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, …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is June Chan, an Asian-American lesbian activist and biologist. Chan’s activism stems from her childhood recollections of racist attitudes to people in Chinatown. In 1983, she met Katherine Hall and the two began collaborating on projects including creating a slide show of Asian …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Busi Kheswa, an oral historian and LGBT activist from South Africa. Kheswa is a member of a number of LGBT organisations including the Gay and Lesbian Archives, which records the struggles and histories of LGBT South Africans, and uses their stories for …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting a #womaninhistory every day. Today is Sofi Oksanen, a Finnish-Estonian writer and playwright. Oksanen has published five novels, of which Purge earned her the title of “literary phenomenon” and a number of awards. The novel has since been translated into more than 40 languages. Oksanen is actively involved in …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting a #womaninhistory every day. Today is Juno Dawson a screenwriter, journalist and best-selling novelist of young adult and non-fiction including This Book is Gay, Margot & Me, and The Gender Games. Dawson’s books frequently feature LGBTQ+ people and she has fiercely advocated for other authors to feature more …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting a #womaninhistory every day. Today is Radclyffe Hall, an English poet and author. She is best known for the novel The Well of Loneliness, a groundbreaking work in lesbian literature which was thought obscene at the time and subsequently banned in Britain and the U.S. Hall had omitted sections …
For #LGBTHistoryMonth I will be posting a #womaninhistory every day. Today is Anne Lister an English landowner, business woman, intrepid traveller, mountaineer and diarist from Halifax, West Yorkshire who is sometimes described as ‘the first modern lesbian’. Lister was renowned for only dressing in dark clothing and rebelling against the strict gender stereotypes of her …
Patrisse Cullors is an artist, organizer, freedom fighter and queer activist. She is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter. Cullors became an activist as a teenager when joining the Bus Riders Union, a civil rights social movement organization. At the age of 16 she was forced to leave home after she revealed her queer identity to her parents. She formed a …
Gwendolyn Ann Smith is a transgender woman who founded Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day to memorialise people who have been killed as a result of anti-transgender prejudice. In 1992, Smith lobbied America Online, getting the company to change its policies and allow discussions on gender issues on their service. A year later, she created the Transgender Community …