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  8. Ernestine Eckstein
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  14. Patricia Highsmith
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David Adamany
University President
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Kwame Anthony Appiah
Philosopher & Author
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Virginia Apuzzo
Pioneering Activist
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Walter Arlen
Composer & Holocaust Survivor
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Ann Bannon
Author
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Katharine Lee Bates
Songwriter
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Billy Bean
Major League Baseball Player
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Carolyn Bertozzi
Scientist
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John Boswell
Historian
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Jennifer Finney Boylan
Author & Transgender Activist
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Allan Bérubé
Historian
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George Washington Carver
Scientist
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Lynn Conway
Computer Pioneer
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Ramon Cortines
Educator
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Midge Costanza
Presidential Adviser
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Angela Davis
Civil Rights Activist
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Martin Duberman
Historian
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John D’Emilio
LGBTQ Historian
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Laïla El-Métoui
LGBTQ+ Educator
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Ella Jenkins
First Lady of Children’s Music
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Michel Foucault
Philosopher
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John Fryer
Psychiatrist and Dr. H. Anonymous
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Robert Garcia
Congressman
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Peter Gomes
Theologian
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Angelina Weld Grimké
Poet and Playwright
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Kevin Jennings
Activist/Educator
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June Jordan
Poet
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Alain Locke
Father of the Harlem Renaissance
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Irshad Manji
Muslim Reformist
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Deirdre McCloskey
Economist and Economic Historian
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Robyn Ochs
Bisexual Activist
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Catherine Opie
Photographer
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Antonia Pantoja
Educator and Activist
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Renée Richards
Transgender Pioneer
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Sally Ride
National Hero
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Marlon Riggs
Filmmaker
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Ashok Row Kavi
Indian Gay Pioneer and Journalist
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Richard Schneider
Editor & Publisher
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Robt Martin Seda-Schreiber
Social Justice Activist
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Kyrsten Sinema
Congresswoman
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Lou Sullivan
Transgender Activist     
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Evelyn Thomas
Evelyn Thomas - U.S. Military Activist
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Virginia Uribe
Educator
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Vaughn Walker
Federal Judge
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Rodney Wilson
Gay History Month Founder
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