LGBT History Month Icons 2022
LGBT History Month celebrates the achievements of 31 lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender Icons. Each day in October, a new LGBT Icon is featured....
LGBT History Month Icons: Lea Delaria
Comedian & Actor
b. May 23, 1958
“I’m a big butch dyke with a smile on my face.”
Lea DeLaria is an award-winning actor, a jazz singer...
LGBT History Month Icon 2021: Johnnie Phelps
Decorated WWII Veteran
b. April 4, 1922
d. December 30, 1997
“It would be unfair of me not to tell you, my name is going to head...
LGBT History Month Icon 2021: R.C. Gorman
Native American Artist
b. July 26, 1932
d. November 3, 2005
“I’m an Indian painting Indians, and if it worked out for me, then it's all well...
LGBT History Month Icon 2021: W.H. Auden
Poet
b. February 21, 1907
d. September 29, 1973
“If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.”
Wystan Hugh (W.H.) Auden was a Pulitzer Prize-winning...
LGBT History Month Icon 2021: Stacey Milbern
Disability Rights Activist
b. May 19, 1987
d. May 19, 2020
“I would want people with disabilities 20 years from now to not think that they’re broken.”
Stacey...