LGBT History Month Icon 2021: Susan B. Anthony
American Suffragist
b. February 15, 1820
d. March 13, 1906
“Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less.”
Susan Brownell Anthony was an American...
LGBT History Month Icon 2021: W.H. Auden
Poet
b. February 21, 1907
d. September 29, 1973
“If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.”
Wystan Hugh (W.H.) Auden was a Pulitzer Prize-winning...
LGBT History Month Icon 2021: Frank Bruni
New York Times Columnist
b. October 31, 1964
“It’s a hell of a thing to have your identity, your dignity — your very hold on happiness...
LGBT History Month Icon 2021: Frédéric Chopin
Composer
b. March 1, 1810
d. October 17, 1849
“Sometimes I can only groan, suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!”
Frédéric Chopin was a famous...
LGBT History Month Icon 2021: David Cicilline
U.S. Congressman
b. July 15, 1961
“The American people deserve to know who will stand up and speak out for those on the margins of society.”
David...
LGBT History Month Icon 2021: Mart Crowley
Playwright
b. August 21, 1935
d. March 7, 2020
“I had no agenda in writing this play except expressing myself.”
Mart Crowley was a gay American playwright famous...
