Rest In Pride - Custom Queer Playing Card Deck

Christine Jorgensen

May 30, 1926 – May 3, 1989

“Nature made a mistake, which I have corrected.” WWII veteran Christine Jorgensen became the first American transgender woman to attain fame forhaving sex reassignment surgery. Her story has influenced many others and helpedredefine gender identity.

Bayard Rustin

March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987

Bayard Rustin was an African American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. Rustin worked with A. Philip Randolph on the March on Washington Movement, in 1941, to press for an end to racial discrimination in employment.

MABEL HAMPTON

May 2, 1902 – October 26, 1989

“I would like all my people to be free in this world, my gay people and my black people.” Mabel Hampton was an American lesbian activist, a dancer during the Harlem Renaissance, and a volunteer for both black and lesbian/gay organisations.

OSCAR WILDE

October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900

“I can resist everything except temptation.” Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s.

HARVEY MILK

May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978

“We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.” Harvey Bernard Milk was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

EDITH WINDSOR

June 20, 1929 – September 12, 2017

Edith "Edie" Windsor was an American LGBT rights activist and a technology manager at IBM. She was the lead plaintiff in the 2013 Supreme Court of the United States case United States v. Windsor, which overturned Section 3 of the Defence of Marriage Act and was considered a landmark legal victory for the same-sex marriage movement in the United States.

Sylvia Rivera

July 2, 1951 – February 19, 2002

“We have to do it because we can no longer stay invisible.” Sylvia Rivera was an American gay liberation and transgender rights activist who was also a noted community worker in New York. Rivera, who identified as a drag queen, participated in demonstrations with the Gay Liberation Front.

TOM OF FINLAND

May 8, 1920 – November 7, 1991

Touko Valio Laaksonen, best known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist known for his stylised highly masculinised homoerotic art, and for his influence on late 20th-century gay culture. He has been called the "most influential creator of gay pornographic images".

Storme DeLarverie

December 24, 1920 – May 24, 2014

Stormé DeLarverie was an American woman known as the butch lesbian whose scuffle with police was, according to Stormé and many eyewitnesses, the spark that ignited the Stonewall uprising, spurring the crowd to action. She was born in New Orleans, to an African American mother and a white father.

MARSHA P. JOHNSON

August 24, 1945 – July 6, 1992

“I may be crazy, but that don't make me wrong.” Also known as Malcolm Michaels Jr., was an American gay liberation activist and self-identified drag queen. Known as an outspoken advocate for gay rights, Johnson was one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising of 1969.

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

August 28, 1825 – July 14, 1895

“I am proud, that I found the courage to deal the initial blow to the hydra of public contempt.” Karl Heinrich Ulrichs was a German lawyer, jurist, journalist, and writer who is regarded today as a pioneer of sexology and the modern gay rights movement. Ulrichs has been described as the "first gay man in world history."

Barbara Gittings

July 31, 1932 – February 18, 2007

Barbara Gittings was a prominent American activist for LGBT equality. She was a part of the movement to get the American Psychiatric Association to drop homosexuality as a mental illness in 1972. Her self-described life mission was to tear away the "shroud of invisibility" related to homosexuality, which had theretofore been associated with crime and mental illness.

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