Congressīillie Jean King, former professional tennis player, pioneer for gender equality and social justice
Sharice Davids, lawyer and politician, the first openly LGBT Native American elected to the U.S. Sally Ride, astronaut and physicist, the first American woman in space Margaret Chung, the first known Chinese-American woman physician Johnson, gay liberation activist, pioneering trans activist and advocate for homeless LGBTQ youth Joan Nestle, writer and editor and a founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives Anzaldua, scholar of Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theoryīlair Imani, queer African-American Muslim author and activist Nadine Smith, LGBT activist an executive director of Equality Floridaīeth Brant, poet and author whose work focused on her identity as a Mohawk and a lesbianĪndrea Jenkins, poet, artist, and the first black openly transgender woman elected to public office in the US Roma Guy, LGBT and women’s rights activist Harmony Hammond, artist, author and pioneer of the feminism art movementĬrystal Jang, co-founder of the Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender CommunityĪchebe Powell, educator and organizer, founder of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justiceīrenda Howard, bisexual rights activist who is often referred to as the “Mother of Pride”Īudre Lorde, poet, author, feminist, and civil rights activist Pauli Murray, civil rights and women’s rights activist, lawyer, author and priestĪrden Eversmeyer, founder of the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project June is LGBTQ Pride Month, and all month long we will be celebrating and honoring important women in the LGBTQ community, including many of the women shown here: