A list of notable LGBT rights activists who have worked to advance LGBT rights by political change, legal action or publication. Ordered by country, alphabetically. Argentina Claudia Castrosín Verdú, she and her partner were the first lesbian couple to form a civil union in Latin America; vice president of FALGBT María Rachid, politician and LGBT rights activist, partner of Claudia Castrosín Verdú Diana Sacayán, board member of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association and a leader of the Antidiscrimination Liberation Movement Australia Ron Austin Peter Bonsall-Boone Bob Brown Lyle Chan, member of ACT UP Rodney Croome Peter De Waal Craig Johnston (politician) Julie McCrossin Michael Kirby (judge), Justice of the High Court of Australia Austria Helmut Graupner Gery Keszler, organiser of the Life Ball Alex Jürgen Ulrike Lunacek Bangladesh Xulhaz Mannan Belize Derricia Castillo-Salazar Caleb Orozco Brazil Luiz Mott Jean Wyllys Toni Reis João Silvério Trevisan Míriam Martinho Bulgaria Desislava Petrova Cameroon Joel Gustave Nana Ngongang Alice Nkom Canada Alec Butler Michelle Douglas Jim Egan Brent Hawkes George Hislop K.d. Lang Irshad Manji Christin Milloy Arsham Parsi Svend Robinson Bill Siksay Clara Sorrenti Jenna Talackova Mark Tewksbury Chile Luis Larraín Pedro Lemebel Jaime Parada Pablo Salvador China, People's Republic of Li Tingting, LGBT rights and feminist activist Li Yinhe Cui Zi'en Xian, LGBT rights activist and founder of Beijing-based lesbian organization Tongyu Colombia Virgilio Barco Isakson (b. 1965) Armando Benedetti Villaneda (b. 1962) Blanca Inés Durán Hernández Angélica Lozano Correa Tatiana de la Tierra Juliana Delgado Lopera Denmark Axel Axgil Lili Elbe (b. 1882 as Einar Magnus Andreas Wegner) Egypt Ismail Mohamed (activist) Maher Sabry Omar Sharif Jr. Sarah Hegazi Shrouk El-Attar Estonia Lisette Kampus Peeter Rebane Finland Sakris Kupila Sofi Oksanen France Camille Cabral Pierre Guénin Christiane Taubira Lilian Thuram, former French soccer player Rama Yade, former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Human Rights of France Germany Adolf Brand Manfred Bruns Volker Beck Benedict Friedlaender Magnus Hirschfeld Karl Heinrich Ulrichs India Anand Grover Menaka Guruswamy Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Anjali Gopalan Gopi Shankar Madurai Manvendra Singh Gohil Harish Iyer Ashok Row Kavi Sridhar Rangayan Rose Venkatesan Indonesia Dede Oetomo Iran Alireza Shojaian Arsham Parsi Elham Malekpoor Shadi Amin Iraq Amir Ashour Zhiar Ali Israel Imri Kalmann, former co-chairperson of the Israeli LGBT Association Yair Qedar, founder of Israel's first LGBT newspaper Apollo Braun, the first man who waved the pride flag inside of Sheikh Zayed