From Anne Hathaway to Lena Dunham, we look at the celebri pavg the way advotg gay, bisexual and transgenr rights
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She was black, queer, and trans — and fearlsly advoted for her rights and the rights of the LGBTQ muny at a time when dog so put her safety jeopardy.“As long as gay people don’t have their rights all across Ameri, there’s no reason for celebratn,” she once said.Johnson was a key figure of the 1960s gay rights movement the US and, as legend has , threw the brick that igned the famo Stonewall rts, which were the talyst for the movement and have spired many Pri march ever sce.In 1992, Johnson’s body was found the Hudson River.
She was once arrted for attemptg to climb through a wdow ( a drs and heels) to a room where the New York Cy Council was batg a gay rights bill, NBC reported.“Sylvia’s role gay history was that she was one of the first people to highlight that our movement need to be more clive of people who did not f the mastream,” Carrie Davis, Chief Programs and Policy Officer at New York Cy’s LGBT Communy Center, told NBC News.3.
9, 1977.Image: AP PhotoHarvey Milk, the subject of the Osr-wng film Milk, was the first openly gay polician to be elected California. Alice NkomEmbed om Getty ImagAlice Nkom is a human rights lawyer and LGBTQ activist om Cameroon, where homosexualy is still crimalized.