Puerto Rican photographer and Visual AIDS member Luis Carle took a photograph of Sylvia Rivera at the Saturday Rally before New York’s Gay Pride in 2000. Rivera is pictured with
It’s impossible to discuss black comedy without bringing up Jackie “Moms” Mabley. A pioneer in a field reserved mostly for heterosexual white men, to call her a trailblazer would be
Mother of the blues and creator of a lesbian anthem Ma Rainey is the undisputed “Mother of the Blues” and was a prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance. She inspired
Famed writer Henry David Thoreau, known for Walden (1845) and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) and many other writings was possibly a member of the LGBTQ
