10 LGBTQ+ People You Should Know About [CC]

hello lovely people as you may have heard in celebration of Pride Month I was planning on making many many rainbow related videos this month many of fun then I injured my back ride up in hospital now my right leg is like sammy paralyzed you know half paralyzed five excruciatingly painful it actually hurts whether I'm sitting standing or lying down that's added an exciting new edge to my day so we're starting a little late in the month but oh well I think this video is a pretty great way to kick

things off you may have seen my strong profile series of queer or disabled people before if you haven't there's the link in the card above and this is a take on that but even more queer as well be telling you about 10 amazing LGBTQ plus people you really should know so this is our normal rainbow and this is today's rainbow subscribe if you two want to find the portion of fabulous gold at the end of that rainbow I also want to acknowledge that this part month is really quite different to previous

year's coronavirus and police brutality have brought a very serious tone to our awareness and in light of both covert 19's disproportionate impact on the non-white members of our society and that being LGBTQ plus is darn hard enough when you're white it's important to be champion our POC siblings as such this is not another list of ten LGBTQ plus people that's like nine white Ciskei men and one black trans lesbian because they're already enough of those websites they don't really care the rest

of the year hmm yes shade or Adsense revenue from this video will be donated to the Community Justice exchanges national bail fund network so subscribe turn off your ad blocker and refresh the page in order to give the maximum contribution for watching this video and you don't even have to do anything you just watch a video in no particular order here are my ten notable LGBTQ plus figures you should know ten Saphir Jax Blake and Margaret Todd the Victorian science wives yes I am counting these t

wo is one pretty much every listicle does that with rose and Rosie so I am just jumping on the bandwagon fear jacks Blake was born excruciating with leather in the 21st of January 1842 unfortunately traditional parents said strict parents refused to allow her to attend University and instead championed her equally clever brother Thomas Jack's Blake who fair enough go on to be dean of wells cathedral but you know boo sexism Saphir was not standing for any of that nonsense and in 1858 enrolled in

Queens College London where she met all of those notable suffragettes and feminists her parents were worried about in 1859 while still a student she was offered a post as mathematics tutor at the college where she stayed until 1861 without pay because her family did not expect they'd order an living and her father refused her permission to accept a salary dreaming big she decided to pursue becoming a doctor despite no English medical school allowing women to attend she turned her sights to Scotl

and instead which was open to women good on you Scotland the University of Edinburgh allowed entrance to a select group of women Saphir was among the first known as the Edinburgh seven the women faced great opposition including being barred from the gates and attacked by a mob severe passed her exams with flying colours but was then forbidden to practice medicine in Britain because of her gender so in 1877 MP Russell Gandhi convinced Parliament to pass a law that empowered medical schools to iss

ue degrees to both male and female students Saphir became a practicing doctor that very year and opened a clinic that served low-income women she was the leading campaigner for medical education for women and was involved in founding two medical schools for women in London and Edinburgh at a time when no other schools were training women to be doctors Scottish student Margaret Todd joined the newly opened Edinburgh school for women in 1886 while she was studying she was also writing a novel Moan

a McLean medical student and she just casually invented the word isotrope so just normal student life then the two women lived together and are assumed to have been in a romantic relationship although I do say assumed to be in the way that you used with any two people who are probably sexually involved and definitely share their entire lives together but aren't legally married because you know it's illegal so basically exactly like my wife and I but without that one little piece of paper and the

goodwill of the majority of society fun fact only 8% of the British population now think gay marriage should be banned only eight Margaret's affair together being cool doctor wives in a way that definitely warrants miniseries until Sophia's death in 1912 Margaret died shortly to publishing a biography of severe unfun fat Margaret Hodge doctor for many years and author of six novels and her biography is only remembered for suggesting the word isotrope to her male friend that he then used in his

work so Dolores Del Rio hollywood's latina lady leopard with a career spanning more than five decades Dolores Del Rio is regarded as the first major female Latin American crossover star in Hollywood as we talked about in my Marlene Dietrich's video which the link is in the card above in the 30s and 40s bisexual style Marlene went so far as to set up an official meet up for her and her other non-heterosexual girlfriends known as the sewing circle the group according to the New York Times was made

up of Hollywood women who either bisexual committed to lesbianism just visiting and God bless that phrase who me I don't live here I'm just visiting this bus for the weekend they met at one another's houses for lunch conversation and possibilities sex I'm totally talking about sex the sewing circle sometimes met at the house of Dolores Del Rio then married Cedric Gibbons the MGM art director ate Jonathan Van Ness Queer Eye for the non-binary style born on the 20th of March 1987 Jonathan Van Nes

s is an American hair dresser and television personality who is internationally known as the grooming expert in the Netflix series queer eye the host of web parody series gave Thrones and for the getting curious with Jonathan Van Ness podcasts and his exceptionally shiny hair sometimes I just stare at it openly gay throughout his life Jonathan recently realized he was also gender non-conforming and non-binary his preferred gender pronouns are he/him his but he has indicated that he is okay with

being referred to with she her or they them as well he's said in a recent interview growing up I definitely put on every nail polish every heel every scarf I definitely had my mum's knockoff hermès scars in my hair and around my waist those were my skirts and I loved it but when I was really really young I had really fem Shamy gender Shamy reactions when I would dress like that but I would play with those things I knew it needed to be behind closed doors he experienced bullying for his femininit

y and natural flamboyance as well as death threats after finding fame in response she found humor to be an excellent coping mechanism I relied on a small group of close friends for support in a 20-19 interview with the New York Times you revealed a history of drug addiction issues childhood sexual abuse and his HIV positive diagnosis at the age of 25 Alicia Garza born in 1981 grew up in Oakland California with a white Jewish father and a black mother she graduated in 2002 from the University of

California San Diego with degree in anthropology and sociology and went to work as a civil rights activist and editorial writer she's organized around the issues of anti racism health rights for domestic workers and in police brutality and violence against trans and gender non-conforming people of color she is currently the special projects director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance America's leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United State

s along with opal tometi and Patrice conquerors she co-founded black lives matter a globally recognized organizing project that focuses on combating anti black state sanctioned violence and the oppression of all black people she is a credited with creating the original black lives matter slogan when after the July 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin she posted on Facebook black people I love you I love us our lives matter black lives matter which can't los

e then shared with hashtag hashtag black lives matter Alicia identifies as queer and her work challenges the misconception that only cisgender black men encounter police and state violence she's clear that in order to truly understand how devastating and widespread racially based ones is in America it must be viewed through an intersectional lens of race gender sexual orientation and gender identity if you would like to make a contribution to the black lives matter organization to support their

work you will find a direct link to donate in the description below okay six Magnus Hirschfeld German physician and sexologist who advocated for homosexual and transgender rights pass me to destroy some more German pronunciation I'm sorry dad Magnus was born in 1868 to Ashkenazi Jewish family in Kolberg now collar collar collars as the son of a highly regarded physician and senior medical officer after initially studying philosophy and philology the study of language in oral and written historic

al sources he went on to study medicine in Strasbourg Munich Heidelberg and Berlin until he earned his doctorate degree turn until he earned his doctoral degree in 1892 also discovered his own homosexuality during this time after graduating he travelled to through the United States for eight months living from the proceeds of his writing for German Jarrell OH my body hurts and I'm rolling up after graduating he travelled through the United States for eight months living from the proceeds of his

writing for German journals during his time in Chicago Hirschfeld became involved with the city's homosexual subculture and he was struck by the similarities between the way gay people lived their lives in Chicago and Berlin and thus first developed his theory about the universality of homosexuality across the world I know I know but in those days they just didn't realize that secretly deep down in our back was about being all gays but you do know each other and we are the same your mama's right

I'm just trying to introduce you to the other lesbian and asked if you already knew her probably did Magnus continued his research looking at gay subcultures in Rio de Janeiro Tangier and taking his interest in gay rights came from not only his own sexuality but also because so many of his gay patients took their own life in the German language the word for suicide translates to self murder and carries more judgmental and condemnatory connotations than its english-language equivalent especially

at the time making the subject of suicide a taboo in 19th century Germany one patient in particular had touched his heart this young man had left behind a suicide note that said despite his best efforts he could not end his desires for other men and so it ended his life at his guilt and shame the officer could not even bring himself to use the word homosexuality which was instead conspicious Lee referred to as that in his note Magnus had been treating the young officer for depression and he ent

ered his suicide note with a hopeful thought that perhaps Magnus's work could contribute to a future when the German fatherland will think of us in more just terms sweetens the hour my death madness was struck by the number of his gay patients who had scars left by suicide attempt and vowed to try to give his patients a reason to live he founded the scientific humanitarian committee historian Dustin Galt's characterized this group as having carried out the first advocacy for homosexual and trans

gender rights he identified as a campaigner and a scientist investigating and cataloguing many varieties of sexuality not just homosexuality he developed a system which categorized 64 possible types of sexual intermediary on a spectrum that intersected with gender and included the term transvestite which he coined in 1910 to describe people who in the 21st century might be referred to as transgender he died on his 67th birthday of a heart attack in his apartment in Nice his body was cremated and

the ashes and tied in a simple tune with his motto her signed him add just in iam v Marsha P Johnson gender nonconforming Stonewall starter one of seven siblings in a poor and devoutly religious family from Elizabeth New Jersey in the 1940s Marsha first began wearing dresses at the age of five but stopped temporarily due to harassment by boys who lived in the neighborhood Marsha was the victim of sexual assault by an older boy at a young age was repeatedly told the being homosexuals liked being

lower than a dog as such Marsha felt was growing up that the idea of being gay was some sort of dream rather than something that seemed actually possible and so chose to identify as asexual until leaving for New York City at 17 with just $15 and a bag of clothes Marsha waits on tables after arriving in the Greenwich Village area in 1966 and after meeting gay people who lived in the city finally felt that it was possible to be gay and was able to come out she became a fixture of street life in G

reenwich Village for almost three decades as an activist sex worker and drag performer she was usually destitute and for much of her life effectively homeless along with battling severe mental illness yet Marsha was a central figure in a gay liberation movement energized by the 1969 police raid on the Stonewall Inn and even modeled for Andy Warhol stone will help to galvanize a more assertive even the gay rights movement it prompted the first gay pride parades in 1970 the Samiha Marsha joined Sy

lvia Rivera in founding Street transvestite action revolutionaries or star to advocate for young transgender people and for time house clothes and feed them from a tenement at 213 East Street star grew at the Gay Liberation Front which advocated for sexual liberation and pushed to align gay rights with other social movement many transgender people have also come to Heil Johnson and her longtime friend and colleague Rivera as pioneering heroes the term transgender was not in wide use in Johnson's

lifetime she usually used female pronouns for herself but she also referred south as a gay man transvestite or simply as the Queen Susan Stryker an associate professor of gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona wrote that Marsha P Johnson could be perceived as the most marginalized of people black queer gender non-conforming poor you might expect a person in such a position to be fragile brutalized and beaten down instead Marsha had this joy de vivre and a capacity to find joy i

n a world of suffering she channeled it into political action and did it with a kind of fierceness grace and whimsy with a loopy absurdist reaction to a tall fall storm a to Lavery for me domi stop it I'm deaf leave me alone lesbian Stonewall starter Strom H Lavery was born in 1920 although her exact date of birth was unknown even to her so she celebrated her birthday on December 24th her father was white and her mother was a black sound who worked for his family as a child stromae faced bullyin

g and harassment both her skin color and masculine presentation she realized she was gained at the age of 18 after discovering the term lesbian as a teenager she wrote jumping horses with the Ringling Brothers Circus but stopped after being injured in a fall she went on to work as an MC singer bouncer bodyguard and volunteer street patrol worker known as the guardian of lesbians in Greenwich Village she was described as a typical New York City butch and a Dyke stone butch she performed and hoste

d at the Apollo Theater and Radio City Music Hall but she is remembered for a lot more than just entertainment in fact many believe that she was the catalyst for the Stonewall at the Stonewall Rebellion a scuffle broke out when a woman in handcuffs who is believed to be stromae was roughly escorted from the door of the bar to the waiting police wagon she'd been hit on the head by an officer with a baton for as one witness stated announcing that her handcuffs were too tight and she was bleeding p

rofusely from the wound she escaped and was brought back through the crowd several times by police she fought with at least four of the police swearing and shouting for about ten minutes she turned to bystanders and yelled why don't you guys do something sparing the crowd to rush to her and their own defense as an officer picture up and heave turned to the back of the wagon the crowd became a mob and went berserk as some reported well those two made herself disliked it being called a riot it was

a rebellion it was an uprising it was a civil rights disobedience it wasn't no damn riot she said as the spark that ignited the uprising some have referred to her as the gay community's Rosa Parks Tremaine her partner Diana lived together for 25 years until Diana's death in the 1970s according to friends stromae carried a photograph of her love with her at all times and continued to do so long after her death whoa this is why we phone in the studio three Sylvia Rivera I took a lot of pain medic

ation and I'm really in pain and I'm gonna say Riviera probably more than once I'm really sorry about that Sylvia was born and raised in New York City and lived there for most of her life she was a Puerto Rican and Venezuelan descent she was a mountain by her birth father Jose Rivera early in life and became an orphan at the age of three she was then raised by a Venezuelan grandmother who disapproved of Sylvia's effeminate behavior particularly after she began to wear makeup in fourth grade as a

result Rivera began living on the streets at the age of 11 she was taken in by local community of drag queens who gave her the name Sylvia after Stonewall Riots where she was said to have thrown the first brick Rivera started star-streak transvestite action revolutionaries a group focused on providing shelter and support to queer homeless youth with Marsha P Johnson however some contested Sylvia wasn't actually involved in the original stonewall riot she once been proudly speaking about her inv

olvement in the riot publicly shut down by Marsha who replied Sylvia you know you weren't there she was only 70 at the time of the riot and was known to frequent the parties uptown and didn't come downtown to join the protesters until well into the riot reportedly however it was requested by other Stonewall veterans that her main be added to the list of rioters so that young Porto Rican transgender people on the street could have a role model in interviews and writings in her later years notably

her 1995 interview with Randy wicker and her 2002 essay Queens and exile The Forgotten ones she expressed a fluid take on gender firing to herself tentatively as a gay man a gay girl a drag queen and a street quick Ruth Ellis the oldest lesbian ever kind of semantics Ruth Charlotte Ellis was an african-american woman who became widely known as the oldest surviving open lesbian and LGBT rights activist at the age of a hundred and one born on July 23rd 1899 she was the youngest of four children a

nd the only daughter in the family her parents have been born in the last years of slavery in Tennessee and her father Charles Ellis senior was the first African American mail carrier and Illinois after having originally been born a slave Ruth came out as a lesbian in 1915 at the age of 16 when she found a psychology textbook where I actually explained what a lesbian was not a common term back in those days however Ruth claimed to never have had to come out to her family as they were very accept

ing and open and knew she was different from the start she graduated from Springfield High School in 1919 at homeand fewer than seven percent of African Americans graduated from secondary school in the 1920s she met the only woman she ever lived with Cecily and Franklin otherwise known as babe they moved together in Detroit Michigan in 1937 Ruth works a nanny for a young white boy being paid $7 a week which today is worth about a hundred and twenty-five dollars a week however she'd had some expe

rience with a printing press back home and worked a secured position with water hadn't he where she worked until opening her own press out of the West Side house she shared with Dave their house was also known in the african-american community as the gay spot it was a central location for gay and lesbian parties and also served as a refuge for queer african-american teenagers who had been kicked out of home she would continue to support those who needed books food or systems with college tuition

throughout her long life on her 100th birthday she led amis son happy birthday to by his San Francisco's Dyke March of 1999 she died in her sleep in the early morning hours of October the 5th 2000 her ashes were spread in the following woman's festival and into the Atlantic Ocean off of Ghana now the one Loren Morelli and Samara Wylie the cutest wives ever Lauren Morelli is an American producer screenwriter and director she began with short stories and small blog pieces and her she launched her

first professional fighting position on the 2013 Netflix series orange is the new black where she met actor Samira Wylie and that changed her mind on a few things in Laurens words as we started to shape our characters and debate fictional Piper's true sexuality that first season we engaged in long discussions about sex gender and our own experiences I eagerly share details of innocent above the waist rotations with girls when I have been younger I'll even excitedly blurted out I would totally s

leep with her about an actress who's auditioned for Alec I went to therapy that night and casually mentioned perhaps I was higher on the Kinsey scale than I previously thought I was nervous about the first love scene I'd written for Alex and Piper I'd loved writing it loved watching a tenderness emerge in the relationship where passion always seemed to be the ruling principle but by that time I was so deep in my own self-doubt that I constantly felt like a fraud as I watched taylor schilling and

laura film the scene one of our producers as it happened to gay woman tapped me on the shoulder she pointed the screen and gave me a thumbs up it was a small gesture my first step towards accepting and quite it was a small gesture but a first step towards feeling accepted and quietly accepting myself in Piper and Alex I found a mouthpiece for my own desires and a glimmer of what my future could look like after lugging around a basket full of shame and guilt for the last year there was a lightne

ss that came of realizing that I could choose to replace my negative framing with honesty and grace I want you to read that unfold because it's so beautiful and I think a lot of people can relate Loren wrote it in 2014 piece titled while writing for orange is the new black I realized I'm gay which also talks about how she had just married her longtime boyfriend and our marriage had to end she fell in love on set with one of the actresses from the show Samira Whaley who plays Proust a Washington

and they had a gorgeous wedding in 2017 it is it's delightful Samira was raised in Washington DC by parents who have been referred to as pillars of the LGBTQ religious community as they're the co-pastor of the Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ the only Baptist Church in DC performing same-sex unions in 2007 she credits the love and support of her then girlfriend later wife Lauren for helping her to be true to herself Samira recently won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Ser

ies for The Handmaid's Tale and today an outspoken advocate for lgbtq+ community but asserts that as important people are able to come out when they're ready and that was taken from her thank you so much for watching this video I'm talking wow that was a lot of energy I hope I grow some cool people to your attention hopefully one or two you may have had about before please do share this video with your friends and litter the comments with more fabulous LGBTQ plus people we should all know about

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