LGBT History Month Icons: Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
19th Century Orator
b. October 28, 1842
d. October 22, 1932
“See to it, women who listen to me ... that no man take your crown.”
Elizabeth Dickinson...
LGBT History Month Icons: Lea Delaria
Comedian & Actor
b. May 23, 1958
“I’m a big butch dyke with a smile on my face.”
Lea DeLaria is an award-winning actor, a jazz singer...
LGBT History Month Icons: André De Shields
Actor & Singer
b. January 12, 1946
“The top of the mountain is the bottom of the next, so keep climbing.”
André De Shields is a queer...
LGBT History Month Icons 2022: Robert Cutler
National Security Advisor
b. June 12, 1895
d. May 8, 1974
“No man in the Government, with the possible exception of the President, knows so many of...
LGBT History Month Icons 2022: Kitty Cone
Disability Rights Activist
b. April 7, 1944
d. March 21, 2015
“For the first time, we had concrete federal civil rights protection.”
Curtis Selden “Kitty” Cone was a...
LGBT History Month Icons 2022: Nancy Cárdenas
Mexican Writer & Activist
b. May 29, 1934
d. March 22, 1994
“Of course, if we change the future, we change the past.”
Nancy Cárdenas was the first...
