For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Mercedes de Acosta, an American poet, playwright, and novelist. Her autobiography detailed her love affairs with some of the world’s most famous women. De Acosta, the daughter of affluent Cuban immigrants, grew up in New York where, in the 1920s, she was …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Jean Chong, a Singaporean LGBT rights activist who co-founded Sayoni, the LGBT rights organization. Chong “always wished there were lesbian role models” and this led her to became an LGBT activist. She volunteered with a gay Christian support network, Safehaven where she …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, who became the world’s first openly LGBT head of government when elected as the Prime Minister of Iceland in 2009. Jóhanna was active in the trade union movement before entering politics in 1978 when she was elected as an MP. …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Renee Richards, a tennis player who became a transgender icon in 1977 when she won a lawsuit against the United States Tennis Association. Richards started playing tennis at an early age, and at the height of her tennis career, she ranked 20th …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Willa Cather, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the most prominent American writers of the early 20th century. She is best known for her novels “O Pioneers!” and “My Antonia.” Cather is now widely understood to be a lesbian. She lived …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Miss Major, a trans woman activist and community leader for transgender rights, who focussed on the rights of women of color. Miss Major is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, former sex worker, and survivor of Attica State Prison. She is …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Dr Louisa Martindale, a pioneering surgeon, an ardent suffragist and one of the most influential figures in Brighton in the early 20th century. Martindale’s mother believed that girls should have the same access to education as boys, and because of this she …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Lucy Hicks Anderson, a chef, socialite and prohibition-era entrepreneur who became the first trans woman to defend her identity in court. From a young age, Anderson knew she was a girl and insisted on wearing dresses to school. After a doctor reassured …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Barbara Gittings, a prominent American activist for LGBT equality who helped draw attention to the ban on employment of gay people by the United States government. Gittings organized the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis from 1958 to 1963, and …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Jacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy, best known by her stage name Coccinelle. She was a French actress, entertainer, singer and the first widely publicized post-war gender reassignment case in Europe. Coccinelle was a successful performer and media sensation. She built a singing career, …