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100
Norwegian indie-pop singer-songwriter.
She started writing songs and playing the guitar when she was 14. All of this happened in her bedroom, which she still does today.
Her first song, “I wanna be your girlfriend,” which came out in 2016, immediately gave away that she’s a lesbian music artist, and she doesn’t shy away from this at all.
Girl in Red
100
The Wisconsin senator first shattered glass ceilings in 1998, when she became the first openly LGBTQ person (and out lesbian) elected to Congress, and again in 2012, when she became America's first openly gay senator.
Tammy Baldwin
100
More known for her acting nowadays, but back in the day she was one of the biggest rappers in the game, with albums like All Hail the Queen and Black Reign, and hit singles like "Ladies First," and the Grammy winning "U.N.I.T.Y."
Queen Latifah
100
She was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople.[4] She significantly reduced death rates by improving hygiene and living standards.
Florence Nightingale
100
A self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” She dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia.
Audre Lorde
200
You might know her as a Lesbian pop-star.
You might know her from Lemonade Mouth
Or you might know her as 'Lesbian Jesus'
Hayley Kiyoko
200
The Oregon governor became the America's first openly bisexual governor in 2015, when she ascended into the role. She won an election for the spot in her own right in 2016, and emerged victorious in her bid for re-election in 2018, too. (Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado, who is also openly LGBTQ, joined Brown as the nation's second out governor in that same election cycle.)
Kate Brown
200
One of the hottest MCs in the game. She brokout with her debut single "Ooouuu," which was a top 20 hit and got her nominated for BET and MTV awards. She's consitantly put out fire songs since then, and was on the cover of Out Magazine in 2019.
Young M.A.
200
Eleanor Roosevelt
200
She lived at Mytilene on the island of Lesvos in the north Aegean , the cultural center of the 7th century BC. Erotic love plays an important role in her poetry. According to current estimates, only about seven percent of her entire work has survived
Sappho
300
Some of you have probably seen her in the sixth season of America’s Got Talent, where the group finished in fourth place.
In the following years, she was homeless and went through a rough time. She stole iPhones to sell to get by.
Her life got completely turned around when she dropped her first solo track on SoundCloud named “ANTISUMMERLUV.” And Nick Cannon bought her an apartment in Los Angeles and studio time.
In 2017, she dropped “Honey,” a song about being in a relationship with another woman, after she came out as queer.
Kehlani
300
Transgender Americans nationwide rejoiced when she scored a seat on Virginia's state legislature, making her the first trans person to serve as a state legislator in U.S. history. The former journalist and Virginia native received endorsements from HRC and former Vice President (/current Democratic White House hopeful) Joe Biden.
Danica Roem
300
After viral success with the song "Mooo!," she has become one of the biggest rappers in America over the last two years. Her song "Say So" has earned two Grammy nominations, and other bops like "Kiss Me More" ft. SZA and "Best Friend" with Saweetie have proven she's a major skill.
Doja Cat
300
Astronaut _________ wore this in-flight suit during the six-day STS-7 mission aboard Space Shuttle Challenger in June 1983, when she became the first American woman to travel in space. Later in life, Dr. ____, also an engineer and physicist, became director of the California Space Institute and a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego.
Dr. Sally Ride
300
While she was extremely prolific as a poet and regularly enclosed poems in letters to friends, she was not publicly recognized during her lifetime. The first volume... more
... of her work was published posthumously in 1890. Upon her death, her younger sister, discovered forty handbound volumes of nearly 1,800 handwritten poems. She assembled these booklets by folding and sewing five or six sheets of stationery paper and copying what seem to be final versions of poems. The poems were initially unbound and published according to the aesthetics of her many early editors, who removed her annotations. The Manuscript Books of __________ (1981) is the only volume that keeps the order intact.
Emily Dickinson
400
She rose to fame not so long ago. A music label wanted to sign her at eleven years old. But since King Princess didn’t have a clear definition of her music, she didn’t sign.
In 2018, she found that definition when the lesbian singer released her song “1950,” a tribute to the lesbian book The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, the LGBTQ+ community, and queer love.
King Princess
400
The veteran Arizona politician and Democratic senator made major strides for bisexual Americans in 2018, when she became the first openly LGBTQ senator from her state, and the first out bisexual elected to the U.S. Senate. (She's also served us many show-stopping lewks, including the 'fit she sported for her swearing-in ceremony, for which we are also grateful.
Kyrsten Sinema
400
She mashes together hip hop, R&B, disco, pop, and more on their latest EP, Most Improved Award. With songs like "Mean Girls," "Reborn," and "No Shade," the EP is one of our favorites of the year and we can't wait to see what Tiger does next.
Tiger Goods
400
She was a co-founder of the Ladies Professional Golf Association, set world records in javelin throw and eighty-meter hurdles in the Olympics. Although she married Greek professional wrestler George Zaharias in 1908, by the 1950’s she’d moved on to a relationship with golfer Betty Dodd
Babe Didrickson
400
She was a high-profile lesbian port in the Paris during La Belle Époque when the arts the arts flourished. Her major works are Cendres et poussières ("Ashes and Dust."
Renee Vivien
500
The openly gay female singer was a member of the alternative hip-hop collective Odd Future, making her the only woman and openly gay member of the group. In 2016, she announced her departure from Off Future, and in 2017 she released her first solo single, ‘All About Me,’ a must-listen!
Syd
500
The out politician and former federal prosecutor broke ground for queer women and Black women when she became the first Black lesbian to serve as the mayor of Chicago in April 2019.
Lori Lightfoot
500
They have been releasing great tracks since 2017, including the paired albums Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Sucks from 2020. She uses both they/them and she/her pronouns and identifies as bisexual.
Princess Nokia
500
Civil rights leader and progressive politician _____________ was outed in her 1996 obituary, when she became the first black woman to be buried in the Texas State Cemetery. She was already the first woman to serve in the Texas House of Representatives, the first post-reconstruction African-American State Senator and the first black woman to keynote the Democratic National Convention.
Barbara Jordan
500
Her graphic novel Juliet Takes a Breath follows a young Puerto Rican lesbian as she comes out to her mother, struggles with her first failed relationship, and moves from the Bronx to Portland, Oregon to complete an internship with the white feminist author she idolizes.
Gabby Rivera