Sexual Orientation-LGBTQ
Dontae Payne
In November 2023 Dontae Payne was elected mayor of Olympia, Washington. He is the first African American and openly gay...
Lucy Diggs Slowe (1883-1937)
Lucy Diggs Slowe was a trailblazer as an academic and athlete. In 1922, she was the first African American woman...
Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim (1989- )
Uyaiedu Ikpe-Etim is a Nigerian director, screenwriter and producer extoled for her depiction of LGBTQ+ lives in a humane light....
Kenneth E. Reeves (1951- )
Kenneth E. Reeves, the first African American Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was born Kenneth Errol Reeves in Detroit, Michigan, on...
Leah Penniman (1980- )
Leah Penniman is a farmer and food sovereignty activist who cofounded Soul Fire Farm near Grafton, New York, in 2010....
Laphonza Romanique Butler (1979- )
On October 1, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom chose well-known labor organizer and political strategist Laphonza Butler to be the...
Raphael W. Bostic (1966- )
Raphael Bostic is the chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. In addition, he serves on the...
Karine Jean-Pierre (1977- )
Karine Jean-Pierre is an American political campaign organizer, political commentator, author, university lecturer, and activist. She is the first “Black,...
Rosario Isabel Dawson (1979- )
Actor, Advocate Rosario Isabel Dawson was born on May 9, 1979, in Brooklyn, New York to Patrick C. Harris, of...
