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#QueerHeroes Day 30. Activists and organizers. This Pride wasn’t what we thought it would be when we were envisioning it last year, but in some ways, that's a good thing. The murders of Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, and countless others have reawakened in some of us what began Pride in the first …
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#QueerHeroes Day 29. Ernestine Eckstein. Eckstein moved to New York in the 60s after graduating from Indiana University, where she was a star student, with a degree in magazine journalism, government, and Russian. She learned from a friend in Greenwich Village what the word “gay” meant. That’s when she came into her lesbian identity. One of …
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#QueerHeroes Day 28. Billie Holiday. Lady Day got her start working in the buffet flats during the Harlem Renaissance. She was born Eleanora Fagan and changed her name to Billie after the silent film star Billie Dove. She was openly bisexual and her alleged lovers included many stage stars (Tallulah Bankhead is rumored to be among …
#QueerHeroes Day 27. Angel Haze Angel Haze is an agender pan Brooklyn rapper. As a child, she used writing as a form of therapy, with their first poem published at thirteen. She began freestyle rapping at 18 and quickly gained popularity through free streaming of their original songs on sites like SoundCloud. Her tracks are motivational …
#QueerHeroes Day 26. Sandra Caldwell. In the early days of her transition, Sandra walked the balls in the legendary House of LaBeija. But her passion was acting, and she would suppress her very identity to achieve it. For decades, Sandra "lived stealth"—a term used by trans people for those who pass as cisgender and conceal the …
