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Alexis McGill Johnson
Alexis McGill Johnson (born 1972) is an American organizer and president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its Action Fund since 2020, after interim leadership from 2019; previously co-founded the Perception Institute.
Bella Abzug
Bella Abzug (Bella Savitzky, 1920–1998), "Battling Bella," American labor and civil rights lawyer, antiwar activist, and three-term Democratic congresswoman from New York, 1971–1977; first federal gay rights bill, Child Development Act, NWPC cofounder, 1977 National Women's Conference presiding officer.
Dan Savage
Dan Savage (born 1964, Chicago) is an American sex-advice columnist, author, and LGBT activist. He created "Savage Love" (The Stranger, 1991), the Savage Lovecast podcast, and co-founded the It Gets Better Project.
John Stoltenberg
John Stoltenberg, American radical feminist author of Refusing to be a Man (1989) and The End of Manhood (1993), co-founder of Men Against Pornography, and Andrea Dworkin's widower.
Kiyoshi Kuromiya
Kiyoshi Kuromiya (1943–2000), Japanese American Philadelphia activist; GLF-Philadelphia co-founder, Selma marcher, Black Panther convention delegate, and founder of the Critical Path AIDS Project.
Linda Sarsour
Linda Sarsour (born 1980) is a Palestinian-American Muslim activist from Brooklyn, former executive director of the Arab American Association of New York, co-founder of MPower Change, and national co-chair of the 2017 Women's March.
Meena Harris
Meena Harris (Meenakshi Ashley Harris), born 1984, is an American lawyer, author, and founder of the Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign, and the niece of Kamala Harris.
Meg Mathews
Meg Mathews, British former music and fashion PR, ex-wife of Noel Gallagher, Britpop figure turned menopause campaigner via MegsMenopause, #MegsMenopause, and the book The New Hot.
Peter Tatchell
Peter Tatchell (born 1952, Melbourne) is a British human rights campaigner active since 1967, known for the Gay Liberation Front, OutRage!, the 1983 Bermondsey by-election, Mugabe citizen's arrests, and the Peter Tatchell Foundation.
Qandeel Baloch
Qandeel Baloch (Fauzia Azeem), Pakistani social media celebrity murdered by her brother Waseem in Multan in July 2016 in an honor killing; her death prompted Pakistan's 2016 anti-honor-killing law, his 2019 life sentence, and 2022 acquittal.
Sam Brinton
Sam Brinton (Samuel Otis Brinton, born 1987) is an American nuclear engineer and LGBTQ activist, first openly genderfluid DOE official, fired in December 2022 after airport luggage theft charges; known for anti-conversion therapy advocacy.
Sean Eldridge
Sean Eldridge, American political activist, Freedom to Marry communications and political director (2010-2011), OutRight Action International board member, NY LEAD co-founder, and 2014 Democratic House candidate in New York's 19th District; husband of Chris Hughes.
Swati Maliwal (स्वाति मालीवाल)
Swati Maliwal (स्वाति मालीवाल), Indian activist and Rajya Sabha MP from Delhi since January 2024; former Delhi Commission for Women chairperson (2015-2024), known for anti-rape hunger strikes, the 2024 Bibhav Kumar assault case, and later defection from AAP to the BJP.
Sylvia Rivera
Sylvia Rae Rivera (1951–2002) was an American gay liberation and transgender rights activist who said she took part in the 1969 Stonewall uprising and co-founded STAR to shelter homeless queer youth.