LGBT History Month Icon 2021: Ashley Diamond
Transgender Prison Activist
b. 1978
“While it seems like the world is so obsessed with ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ I’m living it.”
Ashley Diamond is a...
LGBT History Month Icon 2021: Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Author & Activist
b. July 19, 1875
d. September 18, 1935
“Unwittingly, you’ve made me dream
Of violets, and my soul’s forgotten gleam”
Alice Dunbar-Nelson was a racially-mixed bisexual...
LGBT History Month Icon 2021: Carlos Elizondo
White House Social Secretary
“In both my professional and personal life, it has always been important to me to represent our community in a positive...
LGBT History Month Icon 2021: Althea Garrison
Transgender State Representative
b. October 7, 1940
“It pays not to quit when you want something. You have to keep working until you get it.”
Althea Garrison...
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: LZ Granderson
Journalist & Commentator
b. March 11, 1972
“This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by .”
Elzie Lee...
