Butler uses she/her and they/them pronouns, but has stated they prefer the latter. Their best known books are Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) and *Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (1993), in which they challenge conventional gender norms and develop their theory of gender performativity.

After Milk sponsored a successful bill in San Francisco banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, both Milk and Mayor George Moscone, who signed the bill into law, were assassinated by a disgruntled former city supervisor, causing him became an icon and a martyr in the gay community.

Feinberg's writing laid the groundwork for much of the terminology and awareness around gender studies, and was instrumental in bringing these issues to a more mainstream audience.

The word "homophobia" was first printed in a discussion Weinberg had with other gay activists in a 1969 issue of "Screw", a pornographic magazine owned by Al Goldstein, who was also Jewish.

Gayle Rubin was raised in a middle-class Jewish home in South Carolina during Jim Crow. She has written that her experiences growing up in the segregated South gave her "an abiding hatred of racism in all its forms and a healthy respect for its tenacity.”

At eighteen, Sprinkle was working at an adult film theater where “Deep Throat” (1972) was playing when it was busted. While appearing in court as a witness, she met director Gerard Damiano and became his mistress for 22 years.

Jennings is an honorary co-founder of the TransKids Purple Rainbow Foundation, which she and her parents founded in 2007 to assist transgender youth. She was born in South Florida to Jewish parents Greg and Jeanette. According to Jeanette, their real last name is “a very Jewish, long last name”.

In 1963, Kameny personally drafted a bill to overturn DC anti-sodomy laws that finally passed in 1993.

He also successfully spearheaded a campaign to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder from the APA’s DSM list.

Spade helped to achieve a major victory for transgender youth in foster care in the "Jean Doe v. Bell" case.

Freedman-Gurspan is a Honduran native raised by Jewish parents in Brookline, Massachussets.

The Institute for Sexual Research was founded in 1919 to explore the science of sexuality, building on Hirschfeld's previous campaigns for science-backed LGBT tolerance. In 1935, the Nazis burned it to the ground and destroyed all its documents.