Zora Neale Hurston, a folklorist, novelist and anthropologist, was a staple figure during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Yves Saint-Laurent is one of the most renowned figures in 20th century French fashion.
As a child, Laurent was incessantly taunted by his peers.
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Urvashi Vaid is an openly lesbian civil rights activist and attorney. She has dedicated herself to pursuing equal rights for LGBT persons for over 25 years.
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About 200 students woke up earlier than usual Wednesday on the Rutgers University campus. Some still in pajamas, they stood in the rain with signs in their hands, prepared to counter-protest against hate.
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Todd Oldham is an openly gay American fashion designer.
He was born in Texas in 1961. He discovered his love of fashion and design after designing his first dress at age 15.
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Tammy Baldwin is the first woman from Wisconsin to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and is the first openly gay person elected to Congress.
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Suze Orman is a financial advisor, motivational speaker, television personality and book author.
Her financial career began in 1980 when she became an account executive at Merill Lynch.
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Ruth Ellis is regarded by many as "America's Oldest Lesbian."
She was an African-American woman who came out as a lesbian in 1915 before graduating from Springfield High School in Illinois.
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Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist whose work provided the transition between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.
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Pink News reported that a lesbian couple will marry today in Toronto.
Irina Fedotova-Fet, 30, and Irina Shipitko, 32, attempted to marry in Russia in May but were turned away.
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Chicago-based group, Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX) is pushing public school libraries to insert a whole new class of books on their shelves about "reformed homosexuals.
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a polemic filmmaker associated with the New German Cinema movement.
Fassbinder was born in 1946 to a bourgeois family in Munich.
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Rachel Maddow is the first openly gay anchor to be hired to host prime-time news in the United States.
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Pauli Murray was an American lawyer, civil rights activist and ordained priest who fought for race and gender equality.
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Paul Monette was an openly gay memoirist, novelist, poet and activist. His work dealt with the gay struggle and recounted the loss of his partner to AIDS.
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Michel Foucault was a 20th Century French philosopher who challenged the concept of "normality" in society.
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Magnus Hirschfeld was a doctor in the late 19th and early 20th century that contributed greatly to the sexual emancipation movement in Europe.
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Kate Kendall is a nationally recognized spokesperson for LGBT rights.
She is a board member for the Equal Justice Society and the executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
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Spirited sport sedans
With Halloween around the corner, it's time for treats
By Joe Phillips
Friday, October 16, 2009
And lucky for gay and lesbian gearheads, there's plenty of eye candy in showrooms this fall.
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John Cage was a 20th century American composer, writer and conceptual artist whose contributions to the field of music and choreography proved influential to the postwar avant-garde and the development of modern dance.
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