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  1. Giorgio Armani
  2. Gabriel Attal
  3. Alvin Baltrop
  4. Frieda Belinfante
  5. Michael Bennett
  6. Rachel Crandall-Crocker
  7. Barry Diller
  8. Ernestine Eckstein
  9. Laïla El-Métoui
  10. Edward Enninful
  11. Andrea Gibson
  12. Marsden Hartley
  13. Muhsin Hendricks
  14. Patricia Highsmith
  15. Robert Joffrey
  16. Julie Johnson
  17. Lani Ka’ahumanu
  18. King James I
  19. Calvin Klein
  20. Abraham Lincoln
  21. Chris Pappas
  22. Pauline Park
  23. Paul Rudolph
  24. Amber Ruffin
  25. St. Vincent
  26. Jessica Stern
  27. Charles Sumner
  28. Jewel Thais-Williams
  29. Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
  30. Alok Vaid-Menon
  31. Edmund White

Miriam Ben-Shalom
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Bibliography

Estes, Steve. Ask & Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out, University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

“Frontlines: Military Gays Fight Back,” Mother Jones (June 1976).

Ocamb, Karen. “Former Sgt. Miriam Ben-Shalom on the Personal Impact of Serving in Silence,” Frontiers (November 22, 2010).

Website

Miriam Ben-Shalom Collection, Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.