Sylvia Rivera Headshot in color at the 25th Anniversary of Stonewall in New York. Rivera is smiling in a red shirt with a pink cardigan
Speech:

Bitch on Wheels

Speaker:

Sylvia Rivera

2001 - present / Gender Equity and LGBTQ+ Activism
Sylvia Rivera, a Venezuelan and Puerto Rican drag queen, is remembered as a prominent trans activist of color in LGBTQ+ history and one of the great heroes of the Stonewall Uprising. She was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1951. Rivera’s father left the family when she was a young child and her mother…  Read more.
Sean Patrick Maloney speaking in front of the House of Representatives in a suit, with a microphone and sign that says, "Representative Maloney"
Speech:

Statement on Religious Liberty and LGBTQ+ Adoption

Speaker:

Sean Patrick Maloney

2001 - present / Gender Equity, Human Rights, and LGBTQ+ Activism
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (1966–) began his political career working on Bill Clinton’s 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns. In Clinton’s second term, Maloney served as a senior West Wing adviser—known as the “highest ranking openly homosexual man on the White House staff.” After the Clinton administration, he worked in the corporate and legal worlds, returning…  Read more.
John Lewis in a color photo, speaking in front of a microphone in a suit. Screenshot from C-Span House proceedings with the captions "Live" and "Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia"
Speech:

Lewis Statement on Marriage Equality

Speaker:

John Lewis

2001 - present / Civil Rights and Gender Equity
John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was born on his family’s farm outside of Troy, Alabama. His parents, Willie Mae and Eddie Lewis, were sharecroppers. As a child, Lewis attended segregated public schools in Pike County, Alabama. In his memoir, Lewis wrote of encounters with racist violence and inequitable segregation during his childhood.  Read more.
This image is a screenshot from the video of Warren's "Boston Marathon" speech before the Senate, with the caption "Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts"
Speech:

Boston Marathon Bombing

Speaker:

Elizabeth Warren

2001 - present / National Security
Elizabeth (Herring) Warren was born on June 22, 1949 in Oklahoma to a struggling middle-class family. In 1968, she married Jim Warren and raised two children with him until they divorced ten years later. Warren graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in speech pathology from the University of Houston in 1970. After working as…  Read more.