List of LGBT rights activists
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A list of LGBT rights activists by country.
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[edit] Canada
- Byren Beniuk
- Jack Layton
- Dylan Maskalyk
- Andrew Polturak
- James Young
[edit] Australia
- Jamie Gardiner
- Rodney Croome
- Rod Swift
- Rachael Wallbanks
[edit] Germany
[edit] Ireland
[edit] Italy
- Mario Mieli
[edit] People's Republic of China
[edit] Romania
[edit] Sierra Leone
[edit] South Africa
[edit] United Kingdom
- Antony Grey
- John Chesterman
- Peter Tatchell
- Robert Beach
- Robert Crossman
- Ian McKellen
- Robert Mellors
- Robert Palmer
- Jeremy Bentham
[edit] United States of America
- Tammy Baldwin (born 1962), member of the Democratic Party who has served as a member of Congress from Wisconsin since 1999.
- Chastity Bono (born 1969), daughter of Sonny Bono and Cher.
- David P. Brill (1955 - 1979), Boston-based journalist.
- Margarethe Cammermeyer (born 1942), former colonel in the Washington state National Guard whose coming out story was made into the 1995 movie Serving in Silence, starring Glenn Close.
- Samuel R. Delany (born 1942), gay African-American science fiction author whose works prominently feature homosexuality.
- Tony Diaman, co-founder of the Gay Liberation Front, which was formed in the wake of the Stonewall riots in 1969.
- Matt Foreman (born 1953), Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF).
- Barney Frank (born 1940), member of the Democratic Party who has served as a member of Congress from Massachusetts since 1981.
- Aaron Fricke (born 1962), who successfully sued the Cumberland, Rhode Island school system in 1980 for the right to bring his boyfriend to the senior prom.
- Harry Hay (1912 - 2002), founder of the Mattachine Society, the first gay rights group in the United States.
- Brenda Howard (1946 - 2005), an instrumental figure in the immediate post-Stonewall era in New York City.
- Barbara Gittings (1932 - 2007), founder of the New York City chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis who also pushed for the American Psychological Association to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM).
- Jill Johnston, New York City-based author who wrote the seminal Lesbian Nation in 1973.
- Frank Kameny (born 1925), participant in many gay rights rallies of the 1960s and 1970s, most notably the push in 1972-1973 for the American Psychological Association to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM).
- Morris Kight (1919 - 2003), founder of Los Angeles' Gay and Lesbian Front and Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.
- Cheryl Jacques (born 1962), former member of the Massachusetts State Legislature and the president of the Human Rights Campaign from January through November 2004. She resigned from this post less than a month after the passage of 11 state constitutional amendments banning gay marriage.
- Larry Kramer (born 1935), author and playwright who helped form the prominent gay rights organizations Gay Men's Health Crisis and AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP).
- Scott Long (born 1963), Executive Director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch.[citation needed]
- Phyllis Lyon (born 1924), lesbian activist who co-founded the Daughters of Bilitis with longtime partner Del Martin.
- Del Martin (born 1921), lesbian activist who co-founded the Daughters of Bilitis with longtime partner Phyllis Lyon.
- David McReynolds (born 1929), left-wing activist who has run for President as a member of Socialist Party USA in 1980 and 2000, and as ran for Senator from New York as a member of the Green Party in 2004.
- Harvey Milk (1930 - 1978), openly gay city supervisor of San Fransisco, California who was assassinated (along with mayor George Moscone) in 1978.
- Gavin Newsom (born 1967), heterosexual mayor of San Fransisco, California who directed his office to issue wedding licenses to same-sex couples in February 2004. This process was halted the next month by the California Supreme Court.
- Jean O'Leary (1948 - 2005), former Roman Catholic nun who helped found National Coming Out Day in 1987.
- Tully Satre (born 1989), blogger who gained fame in March 2006 for challenging then-Senator George Allen at a political meeting in Culpeper, Virginia.
- Joe Solmonese (born 1965), former political fundraiser and current (as of March 2007) president of the Human Rights Campaign.
