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Sue Sanders

British activist Sue Sanders is an educator and feminist activist for LGBTQIA+ and disability rights.

Jayne Rowse

In 2012, April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse filed a lawsuit challenging Michigan’s ban that prevented same-sex couples like DeBoer and Rowse from jointly adopting their children.

A New Jersey police lieutenant, Hester died in 2006 at age 49 after a prolonged battle with lung cancer. At the same time, she had been battling another force: the Ocean County freeholders, who held Hester’s pension in their hands, and were refusing to allow her domestic partner, Stacie Andree, to receive those benefits when Hester inevitably succumbed to her cancer.

Edith Windsor

Edie Windsor was in her 80s when she sued the U.S. government. Her wife, Thea Spyer, died in 2009. The following year, Windsor received a $363,000 tax bill—estate taxes that, had the government recognized their marriage, would have been nonexistent.

April DeBoer

In 2012, April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse filed a lawsuit challenging Michigan’s ban that prevented same-sex couples like DeBoer and Rowse from jointly adopting their children.

Dr Nancy Cárdenas

Mexican playwright, essayist, and poet

Julia Nicol

Julia Nicol worked actively as an anti-apartheid activist in the late 1980s and early 90s, particularly concerned with the anti-discrimination rights for LGBTQIA+ people.