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National LGBTQ Wall of Honor

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The National LGBTQ Wall of Honor is a memorial wall in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, dedicated to LGBTQ "pioneers, trailblazers, and heroes".[1] Located inside the Stonewall Inn, the wall is part of the Stonewall National Monument, the first U.S. National Monument dedicated to the country's LGBTQ rights and history. The first fifty inductees were unveiled June 27, 2019, as a part of events marking the 50th anniversary of Stonewall.[2][3] Five honorees are added annually.[1]

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In February 2019, the National LGBTQ Task Force and Imperial Court System announced their plans for the Wall of Honor.[4] The monument committee accepted nominations to honor "the lives of LGBTQ trailblazers, pioneers and s/heroes who have passed", and have had a positive impact on LGBTQ civil rights.[3]

The nominations are administered by a Board of Governors, consisting of eighteen LGBTQ leaders including transgender activist Marsha Botzer,[5] Black LGBTQ activist Mandy Carter, LGBTQ youth advocate Wilson Cruz, LGBTQ human rights activist Stuart Milk, and founder of the Metropolitan Community Church Troy Perry.[3]

Honorees

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The first fifty honorees were announced in June 2019.[2][a][6] In June 2020, the first additional five were announced: Lorena Borjas, Larry Kramer, Phyllis Lyon, Sean Sasser, and Aimee Stephens.[7]

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  • Michael Callen was a gay singer, songwriter, composer, author, and influential early AIDS activist.
  • Tyler Clementi was an 18-year-old Rutgers University student who was cyberbullied into suicide by homophobic classmates. He was added to the wall in 2022.[9]
  • Charles H. Cochrane was the first openly gay New York City policeman. He came out publicly in 1981 during a hearing on whether to ban discrimination against gay people. The bill never passed, but Cochrane was hailed for his bravery, and later formed the Gay Officers Action League.[13] He was added to the Wall in 2024.[11]

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Audre Lorde (left) with writers Meridel Le Sueur (middle) and Adrienne Rich (right) at a writing workshop in Austin, Texas, 1980

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  • Pat Parker was a Black lesbian feminist poet and activist.[29][30] Her poetry addressed her tough childhood growing up in poverty, dealing with sexual assault, and the murder of a sister, along with many issues facing lesbians and Black women in contemporary culture.[31] After two divorces she came out as a lesbian, "embracing her sexuality" she was liberated and "knew no limits when it came to expressing the innermost parts of herself".[31] Parker participated in political activism and had early involvement with the Black Panther Party, Black Women's Revolutionary Council and formed the Women's Press Collective.[32] She participated in many forms of activism especially regarding gay and lesbian communities, domestic violence, and rights of people of color.[33] After she became too ill to perform, other poets and musicians continued to perform her work at music and arts festivals, "Movement in Black" being particularly popular.
  • Jimmy Pisano was a gay man who purchased the original Stonewall Inn location and reopened it as a bar called "Stonewall" in 1990. It never turned a profit, but Pisano and his then-partner kept the bar open until Pisano's death from AIDS complications in 1994.[34] He was added to the wall in 2021.[12]
  • Achebe Betty Powell was the first Black lesbian to serve on the board of directors of the National Gay Task Force, and a founding member of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. She attended the historic meeting of lesbian and gay leaders at the Carter White House in 1977, and worked with several feminist organizations around the world. She was added to the wall in 2023.[17]

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Bayard Rustin, organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, at a news briefing in Washington, D.C., on August 27, 1963
Bayard Rustin, organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, at a news briefing in Washington, D.C., on August 27, 1963

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Edie Windsor in the Washington, D.C. Pride Parade, 2017
Edith "Edie" Windsor in the D.C. Pride Parade

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  • Pedro Zamora was an openly gay Cuban-American AIDS educator and television personality who appeared on MTV's reality television series The Real World: San Francisco as one of the first openly gay men and person with AIDS to be portrayed in popular media. He brought international attention to HIV/AIDS and gave one of the first views into the daily lives of gay men. His interactions with his housemates exposed the homophobia and prejudices faced by people with AIDS. Zamora's romantic relationship with Sean Sasser was nominated by MTV viewers for the "Favorite Love Story" award.[45] The broadcast of their commitment ceremony, in which they exchanged vows, was the first such same-sex ceremony in television history, and is considered a landmark in the history of the medium.[46][47]

Sources

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  1. ^ Eric Rofes was omitted from the initial list but is listed on the Task Force's website.
  • Shilts, Randy (1982). The mayor of Castro Street : the life & times of Harvey Milk (First ed.). New York. ISBN 0312523300. OCLC 7948538.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

See also

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