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  1. Marin Alsop
  2. Chasten Buttigieg
  3. Madeline Davis
  4. Elana Dykewomon
  5. Tessa Ganserer
  6. Roxane Gay
  7. Lesley Gore
  8. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
  9. Brittney Griner
  10. Maura Healey
  11. Jazmine Hughes
  12. Eddie Izzard
  13. Michael R. Jackson
  14. Leslie Jordan
  15. Tina Kotek
  16. Marijane Meaker
  17. Scott Minerd
  18. Ryan Murphy
  19. Carl Nassib
  20. Stu Rasmussen
  21. Allen Schindler Jr.
  22. Charles Silverstein
  23. Andrew Solomon
  24. Michael Stipe
  25. Kara Swisher
  26. André Leon Talley
  27. Doris Taylor
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  29. Mpho Tutu van Furth
  30. Samira Wiley
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National Book Award

W.H. Auden
Poet & Activist
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Martin Duberman
Historian
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Allen Ginsberg
Poet and activist
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Masha Gessen
Russian-American journalist
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James Merrill
Pulitzer-Winning Poet
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Mary Oliver
Pulitzer-Winning Poet
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Adrienne Rich
Poet
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Andrew Solomon
Award-Winning Writer
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Gore Vidal
Author/Commentator
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Alice Walker
Author and Feminist
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