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.
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.
Speech:

The Feminist Movement and the Gay Movement: How Are They Related?

Speaker:

Laurie Morton

1961 - 1980 / Gender Equity, LGBTQ+ Activism, and Social Justice
Laurie Morton was a prominent member of the Radical Women organization based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1967, the group claims to be the oldest socialist feminist organization in existence. As a social feminist group, its members were committed to “exposing, resisting, and eliminating the inequities of women’s existence."  Read more.
Speech:

Respecting Choice: Genital Surgery as an Option

Speaker:

Martine Rothblatt

1981 - 2000 / Gender Equity and LGBTQ+ Activism
Martine Rothblatt, a prolific innovator, musician, and one of the wealthiest transgender people in the world, was born in 1954 in Chicago and raised in a suburb of San Diego. Rothblatt went to college at UCLA where they earned an MBA and JD. After graduating from UCLA, Rothblatt met and married their second spouse, Bina.…  Read more.
Speech:

Stop the Hate

Speaker:

Nancy Wohlforth

1981 - 2000 / Labor Justice and LGBTQ+ Activism
Nancy F. Wohlforth (1945 - present)—a union leader and labor activist—was known for her fierce commitment to social justice issues. She was especially known for her work to secure fair treatment of labor rights for gays and lesbians. Her upbringing was influenced by socialist parents whose lives were affected greatly by the insecurity of the…  Read more.