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“Hannah Gadsby has been a comedian for more than a decade but it was 2018 when the world took notice when their groundbreaking comedy special launched on Netflix and stopped the comedy world in its tracks.”

Barbara Deming

American writer and activist for peace, human rights, and related causes.

Laurel Hester

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.

Dr Nancy Cárdenas

Mexican playwright, essayist, and poet

Ana María Simo

Cofounded by Cuban activist and playwright Ana Maria Simo in 1992, the Lesbian Avengers used direct-action tactics (nonviolent demonstrations such as marches and kiss-ins) to increase lesbian visibility.