LGBT History Month Icons 2022: Mondaire Jones
First Out Black Congressman
b. May 18, 1987
“Growing up poor, Black, and gay, I never imagined someone like me could run for Congress, let alone...
LGBT History Month Icons 2022: Jazz Jennings
Transgender Youth Activist
b. October 6, 2000
“No matter what your differences are, you have to embrace them and be proud of the way you are.”
One...
LGBT History Month Icons 2022: Bell Hooks
Author & Feminist
b. September 25, 1952
d. December 15, 2021
“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down … to someone...
LGBT History Month Icons 2022: Radclyffe Hall
English Author
b. August 12, 1880
d. October 7, 1943
“Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond — yet the world will call it...
LGBT History Month Icons 2022: Ron Gold
Gay Pioneer
b. April 22, 1930
d. May 1, 2017
“Stop it, you’re making me sick!”
Ron Gold played an important role in the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA’s)...
LGBT History Month Icons 2022: Masha Gessen
Russian-American journalist
b. January 13, 1967
“To create, and to confront, one has to be an outcast.”
Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist, an activist and a...
