LGBT History Month Icons: André De Shields
Actor & Singer
b. January 12, 1946
“The top of the mountain is the bottom of the next, so keep climbing.”
André De Shields is a queer...
LGBT History Month Icons 2022: Robert Cutler
National Security Advisor
b. June 12, 1895
d. May 8, 1974
“No man in the Government, with the possible exception of the President, knows so many of...
LGBT History Month Icons 2022: Kitty Cone
Disability Rights Activist
b. April 7, 1944
d. March 21, 2015
“For the first time, we had concrete federal civil rights protection.”
Curtis Selden “Kitty” Cone was a...
LGBT History Month Icons 2022: Nancy Cárdenas
Mexican Writer & Activist
b. May 29, 1934
d. March 22, 1994
“Of course, if we change the future, we change the past.”
Nancy Cárdenas was the first...
LGBT History Month Icons: Kate Brown
Governor of Oregon
b. June 21, 1960
“There’s no better place to fight for working families than the governor’s chair.”
Brown is a Democrat and the first...
LGBT History Month Icons 2022: Jennifer Finney Boylan
Author & Transgender Activist
b. June 22, 1958
“The more we feel compelled to keep explaining ourselves, the less like others we become.”
Jennifer Finney Boylan is...