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  1. Peter Anastos
  2. Walter Arlen
  3. Becca Balint
  4. Samuel Barber
  5. Andy Cohen
  6. John D’Emilio
  7. Colman Domingo
  8. Billie Eilish
  9. Cecilia Gentili
  10. Jeffrey Gibson
  11. Nikki Giovanni
  12. Lily Gladstone
  13. Mel Heifetz
  14. Sir Lady Java
  15. Ella Jenkins
  16. ABilly Jones-Hennin
  17. Ellsworth Kelly
  18. Karl Lagerfeld
  19. Troy Masters
  20. Sarah McBride
  21. T. J. Osborne
  22. Ted Osius
  23. Ann Philbin
  24. Chappell Roan
  25. Harper Steele
  26. Breanna Stewart
  27. Arthur Tress
  28. Cy Twombly
  29. Ocean Vuong
  30. Abby Wambach
  31. Lanford Wilson

Feminist

Jane Addams
Activist
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Susan B. Anthony
American Suffragist
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Virginia Apuzzo
Pioneering Activist
2016 Icon
Natalie Barney
Author
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Joan Biren
Documentarian
2013 Icon
Ivy Bottini
Women’s and LGBT Activist
2014 Icon
Charlotte Bunch
Scholar and Activist
2017 Icon
Patrick Califia
Author
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Margaret Cho
Entertainer
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Meg Christian
Feminist Singer-Songwriter
2018 Icon
Midge Costanza
Presidential Adviser
2016 Icon
Nancy Cárdenas
Mexican Writer & Activist
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Jeanne Córdova
Activist and Author
2016 Icon
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
19th Century Orator
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Ani DiFranco
Grammy-Winning Singer
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Elana Dykewomon
Author & Activist
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Lillian Faderman
LGBT Historian
2019 Icon
Roxane Gay
Best-Selling Author
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Jewelle Gomez
Novelist
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Lesley Gore
Singer & Composer
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Bell Hooks
Author & Feminist
2022 Icon
Brenda Howard
Activist
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June Jordan
Poet
2014 Icon
Frances Kellor
Social Activist
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Kay Lahusen
Gay Pioneer          
2016 Icon
Steve Letsike
South African Activist
2018 Icon
Anne Lister
Pioneering Feminist
2019 Icon
Irshad Manji
Muslim Reformist
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Pauli Murray
Attorney and Civil Rights Activist
2009 Icon
Holly Near
Singer/Songwriter  
2012 Icon
Ann Northrop
Pioneering AIDS Activist & Journalist
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Jean O’Leary
Pioneering Activist
2016 Icon
Elliot Page
Actor and Director
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Pat Parker
Poet & Activist
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Johnnie Phelps
Decorated WWII Veteran
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Sally Ride
National Hero
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Ethel Smyth
Composer & Suffragette
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poet/Performer
2015 Icon
Lillian Wald
Community Nursing Founder
2019 Icon
Mary Edwards Walker
Surgeon
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Alice Walker
Author and Feminist
2008 Icon
Edith Wharton
Pulitzer-Winning Novelist
2019 Icon
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