Edith Windsor 1929-2017 Windsor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James and Celia Schlain, a Russian Jewish immigrant family. She was the youngest of three children. Throughout school, she dated boys her age, but said later she recalls having crushes on girls. During college, she met Saul Windsor. Their relationship ended when Windsor fell in [...]
Pedro Zamora, 1972-1994
Pedro Zamora 1972-1994 Pedro Pablo Zamora was a Cuban-American AIDS educator and television personality. As one of the first openly gay men with AIDS to be portrayed in popular media, Zamora brought international attention to HIV/AIDS and LGBT issues and prejudices through his appearance on MTV’s reality television series, “The Real World: San Francisco.” Zamora’s [...]