African-American trans woman, whose life and unsolved murder sparked the beginning of Transgender Day of Remembrance.

American jazz musician and band leader who passed away in 1989, outed at the end of his life when his health necessitated emergency care.

English Grammy award-winning musician and activist.

Chilean-German visual artist who used her non-conforming body as a site for art and transformation.

French Surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer; WWII resistance fighter.

British composer and famed voice on BBC radio.

American activist and publisher of the Transvestia magazine.

Actress, singer, and France's first fully-out trans celebrity.

American gospel singer, faced with difficulties over his career due to segregation, and murdered by his domestic partner.

British Vogue model and trans pioneer, who lost her career when she was outed to the tabloid by a friend.

Danish painter and one of the earliest known recipients of sex-reassignment surgery, but died from complications from a later procedure.

American artist and dollmaker, famous for her contributions to NYC’s downtown art scene in the 1980.

Filipino-American activist, writer and multimedia artist, remembered in part for her poem, Litanies to My Heavenly Brown Body.

Jewish-American gender-fluid singer-songwriter, comedian and activist. Released the first ‘out’ lesbian anthem.