50 Queers Who Changed the World: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Icons by Dan Jones, Michele Rosenthal

Pride 2019 read the 1st,
My annual PRIDE reading has begun. I aim to become the best possible ally possible so for Pride Month I read nonfiction and fiction by and about LGBTQ people and events important to the movement. I started 2 days early this year because of the timing of finishing a book and not wanting to go a couple of days without reading anything and not wanting to start something and pause for a month.

My plan was to start with this one and it is a quick read, less than an hour if I had been able to sit and read it before I had work and some other stuff to do today.

The portraits are wonderful!!!

The list of 50 is a great list, I learned about some people I didn't know about at all or didn't know they had a connection to the LGBTQ community or activism.


I couldn't decide if I should give you a few of the names or the list and I started both ways but realized when I tried to only name a few I was having a hard time choosing so here is the list:

1. Freddie Mercury
2. Alison Bechdel
3. Christopher Isherwood
4. Radclyffe Hall
5. Gladys Bentley
6. kd lang
7. Camille Paglia
8. Keith Haring
9. Barbara Gittings
10. RuPaul
11. Chavela Vargas
12. Rock Hudson
13. James Baldwin
14. Lili Elbe
15. Quentin Crisp
16. Gertrude Stein
17. Harvey Milk 
18. Patricia Highsmith
19. Peter Tatchell
20. Sylvia Rivera
21. Justin Vivian Bond
22. Virginia Wolf
23. George Takei
24. Jake Miller
25. Sally Ride
26. Andy Warhol
27. Billie Holiday
28. Dan Savage
29. Audre Lorde
30. Sandra Bernhard
31. Essex Hemphill
32. Candy Darling
33. Oscar Wilde
34. Lily Tomlin
35. Alan Turing
36. Michael Dillon
37. Madonna
38. Rachel Maddow
39. Larry Kramer
40. Laverne Cox
41. Divine 
42. Stephen Tennant
43. Allen Ginsberg
44. Ellen DeGeneres
45. Marlene Dietrich
46. Armistead Maupin
47. Eleanor Roosevelt 
48. Leigh Bowery
49. Ron Woodroof
50. Frida Kahlo

There was a list at the end of More Queer Heroes with a little blurb. The one I will share with you was my favorite: American lesbian entertainer, activist and French secret agent Josephine Baker. Might as well have said all around badass!!!

A great start to my Pride reads!

(Finished May 30, 2019)