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<figure class="wp-block-image"><img  src="https://cdn.nba.com/teams/legacy/www.nba.com/blazers/sites/blazers/files/baldwin.jpg" alt="James Baldwin" class="wp-image-1014495"/><figcaption>James Baldwin (1924-1987) &#8211; 

Best described as a writer and activist, Baldwin is famed for educating others around the globe on Black and queer identity. While exploring the same identities in his writings.</figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-image"><img  src="https://cdn.nba.com/teams/legacy/www.nba.com/blazers/sites/blazers/files/bentley.jpg" alt="Gladys Bentley" class="wp-image-1014496"/><figcaption>Gladys Bentley (1907-1960) &#8211; 

A gender-bending blues performer considered &#8220;Harlem&#8217;s most famous lesbian&#8221; during the Harlem Renaissance.</figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-image"><img  src="https://cdn.nba.com/teams/legacy/www.nba.com/blazers/sites/blazers/files/delarverie.jpg" alt="Stormé DeLarverie" class="wp-image-1014497"/><figcaption>Stormé DeLarverie (1920-2014) &#8211; 

A circus performer, thespian, drag king, bar bouncer, volunteer and activist, and was known as the &#8220;guardian of the lesbians in the Village.&#8221;</figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-image"><img  src="https://cdn.nba.com/teams/legacy/www.nba.com/blazers/sites/blazers/files/johnson_0.jpg" alt="Marsha P. Johnson" class="wp-image-1014498"/><figcaption>Marsha P. Johnson (1945-1992) &#8211; 

A legendary advocate for transgender rights, reported to be one of the central figures in the Stonewall uprising of 1969. Johnson also helped form a political organization, Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries, in Manhattan that provided housing and support to homeless youth and sex workers.</figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-image"><img  src="https://cdn.nba.com/teams/legacy/www.nba.com/blazers/sites/blazers/files/lorde.jpg" alt="Audre Lorde" class="wp-image-1014499"/><figcaption>Audre Lorde (1934-1992) &#8211; 

Self described as a &#8220;black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,&#8221; Lorde left profound contributions in the fields of feminist theory, critical race study and queer theory through her teachings and writing.</figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-image"><img  src="https://cdn.nba.com/teams/legacy/www.nba.com/blazers/sites/blazers/files/ninja.jpg" alt="Willi Ninja" class="wp-image-1014500"/><figcaption>Willi Ninja (1961-2006) &#8211; 

A dancer and choreographer, Ninja is hailed as the &#8220;Grandfather of Vogue,&#8221; a dance style that is immortalized in pop culture to this day.</figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-image"><img  src="https://cdn.nba.com/teams/legacy/www.nba.com/blazers/sites/blazers/files/rustin.jpg" alt="Bayard Rustin" class="wp-image-1014501"/><figcaption>Bayard Rustin (1912-1987) &#8211; 

Rustin was a key adviser to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. credited for organizing the 1963 March on Washington. He was also posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.</figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-image"><img  src="https://cdn.nba.com/teams/legacy/www.nba.com/blazers/sites/blazers/files/eckstein2_0.jpg" alt="Ernestine Eckstein" class="wp-image-1014502"/><figcaption>Ernestine Eckstein (1941-1992) &#8211; 

Leader of the the New York chapter of Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian civil and political rights organization in the United States. She believed that the fight for Civil Rights and LGBTQ rights were intrinsically linked.</figcaption></figure>

Some Of The Historical Black Pioneers Of The LGBTQ2SIA+ Movement

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