Matthew Wayne Shepard was an American student at the University of Wyoming who was fatally attacked near Laramie, Wyoming, on the night of October 6 – October 7, 1998 in what was widely reported by international news media as a savage beating due to his homosexuality. Shepard died from severe head injuries at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, on October 12.

Robyn Ochs (1958-) is a long-time American bisexual rights activist, and the editor of the "Bisexual Resource Guide" and the new anthology Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World. She, a resident of Massachusetts, is a noted professional speaker and workshop leader. Her primary fields of interest are identity and coalition building. Ochs has appeared as an expert on bisexuality on a number of television talk shows, including "Donahue", …

Simon LeVay (born 28 August 1943 in Oxford, England) is a neuroscientist and author known for his studies about brain structures and sexual orientation. He is also the co-author of a textbook on human sexuality and has coauthored books on diverse topics such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and extraterrestrial life.

Barry Winchell was an infantry soldier in the United States Army, whose murder by a fellow soldier, Calvin Glover, became a point of reference in the ongoing debate about the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy enforced by the military regarding sexual orientation.

Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940, in Barnsdall, Oklahoma) is an American singer who made a series of television commercials for Florida orange juice. A member of the Southern Baptist Convention, she is best remembered today for campaigning in the mid-1970s to repeal a local ordinance in Miami, Florida, that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

John Michael Bailey (born 2 July 1957 in Lubbock, Texas) is an American psychology professor, best known for his controversial work on homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexualism. Bailey obtained his B.A. in Mathematics from Washington University in 1979 and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Texas, Austin in 1989, where he studied under behavior genetics researcher Lee Willerman. He became a professor at Northwestern University in 1989.

Michael Cashman (born December 17, 1950 in London) is a former British actor, now a Labour politician. He has been a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands constituency since 1999. As an actor, he is possibly best known for his role as Colin Russell in BBC TV's "EastEnders" - a character famous for being the first man to kiss another man in a soap opera in the UK: he also played Mike Wallace in "The Sandbaggers".

Peaches (born Judit Rusznyák on February 24, 1984) is an actress in pornographic films. Peaches was born in Budapest, Hungary, and her native language is Hungarian. She speaks English and German passably. Early in her career, when she was around the ages of 18-20, she often played the innocent, naïve schoolgirl-type role that is paired with a sexually aggressive character.

Daryl J. Bem is a social psychologist at Cornell University, and the originator of the self-perception theory of attitude change. Bem received a B.A. from Reed College in physics in 1960. He later dropped out of graduate study in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pursue social psychology. He later earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1964. He has also carried out research on psi phenomena (a technical term for "E.S.P."), …

Kurt Freund (17 January, 1914 - 23 October, 1996) was a sexologist famous for his studies of male sexual orientation and male sex offenders using penile plethysmography (PPG).

Brett Mycles (real name Robert Christopher Sager) (December 2, 1977 - February 25, 2007), was a successful muscle and fitness model. He was a featured model for the International Male clothing catalog. As "Brett Mycles" he gained fame as an American male pornographic actor. He starred in several pornographic movies and posed in gay porn magazines. He worked in both gay and straight pornography.

Lorri L. Jean is nationally recognized as one of the most seasoned and effective leaders in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender ("GLBT") civil rights movement. Jean currently serves as CEO of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, the world's largest GLBT organization with an annual budget exceeding $32 million dollars, a staff of over 200, and which serves more than a quarter million people every year.

Hani Miletski (1962 -) is a sexologist, and sex therapist living in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. She specializes as a trainer and supervisor in the field, addiction, and also works within the criminal justice system. Miletski published the first brief overview of mother-son incest research. She shed light on a topic that has suffered societal neglect because of the taboo nature of incest, the widespread denial of all forms of female sexual aggression, …

Joseph Wolpe (1915 - 1997) was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1915, but became an American citizen later in his life. He is best known for developing what is now called systematic desensitization. This treatment developed as a result of his translational research with fearful animals. Systematic desensitization involves the imaginary exposure to a feared stimulus while simultaneously applying relaxation.

Bonnie Leigh McKee (born January 20, 1984) is a singer-songwriter signed to Reprise Records. Accomplished rock music columnist Jaan Uhelszki has said that McKee "elevates post-teen rebellion and broken romance to high art".

Tyria Moore (born August 3, 1962) is an American woman best known for her relationship with serial killer Aileen Wuornos. Moore gained notoriety after Wuornos was arrested and accused of the murders of seven men in Florida. Moore grew up as a Christian in Ohio. Her parents suspected her of being a lesbian, but she had not maintained any known relationships with women before meeting Wuornos. Her parents were disapproving of her sexual orientation, …

Madam Justice Anne Helen Russell (May 22, 1940 -) is a former judge on the Alberta Court of Appeal. Russell was born Anne Helen Lucas in Winnipeg, and studied Law at the University of Alberta. She was appointed to the Provincial Court of Alberta in 1984, to the Court of Queen's Bench in 1992, and to the Court of Appeal in 1994. She is one of the few Alberta judges to have served on all three courts in the province.

Jackie Clune (b. 1967, raised in Essex) is an English female comedy cabaret performer/writer, actress, and broadcaster who has previously done a Karen Carpenter act. She has appeared on popular British comedy trivia shows such as "QI", "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" and "The Staying-in Show" and had a small role in a number of episodes of "EastEnders", …

The younger sister of filmmaker Peter Adair, Nancy Adair was born in New Mexico and raised on the Navajo and Zuni reservations there. She was educated in New York and Washington, DC, and earned her degree at San Francisco State University. Nancy Adair first became aware of her sexuality in 1967, when a lesbian friend invited her to Maud's, a now defunct lesbian bar which at the time was the oldest in San Francisco.

Kimberly Walther (born July 26, 1977) is a well-known supporting cast member of "The Anna Nicole Show" while it aired from 2002 until 2004. Best known as "Kimmie" or simply "Kim", she was Anna Nicole Smith's personal assistant and admirer, joining in on many of the "adventures" that took place on the show. Among the cast, Kim seemed to have a less dramatic, more "down to Earth" attitude.

Fernando Allende (born November 10, 1952) is a Mexican singer, actor producer and director. Allende began singing at the age of seven. By the 1970s, Allende had ventured into Spanish soap operas as well as Photo Soap Operas (magazine soap operas widely produced during the 1970s in many Latin American countries). His matinee idol looks helped Allende become a super star and teen idol across Latin America almost immediately.

Sally Fingerett (born on December 25, 1955 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American folk singer/songwriter. She was a founding member of Four Bitchin' Babes, and is the only founding member who continues to perform and record with the band. Fingerett joined the Chicago folk scene while a student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, inspired by such artists as Steve Goodman and John Prine.

Lorrie Sprecher (born 18 July 1960) is a lesbian feminist author and punk musician. Her debut novel, "Sister Safety Pin", details the life of a 20-something lesbian named Melany as she struggles to come to terms with her sexuality, her lovers, her future, and her place in the changing world of punk rock. Peppered heavily with references to seminal punk bands, the novel follows Melany through a small series of relationships, attaining her undergraduate degree, …

Lucie Leblanc is a politician from Quebec, Canada, and the Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) Member of the National Assembly for the electoral district of Deux-Montagnes. She was the owner of a computer and accountancy company for over 20 years. She served as Councillor from 1998 to 2002 and as Mayor from 2002 to 2005 in Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac.

George M. Sullivan (born c.1922) was Mayor of Anchorage from 1967-1982. His father was Harvey Sullivan, a U.S. District Marshal who had followed the Chilkoot Trail in 1898 to join the Klondike Gold Rush. Harvey Sullivan met the woman who would become George's mother (maiden name Murray) in Valdez, where she was serving as Postmaster. George Sullivan grew up in Valdez. His mother was elected mayor about 1934.

James K. Dressel (1943-1992) was a state representative in the Michigan legislature in the late 1970s and early 1980s. As a pragmatic but conservative Republican and a decorated Vietnam War veteran still active in the Air National Guard, he surprised his constituents in Ottawa County by sponsoring an amendment to the state's Elliot-Larsen civil rights law to prohibit discrimination based on "sexual orientation".