For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Nicola Adams, is a former boxer who became the first to win an Olympic women’s boxing Gold medal. Adams started boxing the same year the ban on women’s boxing in the UK was lifted. She began boxing at age 13, and in …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Tracey ‘Africa’ Norman , the first African-American trans woman model to achieve prominence in the fashion industry. Norman was the face of Clairol’s ‘Born Beautiful’ Hair Color No. 512, Dark Auburn on the 1970s and appeared in such publications as Essence, Vogue …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Penny Wong, an Australian politician who has been a Senator for South Australia since 2002. She is the first female openly-LGBTI Australian federal parliamentarian and federal government cabinet minister. Wong was born in Malaysia but moved to Australia as a child. Before …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Parinya Charoenphol aka Nong Toom, a Thai boxer, former Muay Thai champion, model and actress. Nong Toom began her professional career as a 16 year old kathoey with a victory in Bangkok’s Lumpini Boxing Stadium which gained a lot of media attention …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Roberta Achtenberg, an American politician who serves as a commissioner of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She is the first openly gay presidential appointee confirmed by the Senate. Achtenberg was first elected to public office on the San Francisco Board of …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Angela Morley, a composer and conductor who became the first openly transgender person to be nominated for an Academy Award. Morley was a multi-instrumentalist who began her career playing in bands until in 1944 she joined the Geraldo Orchestra. As a composer, …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Amal Aden, a Somali–Norwegian author, lecturer and lesbian activist. Aden is a strong voice within the Norwegian LGBT movement. Aden published her first book in 2008. Her writing provides a unique insight into the social and psychological dynamics that exist in the …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Helen Zia, a Chinese-American journalist, award winning author and activist for Asian American and LGBTQ rights. Zia is a second generation Chinese American and has been outspoken on social justice issues ranging from human rights and peace to women’s rights and countering …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Christine Delphy, a French sociologist, feminist, writer and theorist known for pioneering materialist feminism. Delphy co-founded the French Women’s Liberation Movement (Mouvement de Libération des Femmes, or MLF) in 1970 and the journal Nouvelles questions féministes (New Feminist Issues) with Simone de …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, a Sri Lankan LGBT rights activist and founder of Equal Ground, the only mixed organization advocating for LGBTI rights in Sri Lanka. Flamer-Caldera is a co-founder of the Sri Lankan LBT organization, Women’s Support Group, which was established in 1999 …