Marie Equi

1872-1952

American physician and political radical who fought for peace, an eight-hour workday, women’s suffrage and their right to birth control.

Fereydoun Farrokhzad

1938-1992

Iranian cultural icon and political activist who fought to have a free and open society for his homeland and for people everywhere.

Federico Garcia Lorca

1898–1936

Poet, dramatist and political activist whose heroic opposition to totalitarianism resulted in his murder by Fascists during the Spanish Civil War.

Allen Ginsberg

1926–1997

Renowned poet, leading figure of the Beat Generation of American writers and artists, champion of freedom of expression and sexual self-determination.

Keith Haring

1958–1990

American artist and social activist whose distinctive outline figures express universal concepts of birth, sex, love and joy.

Harry Hay

1912–2002

Sexual revolutionary who defined LGBT as a cultural identity and founded the first enduring gay rights organization in the United States.

Sylvester James

1947–1988

Multi-gold record singer and songwriter known as the “Queen of Disco” and “a visionary of queerness, music and race”

Barbara Jordan

1936-1996

Noted politician and civil rights leader, widely considered to be the first openly lesbian representative elected to the United States.

Christine Jorgensen

1926–1989

American entertainer whose highly publicized gender change in the 1950s first brought widespread mainstream attention to transgender issues.

Frida Kahlo

1907–1954

Artist who used indigenous symbols, imagery, colors and traditions of Mexican culture to resolutely depict and celebrate women’s form and experience.