Jon Reed Sims

1947-1984

Founder of the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Marching Band and Twirling Corps (now San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band), the first openly LGBT musical group ever formed in United States history, and the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, the country’s first openly gay American choral group.

Edith Windsor

1929-2017

Celebrated champion for human rights whose courageous lawsuit for marriage equality transformed public perception and secured freedoms, privileges and benefits for married same-sex couples.

Sophie Xeon

1860–1935

Pioneering social reformer, activist for women’s rights and world peace, public philosopher, author, first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize