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    • Jun 28, 2020
    • 2 min

    Young, Resilient, and Powerful: A Glimpse Into Ashton Mota’s Story

    Who Is Ashton Mota? Ashton Mota is from Lowell, Massachusetts, and at 13 years old, Mota came out as trans to his mother Carmen. This...

    • Jun 25, 2020
    • 2 min

    Free CeCe: The Story of Cece McDonald

    Cece McDonald was at odds with her body by the age of eight, always being in awe of the women in her family. As the oldest of seven...

    • Jun 25, 2020
    • 2 min

    Zahara Green: Raising the Bar and TRANScending Barriers

    Today in America, Trans women of color are disproportionately incarcerated. While in prison, they are more likely to be assaulted and...

    • Jun 24, 2020
    • 2 min

    Pauli Murray v. Jane Crow: A Fight for Women's Rights

    Pauli Murray was an American civil rights activist, lawyer, women’s rights activist, and Episcopal priest. In 1977, the first year women...

    • Jun 23, 2020
    • 1 min

    White House, Rainbow Advisor: Keith Boykin's Activism in the Clinton Presidency and Beyond

    Keith Boykin is an American broadcast journalist, author, and political commentator. He served as the editor of The Daily Voice, he...

    • Jun 22, 2020
    • 2 min

    Andrea Jenkins: Navigating the Intersection of LGBT politics and Racial Injustice

    “That’s where I live, at the intersection of L.G.B.T. politics and racial injustice. It’s front and center of my everyday.” Andrea...

    • Jun 20, 2020
    • 3 min

    Proud and Picketing: Ernestine Eckstein's Activism

    Ernestine Eckstein was a highly influential lesbian of color who was active in the fight for LGBT rights pre-Stonewall. She was seen in a...

    • Jun 19, 2020
    • 2 min

    Alvin Ailey: A Legacy of Dance

    His Early Life Alvin Ailey was a dancer, director, choreographer, and activist. Ailey was born January 5, 1931, in Rogers, Texas. Born in...

    • Jun 18, 2020
    • 3 min

    The Story of James Baldwin

    James Arthur Baldwin was born August 2, 1924 in Harlem. He spent his teenage years in his stepfather’s Pentecostal church, working as a...

    • Jun 17, 2020
    • 3 min

    Gladys Bentley: ‘The Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs’

    Gladys Bentley was born in 1907 in Philly to her Trinidadian immigrant mother and Black American father. She was the youngest of four...

    • Jun 13, 2020
    • 2 min

    Drag Queen President: Joan Jett Blakk

    In 1991, Blakk had enough of politicians not doing enough for AIDS victims and ran for mayor of Chicago.

    • Jun 9, 2020
    • 1 min

    Dirty Computer: Janelle Monáe's Dedication to LGBTQ Youth

    Janelle Monáe, born Janelle Monáe Robinson, is from Kansas City, Kansas, and was born December 1, 1985. Monáe is a singer, songwriter,...

    • Jun 6, 2020
    • 3 min

    Phill Wilson: From AIDS to Activist

    Phill Wilson was born in Chicago, IL in 1956 on April 22. Phill came out as gay in 1980.

    • Jun 3, 2020
    • 3 min

    Poems, Prose, and Activism: The Story of Audre Lorde

    As a “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet” Audre Lorde dedicated her life to combating racism, sexism, homophobia, heterosexism, and class

    • Jun 3, 2020
    • 3 min

    Social Change: Bayard Rustin's Fight for Our Rights

    Bayard Rustin was a civil rights activist, a gay rights activist, an advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King, and a humanitarian.

    • Jun 2, 2020
    • 3 min

    The Guardian of Lesbians in The Village: The Stormé DeLarverie Story

    Stormé DeLarverie was a prominent figure and early leader in the LGBT rights movement. He is the Guardian of Lesbians in the Village.