2025 Icons

  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

San Francisco

Roberta Achtenberg
Government Official       
2012 Icon
Tom Ammiano
Workplace Pioneer
2017 Icon
Gwen Araujo
Transgender Hero 
2013 Icon
Gilbert Baker
Rainbow Flag Designer
2018 Icon
Selisse Berry
Workplace Pioneer
2017 Icon
Bernice Bing
Artist
2014 Icon
Mark Bingham
9/11 hero 
2008 Icon
Allan Bérubé
Historian
2014 Icon
Patrick Califia
Author
2013 Icon
Margaret Cho
Entertainer
2014 Icon
Ramon Cortines
Educator
2012 Icon
Felicia Elizondo
Transgender Activist & Author
2020 Icon
Rob Epstein
Oscar-Winning Director
2020 Icon
Michel Foucault
Philosopher
2009 Icon
Cleve Jones
Founder of NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt
2008 Icon
Janis Joplin
Rock Star
2021 Icon
Kate Kendell
Attorney
2009 Icon
Jim Kepner
Journalist and LGBT Historian
2016 Icon
Rachel Maddow
Commentator
2009 Icon
Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon
Founders of the first lesbian organization and the first same-sex couple married in California
2008 Icon
Johnny Mathis
Singer and Songwriter
2017 Icon
Armistead Maupin
Author
2014 Icon
Harvey Milk
Politician
2006 Icon
Julia Morgan
Architect
2019 Icon
José Sarria
Activist
2013 Icon
Lowell Selvin
Entrepreneur
2006 Icon
Randy Shilts
Author and AIDS journalist
2008 Icon
Billy Sipple
Hero
2007 Icon
Lou Sullivan
Transgender Activist     
2014 Icon
Sylvester
Singer and Songwriter
2014 Icon
Arthur Tress
Fine-Art Photographer
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Jose Antonio Vargas
Immigration Activist 
2016 Icon
B.D. Wong
Actor and filmmaker
2009 Icon
Pedro Zamora
AIDS Activist
2011 Icon
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