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...
LGBT History Month Icons: Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
19th Century Orator
b. October 28, 1842
d. October 22, 1932
“See to it, women who listen to me ... that no man take your crown.”
Elizabeth Dickinson...
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...
