Judy Bowen is a 75-year-old self-proclaimed “Equality-For-All activist.” She lived on Christopher Street at the time of the Stonewall Riots, and she marched with the Gay Activists Alliance in the early Christopher Street Liberation Day Marches. She is currently a member of The Center in Las Vegas, an LGBTQ support organization. She is still active in creating housing for those in need, and fighting against prejudice and hate.

Judy Bowenwiener

Martin Boyce is a native New Yorker and was a regular at the Stonewall Inn. He was present during the nights of the Stonewall Riots. He has since become an LGBTQ activist and storyteller.

Merrie Cherry is a driving force in the Brooklyn drag scene. Cherry hosts the monthly drag competition DragNET at the Metropolitan Bar in Williamsburg, and she is a firm fixture at Bushwig, Brooklyn’s premier drag and performance festival. Cherry’s short documentary “Queen of Hearts”, has made its way through the film festival circuit including, New Fest and Transformations Film Festival Berlin to name a few.

Merrie Cherry

Zackary Drucker is a transgender artist. She is a producer of “Transparent” and has shown her work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MOMA PS1, and Hammer Museum, among many others.

Zackary Drucker

Bianey Garcia is a community organizer at Make the Road New York, a non-profit organization providing services and advocacy for Latinx and working class communities in Queens. An undocumented, trans woman of color, she organized the first Trans Latina March in New York City.

Bianey Garcia

Twiggy has collaborated with artists, filmmakers, academics and policymakers to increase visibility of queer and trans people of color in both creative and sociopolitical spaces. In their current role as Program Director at the True Colors Fund, Twiggy leads the Youth Collaboration program area and produced the True Impact Summit, aimed at not only elevating youth voices but also creating space for partnerships with young adults to lead the movement to end youth homelessness. Twiggy co-wrote the Sundance-selected documentary KIKI, sits on the Board of Directors for Doc Society, and serves as runway choreographer on the FX series “POSE,” by Ryan Murphy. Her mission is to elevate the authentic representation of the House/Ballroom community worldwide.

Twiggy

Karla Jay was an early member of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and Radicalesbians, a group that created the famous Lavender Menace action, a group that formed to protest the exclusion of lesbians from mainstream Women’s Liberation. She is now an author and professor emerita at Pace University.

Agosto Machado is a Chinese-Spanish-Filipino performance artist and “pre-Stonewall street queen.” He/she was a contemporary of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. He/she was part of the rise of the underground theater and film movements of the 60s. His/her first time on stage was during Jack Smith’s (father of performance art) productions. He/she has a long time association with La Mama Theatre.

Chella Man is a Deaf, genderqueer artist currently transitioning on testosterone. He is studying virtual reality programming at The New School in New York City, while sharing his stories of transitioning on his YouTube channel. His main focus is to educate others on issues regarding being queer and disabled within a safe space.

Chella Man

Pidgeon Pagonis is an intersex American activist, writer, artist, and consultant. They are an advocate for intersex human rights and against non-consensual intersex medical interventions. In 2015, Pagonis created the hashtag campaign #intersexstories for Intersex Awareness Day.

Pidgeon Pagonis

Achebe Betty Powell was a founding member of Salsa Soul Sisters and the Astraea Foundation, and was a key player in the Gay Academic Union, the National Black Feminist Organization, and the National Gay Task Force. Powell has been a professor at Brooklyn College, a social worker, and an employee at Kitchen Table Press.

Wallace is a native New Yorker, a lifelong teacher and a Vietnam War veteran. He was a regular at the Stonewall Inn, although he wasn’t present during the riots. He worked for New York City’s Commission on Human Rights for 18 years, where he helped pass the gay rights bill in 1986.

Jay Toole is a 71 year-old butch-identified lesbian who battled addiction for 37 years, during which time she was homeless for over 25 years, and often lived on and under the streets of NYC and in the NYC shelters. Jay is a co-founder of Queers for Economic Justice (QEJ), a progressive non-profit organization committed to promoting economic justice in a context of sexual and gender liberation.

Jay Toole

Sean Saifa Wall is an advocate for intersex rights, a collage artist and researcher. He is the former board president of InterAct, a legal advocacy organization protecting intersex youth. His mixed-media art celebrates black women and critiques racial oppression.

Sean Saifa Wall