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 con...

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 child...

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

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

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

“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 Jenkin...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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