Educator, writer, philosopher and art patron

Actor and singer best known for playing the character Unique Adams on the Fox musical series Glee

Writer and author of The Color Purple, for which she received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Walker coined the term womanist meaning feminist of colour

Co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Movement

Founder of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, one of the most successful dance companies in the world

Actress and singer. She was named "Feminist of the Year" in 2015 by the Ms. Foundation for Women

Fashion journalist, former American editor-at-large of Vogue magazine. He has also served as international editor of the Russian fashion magazine Numéro.

Made history in November 2017 by becoming the first openly transgender black woman elected to public office in the U.S

Political activist, philosopher, academic, and author. She is a professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz

American businesswoman, actress, and transgender rights advocate. Founder and CEO of TransTech Social Enterprises

Model, film producer and vlogger who is best known for their YouTube channel, Tomboyish, in which she explores topics related to being an androgynous person

Rapper and Singer

Writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil rights activist.

Rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer and actress

Lawyer, educator and politician. She was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement

American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights

Most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. Nicknamed the Empress of the Blues

Musician known for her work in the New Orleans genre of hip hop called bounce music. She has been credited with helping popularize the genre

Broadway theatre performer, singer, actor and fashion icon

Actor and producer

Drag queen, comedian, musician, and television personality, known for winning the 8th season of RuPaul's Drag Race

American journalist, commentator, and op-ed columnist for The New York Times

Liberian-American film director, producer, screenwriter, editor and actress

Tobagonian-American actress, author, model, and reality television personality.

Actress

Actor

American television journalist. Lemon is the recipient of an Edward R. Murrow Award and three regional Emmy Awards.

Singer and actor best known for his role as Ricky Evangelista on the television series Pose

Poet and assistant professor of English at St. Bonaventure University in Allegany, New York.

Writer. Harris authored ten consecutive books that made The New York Times Best Seller list