Alan Turing

Alan Turing was a brilliant English mathematician and logician. During World War II, he led the team at Bletchley Park that cracked the German Enigma code, an achievement that historians estimate shortened the war by at least two years and saved over 14 million lives...

Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin was a visionary strategist and a key leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. A close advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rustin taught King the techniques of nonviolent resistance that he had studied in India. He was the primary organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom....

Edith Windsor

Edith "Edie" Windsor was an American LGBTQ+ rights activist and a technology pioneer at IBM. After the death of her partner of 44 years, Thea Spyer, Windsor was forced to pay massive estate taxes that a surviving spouse in a heterosexual marriage would not have to pay, because the U.S. government did not recognize their marriage.....

Pai Hsien-yung

Pai Hsien-yung is one of the most celebrated figures in contemporary Chinese literature. Born in 1937, he co-founded the influential Modern Literature magazine. His most significant contribution to the LGBTQ+ canon is his 1983 novel Crystal Boys, which provides a raw and compassionate look at the lives of gay youth in Taipei's New Park.....

Leslie Cheung

Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing was a legendary Hong Kong singer and actor, widely considered one of the founding fathers of Cantopop. Throughout his 26-year career, he starred in masterpieces such as ...

Qiu Miaojin

Qiu Miaojin was a pioneering Taiwanese lesbian novelist and a central figure in modern Chinese-language queer literature. Her masterpieces, Notes of a Crocodile and Last Letters from Montmartre, captured the psychological intensity and existential struggle of lesbian identity in post-martial law Taiwan. ...