For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Alexya Salvador who calls herself the “first transgender shepherd of Latin America” Salvador made history when she held Cuba’s first ever LGBTQ friendly mass in May 2017. She and other trans pastors preached about God’s love and acceptance of the very community …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Chelsea Manning, a former US soldier, activist and whistleblower. In 2010, Manning began leaking documents to Wikileaks which became known as “the Iraq War logs”. Around the same time, she disclosed to her supervisor her wish to transition. Three years later, she …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Josephine Ho, one of the most known feminist scholars in Taiwan. She is called “the godmother of the Taiwanese queer movement.” Ho has been a women’s rights activist since the 1990s when she led Taiwan’s first demonstration against sexual harassment, and devised …
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 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 …