10/03/2025
It is officially LGBTQ History Month! Here are a few trailblazers who have shaped the LGBTQ community today.
🏳️🌈Marsha P Johnson was a black trans political activist and self-identified drag queen. Marsha fought for AIDS awareness and was a protester at the Stonewall riots. Marsha also founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) which fought for the rights and proper housing for Transgender folk.
🏳️🌈Harvey Milk became the first openly gay elected official in US history in San Francisco's Board of supervisors. He gained popularity for his leadership and outspoken concern for conservative politics that limited homosexual freedoms.
🏳️🌈Barabra Gittings was an openly le***an political activist who fought for the rights of LGBTQ individuals. Through her activism the ADA denounced homosexuality as a disease when she had an open demonstration where a physiatrist spoke on behalf of the LGBTQ community to conclude homosexuality was not a mental disorder.
🏳️🌈Magnus Hirschfeld was a German physiologist who founded the Institute of Sexual Science and advocated for Gay and Transgender rights. He dedicated his life to studying homosexuality and proved that it is not a choice. He also coined terms and developed early theories about what we now call sexual orientation and gender identity.
🏳️🌈Radclyffe Hall’s 1928 novel The Well of Loneliness was one of the first major works in English to portray le***an love as natural and deserving of respect. Its obscenity trial and subsequent ban in Britain sparked public debate, bringing q***r identities into mainstream conversation for the first time. Her courage in living openly as a le***an and writing unapologetically about same-sex love made her a foundational figure in LGBTQ literary and cultural history.
Whether through music, literature, politics, or performance there is always space for our community. We honor all of the important figures who have made it possible for the LGBTQ to get as far as we have today!
