In 1979 Dr. Emery Hetrick and Dr. Damien Martin founded the Hetrick-Martin Institute, a nonprofit organization in New York, originally named the Institute for the Protection of Lesbian and Gay Youth.

In 1967 he became one of the first Americans to speak openly about being gay in the documentary "CBS Reports: The Homosexuals."

Jason Collins is a retired professional American basketball player who played for 13 seasons with the NBA.

Edith "Edie" Windsor was the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case United States v. Windsor, a landmark legal victory for marriage equality.

Elaine Noble served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for two terms starting in 1975, becoming the first-ever openly gay candidate elected to a state office.

Tom Stoddard was a lawyer who helped advance LGBT rights in America. He served as an early executive director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York from 1986 to 1992, where he fought against discrimination in employment, housing, health care and the military.

Edna St. Vincent Millay was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet known for her feminism and social activism.

Dusty Springfield was an English singer and record producer best known for her sultry, soulful sound.

P.L. Travers, author of "Mary Poppins," was born Helen Lyndon Goff on Aug. 9, 1899 in the city of Maryborough, in Queensland, Australia, (not in England, as many assume).

Bill Tilden is considered one of the greatest men's tennis champions in history. He was the No. 1 player in the world for six years, from 1920 to 1925.

When Joseph Israel Lobdell passed away in 1912 at the Binghamton State Hospital, his death went largely unnoticed.

Frances Perkins was the first woman appointed to the U.S. cabinet, serving as U.S. secretary of labor under Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945—longer than anyone else who held the post.