The AIDS Crisis ravaged the LGBTQ+ community for decades, and the government did little to help.

Alan Turing was an openly gay British mathematician considered to be the father of the modern-day computer.

It wasn't until 1973 that homosexuality was declassified as a mental illness by the American Psychiatric Association.

Willi Ninja was an African American dancer and choreographer known as the "Godfather of Voguing."

Bayard Rustin was an American civil rights activist who fought alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

It wasn't until 2021 that the LGBTQ+ community was given federal protections against employment discrimination.