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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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,...
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.
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
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.
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.