executive producers of three LGBT documentary films, organizer of the LGBT 50th Anniversary Celebration at Independence Hall on 4 July 2015, executive producer of the off-Broadway play 217 Boxes of Dr. Henry Anonymous and overseer of the largest number of government approved, nationally significant LGBT Historic Markers Audre Lorde (born 1934), A self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” Audre Lorde dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia. Lorde was born in New York City to West Indian immigrant parents. Courtney Love (born 1964), a musician and singer, has advocated for LGBT rights and acceptance since the beginning of her career in the early 1990s Scott Long (born 1963), Executive Director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch. Phyllis Lyon (1924–2020), lesbian activist who co-founded the Daughters of Bilitis with longtime partner Del Martin Del Martin (1921–2008), lesbian activist who co-founded the Daughters of Bilitis with longtime partner Phyllis Lyon Tim McFeeley, former executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, 1989–1995 Harvey Milk (1930–1978), openly gay city supervisor of San Francisco, California who was assassinated (along with mayor George Moscone) in 1978 by Dan White David Nelson (born 1962), founder of Gay and Lesbian Utah Democrats, and Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah. Gavin Newsom (born 1967), heterosexual mayor of San Francisco, California, who directed his office to issue wedding licenses to same-sex couples in February 2004, although this process was halted the next month by the California Supreme Court Jack Nichols (1937–2005), journalist, writer, activist and co-founder of the Mattachine Society of Washington D.C. with Frank Kameny Tyler Oakley (born 1989, Jackson, Michigan) is an openly gay American LGBTQ+ rights activist, YouTuber, and author; he also focuses on social issues such as health care, education, and suicide prevention Romaine Patterson (1978–), lesbian talk show host and founder of Angel Action Troy Perry (1940–), founder of UFMCC, an international Protestant Christian denomination with a specific outreach to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families and communities Charles Pitts (1941–2015), co-founder of the Gay Liberation Front in New York City and host of influential early gay radio programs on WBAI Sylvia Rivera (1951–2002), gay liberation and trans activist, founding member of the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance Brandan Robertson (1992–). LGBT rights activist in evangelical communities, writer on intersection of faith and LGBT