tyree Oredein, DrPH
Oct 26, 20191 min read
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Xulhaz Mannan was a Bengali gay rights activist. He studied International Relations at Dhaka University, finishing with honors, and later...
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Tyree Oredein, DrPH
Oct 25, 20191 min read
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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...
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Tyree Oredein, DrPH
Oct 24, 20191 min read
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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...
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Tyree Oredein, DrPH
Oct 23, 20191 min read
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Jin Xing is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning dancer. She was born in 1967 in China to Korean parents and assigned male at...
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Tyree Oredein, DrPH
Oct 22, 20191 min read
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Johnny Mathis is a Black American award-winning singer and songwriter who made more than 100 albums with 73 of them making the Billboard...
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Tyree Oredein, DrPH
Oct 21, 20191 min read
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George Washington Carver was an African-American inventor and botanist born during the last years of slavery in 1864. George found his...
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Tyree Oredein, DrPH
Oct 20, 20191 min read
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The Combahee River Collective was a queer black feminist organization active in Boston from 1974 to 1980 that met to discuss and address...
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Tyree Oredein, DrPH
Oct 19, 20191 min read
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Hinaleimoana Kwai Kong Wong-Kaluis a Native Hawaiian māhū (a traditional third-gender person who occupies "a place in the middle" between...
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Tyree Oredein, DrPH
Oct 18, 20191 min read
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Tracey Gayle “Africa" Norman is the first known prominent Black transgender female model. Originally from Newark, NJ, Tracey found her...
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Tyree Oredein, DrPH
Oct 17, 20191 min read
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Crystal M. Flemming, PhD is a sociologist, author, Associate Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Stony Brook University. An...
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Tyree Oredein, DrPH
Oct 16, 20191 min read
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Faisal Alam is a gay Pakistani-American and founder of the Al-Fatiha Foundation, an international organization dedicated to the LGBTQI...
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Tyree Oredein, DrPH
Oct 15, 20191 min read
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Crystal Love is an indigenous trans woman and elected official from the Tiwi Islands in Australia. For decades, she and her family were...
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Tyree Oredein, DrPH
Oct 14, 20191 min read
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Jewelle Gomez is a queer American activist, author, poet, and playwright of Black, Cape Verdean, and Native American (Ioway, Wampanoag)...
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Tyree Oredein, DrPH
Oct 13, 20191 min read
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Happy #LGBTQHistoryMonth! Let’s make sure it’s as #intersectional as possible! Venus Xtravaganza was a performer and aspiring model from...
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Tyree Oredein, DrPH
Oct 12, 20191 min read
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Nthabiseng Mokoena, whose pronouns are they/them/theirs is the first black South African to publicly advocate for intersex rights. In...
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