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 Notable People  
 
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

-Edna St. Vincent Millay was a popular, openly bisexual Pulitzer prize winning poet and feminist activist

-LGBT rights activist and founder of The Society For Human RIghts

  • Emma Goldman (1869-1940)

-Emma Goldman was a writer and pollitical activist as well as one of the first people in america to publicly advicate  LGBT rights

  • Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1939)

-A German physician and advocate for LGBT rights who inspired the work of Henry Gerber

  • Elsa Gidlow (1898-1986)

-Wrote On a Grey Thread the whcih may have been the first collection of openly lesbian love poems