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, …
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 …