US History: Changemakers (2025): LGBTQ+ Rights
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AIDS Memorial Quilt
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AIDS Memorial Quilt, D.C [crop]. Photo by teytan. 2012. Wikimedia Commons.
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Why the Stonewall Riots represented a 'sea change' for LGBTQ rights
Transgender Rights, Won Over Decades, Face New Restrictions
Patricia Highsmith
Daughters of Bilitis / Phyllis Lyon & Del Martin
Phyllis Lyon & Del Martin: Lesbian Rights Pioneers
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Daughters of Bilitis
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Mattachine Society / Frank Kameny
Frank Kameny: Gay Rights Pioneer
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Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk, Gay Rights Activist, Politician
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Harvey Milk Portal (Biography in Context)Collection of great resources on Milk's life and legacy.
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Richard Isay
Richard Isay: Gay Rights Activist
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Richard A. Isay (Gale Biography)A set of articles about Isay & his legacy.
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Stonewall Riots/Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson: LGBT Rights Pioneer
Sylvia Rivera
Sylvia Rivera: LGBT Rights Pioneer
Larry Kramer
Larry Kramer: Playwright & Activist
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The Activists
How ACT UP — the coalition that fought against AIDS stigma and won
medications that slowed the plague — forever changed patients’ rights,
protests and American political organizing as it’s practiced today.
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