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  1. Marin Alsop
  2. Chasten Buttigieg
  3. Madeline Davis
  4. Elana Dykewomon
  5. Tessa Ganserer
  6. Roxane Gay
  7. Lesley Gore
  8. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
  9. Brittney Griner
  10. Maura Healey
  11. Jazmine Hughes
  12. Eddie Izzard
  13. Michael R. Jackson
  14. Leslie Jordan
  15. Tina Kotek
  16. Marijane Meaker
  17. Scott Minerd
  18. Ryan Murphy
  19. Carl Nassib
  20. Stu Rasmussen
  21. Allen Schindler Jr.
  22. Charles Silverstein
  23. Andrew Solomon
  24. Michael Stipe
  25. Kara Swisher
  26. André Leon Talley
  27. Doris Taylor
  28. Evelyn Thomas
  29. Mpho Tutu van Furth
  30. Samira Wiley
  31. Penny Wong

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Jane Addams
Activist
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Virginia Apuzzo
Pioneering Activist
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Natalie Barney
Author
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Joan Biren
Documentarian
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Ivy Bottini
Women’s and LGBT Activist
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Charlotte Bunch
Scholar and Activist
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Patrick Califia
Author
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Margaret Cho
Entertainer
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Meg Christian
Feminist Singer-Songwriter
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Midge Costanza
Presidential Adviser
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Nancy Cárdenas
Mexican Writer & Activist
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Jeanne Córdova
Activist and Author
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Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
19th Century Orator
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Ani DiFranco
Grammy-Winning Singer
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Elana Dykewomon
Author & Activist
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Lillian Faderman
LGBT Historian
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Roxane Gay
Best-Selling Author
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Jewelle Gomez
Novelist
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Lesley Gore
Singer & Composer
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Bell Hooks
Author & Feminist
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Brenda Howard
Activist
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Johnnie Phelps
Decorated WWII Veteran
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June Jordan
Poet
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Frances Kellor
Social Activist
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Kay Lahusen
Gay Pioneer          
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Steve Letsike
South African Activist
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Anne Lister
Pioneering Feminist
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Irshad Manji
Muslim Reformist
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Pauli Murray
Attorney and Civil Rights Activist
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Holly Near
Singer/Songwriter  
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Ann Northrop
Pioneering AIDS Activist & Journalist
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Jean O’Leary
Pioneering Activist
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Elliot Page
Actor and Director
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Sally Ride
National Hero
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Ethel Smyth
Composer & Suffragette
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poet/Performer
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Susan B. Anthony
American Suffragist
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Lillian Wald
Community Nursing Founder
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Mary Edwards Walker
Surgeon
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Alice Walker
Author and Feminist
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Edith Wharton
Pulitzer-Winning Novelist
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