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LGBTQ+ Pride Month

It’s Pride Month! The contributions of the LGBTQ/IA community have changed our world for the better in many ways. This month we’re honored to highlight their contributions and honor their work. May you enjoy health and safety if you head out into Pride celebrations.

Cleve Jones ProfilesMay 23, 2023 Activist Cleve Jones has made many contributions to the gay rights movement, including conceiving the idea for the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
Javier Gomez ProfilesMay 23, 2023 Queer activist Javier Gomez organized his high school classmates to protest a piece of homophobic legislation in Florida.
Olivia Julianna ProfilesMay 23, 2023 Olivia Julianna is a political strategist with a youth-led nonprofit that uses social media to educate, agitate, and raise funds for progressive causes.
Audre Lorde ProfilesMay 23, 2023 Audre Lorde dedicated her life to confronting injustice through her art and poetry, which tackled such subjects as racism, sexism, classism and homophobia. 
James Baldwin ProfilesMay 23, 2023 WriterJames Baldwin explored topics of race, social issues, and being black and gay in America.
Tom Ammiano ProfilesJune 21, 2022 Tom Ammiano is a politician, teacher, comedian, and esteemed figure in San Francisco's fight for LGBTQ+ rights.
Harry Britt ProfilesJune 20, 2022 Harry Britt succeeded Harvey Milk on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, where he spent 14 years fighting for the LGBTQ and progressive communities.
Howard Wallace ProfilesJune 19, 2022 Howard Wallace was an organizer and activist who helped unite the labor and gay rights movements.
Cheryl Summerville ProfilesJune 18, 2022 Cheryl Summerville is a gay rights activist who helped force a corporation to update its anti-discrimination policies.
Phill Wilson ProfilesJune 16, 2022 Phill Wilson is an activist who founded the nation's first organization dedicated to preventing the spread of AIDS and HIV in Black communities.
Morris Kight ProfilesJune 15, 2022 Morris Kight was an organizer, activist, and pioneer of the gay rights movement.
Irene Soloway ProfilesJune 14, 2022 Irene Soloway was a lesbian carpenter who fought for women in the trades and worked to make unions more inclusive.
Ashton Mota ProfilesJune 13, 2022 Ashton Mota is a Latinx transgender activist navigating the intersections of multiple marginalized identities.
James Hormel ProfilesJune 12, 2022 Former U.S. Ambassador James Hormel dedicated his life to ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic and fighting HIV-related stigma.
Jennicet Gutiérrez ProfilesJune 11, 2022 Jennicet Gutiérrez is a transgender activist fighting for the rights of trans women in immigration detention centers.
Frank Kameny ProfilesJune 10, 2022 Frank Kameny was fired from his government job for being gay in 1957; he devoted the rest of his life fighting for gay rights.
Joni Christian ProfilesJune 9, 2022 Joni Christian is a transgender rights activist who won better working conditions for LGBTQ+ people -- with the help of her union.
Herb Donaldson ProfilesJune 7, 2022 Herb Donaldson pushed back on systemic homophobia in San Francisco and helped in usher in a new area of gay rights.
Kim Coco Iwamoto ProfilesJune 5, 2022 Kim Coco Iwamoto is a transgender politician and activist who fights for universal healthcare, affordable housing, and economic justice.
Bayard Rustin ProfilesJune 4, 2022 Bayard Rustin played a critical role in the Civil Rights Movement who turned his activism toward fighting for LGBTQ rights later in his life.
Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin ProfilesJune 2, 2022 Lesbian activists Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin helped form the nation's first lesbian rights group in 1955; 50 years later they would be the first couple to be married by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Harvey Milk ProfilesJune 1, 2022 Harvey Milk was a politician and a seminal figure in the LGBTQ rights movement. His legacy continues to inspire a half-century after his assassination.