Month: May 2024

SAKIA GUNN — Sakia Gunn was a 15-year-old African American lesbian who was murdered in 2003 in what has been deemed a hate crime in Newark, NJ. In 2008 a documentary was released about Gunn’s murder, titled “Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project.” Gunn’s death sparked outrage from the city’s gay and lesbian community….

DAVID MIXNER — David Benjamin Mixner was an political activist and author. He was best known for his work in anti-war and gay rights advocacy. Mixner played a key role in defeating Proposition 6 in California, which sought to ban gays and lesbians from being schoolteachers. He also organized the Moratorium to End the War…

ABILLY S. JONES-HENNIN  — ABilly S. Jones-Hennin was an LGBT rights activist based in Washington, D.C. Beginning in the late 1970s, Jones-Hennin was active in African-American LGBT organizing, helping to found a number of groups, and acted as the logistics coordinator for the first March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1979. In…

CECILIA GENTILI — Cecilia Gentili was an Argentine American advocate for the rights of transgender people and sex workers. Born in Argentina, she moved to New York City. She held leadership positions at the LGBTQ HIV/AIDS care nonprofits GMHC and APICHA, co-founded a free clinic for sex workers at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, co-founded DecrimNY,…