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Annie Besant

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Annie Besant was a trade unionist, socialist, theosophist, women’s rights activist and philanthropist. Besant was a leading socialist and successful public speaker, filling halls across Britain for the National Secular Society. She was a prominent member of the Fabian society and the Marxist Social Democratic Federation (SDF). In 1877, she was prosecuted for publishing a …

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Waris Dirie

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Waris Dirie is a Somali model, author, actress and human rights activist in the fight against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). At 18, Dirie began her career as a model, in 1987 she graced the cover of the Pirelli Calendar and appeared in the James Bond film The Living Daylights. She became one of the first …

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Alexya Salvador

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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 …

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Chelsea Manning

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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 …

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Josephine Ho

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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 …

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Nicola Adams

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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 …

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Tracey Norman

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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 …

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Penny Wong

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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 …

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Parinya Charoenphol

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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 …

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Roberta Achtenberg

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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 …

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