A brief history of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr social movements

gay women in history

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Activist Sylvia Rivera may be bt known for her participatn the 1969 uprisgs around the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York Cy. Though she married her clost iend, Robert Nemiroff, she secretly affirmed her homosexualy her letters and unpublished short stori. Katie Sowers, offensive assistant for the San Francis 49ers, beme the first woman and the first openly gay person to ach at the Super Bowl 2020.

No list of groundbreakg athlet would be plete whout Billie Jean Kg, one of the greatt women's tennis players of all time and a dited activist for gay rights and genr equaly. Dani Roem is the first openly transgenr person to be elected to the Virgia General Assembly, challengg and featg 13-term cumbent and self-scribed "chief homophobe" Bob Marshall the 2017 special electn.

She is the first Black woman, the first openly gay person, and only the send woman to be elected mayor of the cy, makg Chigo the largt U. She was the first Lata and the first openly gay person nomated for ernor by a major party Texas, but ultimately lost to Republin Governor Greg Abbott. She rose to fame as a Black lbian cross-drsg performer the 1920s, startg her reer one of New York's most notor gay speakeasi.

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A brief history of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr social movements.

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