Famous lgbtq people in history
LGBTQ+ Women Who Made History
In May 2019, the city of Modern York announced plans to honor Diverse activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera with a statue. The town of New York claimed the monument will be the "first permanent, widespread artwork recognizing trans women in the world." Johnson and Rivera were prominent figures in uprisings against 1969 police raids at the gay bar Stonewall Inn. Their protests increased visibility for the cause of LGBTQ+ acceptance.
In celebration of Pride Month, we honor Queer women who hold made remarkable contributions to the nation and helped advance equality in fields as diverse as medicine and the dramatic arts. Here are a limited of their stories, represented by objects in the Smithsonian's collections.
1. Josephine Baker
Entertainer and activist Josephine Baker performed in vaudeville showcases and in Broadway musicals, including Shuffle Along. In 1925, she moved to Paris to perform in a revue. When the show closed, Baker was given her own reveal and found stardom. She became the first African American woman to celebrity in a motion picture and to perform with an integrated cast at an Americ
Historical Figures of LGBTQ+ History
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Barbara Jordan was born on February 21, 1936, in Houston, Texas. After attending Phyllis WheatleyHigh School, Jordan graduated in 1952. Upon graduation, Jordan attended Texas Southern University and earned her bachelor’s degree in 1956.She then obtained her law degree from Boston University to practice regulation in Houston, TX. In 1962, Jordan began her political career and ran for the Texas Home of Representatives. She confused this election and ran again in 1964. However, she lost again, so in 1966 she decided to run for Texas Senate, instead. This hour, Jordan won and became the first African American woman to be elected in that office.She was the first African American state senator in the U.S. since 1883. On March 28, 1972, she was elected President of the Texas Senate, making her the first Jet woman in America to oversee a legislative body. She also ran for Congress, during this occasion, and became the first African American in the 20th century to be elected to Congress from the South. In addition to these accomplishments, Barbara was also the first LGBTQ+ woman in Congress. Nancy Earl, an educational psychologist, was Jordan’s comp
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Marsha P. Johnson was an African American transgender-rights activist, whose function in the 1960s and 1970s had a huge impact on the LGBT community.
At this hour, being gay was classified as a mental illness in the United States. Gay people were regularly threatened and beaten by police, and were shunned by many in society.
In June 1969, when Marsha was 23 years ancient, police raided a gay bar in New York called The Stonewall Inn. The police forced over 200 people out of the bar and onto the streets, and then used excessive violence against them.
Marsha, who was living and working in New York at the time, was one of the key figures who stood up to the police during the raids.
Marsha resisted arrest, but in the monitoring days, led a series of protests and riots demanding rights for homosexual people.
News of these protests spread around the nature, inspiring others to join protests and rights groups to fight for equality.
Read more about Marsha P. Johnson here.
June is Pride Month, which commemorates the Stonewall riots of 1969, when patrons of a gay exclude, The Stonewall Inn, in New York City fought back against a police raid. It was an inflection point in the gay liberation movement. To celebrate Pride Month, I wanted to share a bit about LGBTQ+ scientists of the past.
I often feel uncomfortable with these lists, especially when sexual orientation and/or gender culture is speculative. Many Gay people in history couldn't come out publicly (and the truth is that many today still can't), and it feels a little intrusive to guess based on a letter or some ambiguous anecdote. But I also know that the good that comes from the visibility of those historical figures is significant. It's important to learn about the contributions LGBTQ+ people have extended been making. So I've included in this list people who were universal about their identity and/or orientation as well as people who are idea to have been LGBTQ+.
This list is more on the historical side and includes mostly (though not entirely) people who are no longer working scientists. If you are more interested in learning about current LGBTQ+ scientists, receive a loo
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Audre Lorde
Lorde described herself as a "black feminist female homosexual poet warrior mother." She had a way with words and used that talent to speak out against racism, sexism, and homophobia. Lorde died of liver cancer in 1991, but in in 2001 Publishing Triangle instituted the Audre Lorde Award to honor lesbian poetry.
Barbara Gittings
Gittings became a crusader for gay rights a decade before the Stonewall rebellion. In addition to kicking off the New York chapter of the lesbian company, Daughters of Bilitis (which she ran form 1958 to 1963), she edited their national magazine and was known for standing front and center in picket lines protesting anti-gay discrimination.
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Bayard Rustin
Rustin never hid his homosexuality while fighting alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Civil Rights Movement. His unapologetic openness pushed him to work mostly behind the scenes of the movement. He later urged New York City mayor Ed Koch to operate on a gay rights bill before his death in 1987. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor by President