I did this on Facebook last year: one day, one LGBTQ Black figure.

Day 1. Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist and organizer. Key figure in the Civil Rights movement and the March on Washington.

Day 2. Marsha P. Johnson, drag queen, activist for LGBT people and sex workers, known for throwing the first brick at the Stonewall Inn, kickstarting what’s now known as the modern LGBT rights movement.

Day 3. James Baldwin. Prolific author and playwright, and civil rights activist.

Day 4. Billie Holiday, influential jazz and pop singer.

Day 5. LGBT Black Americans. Langston Hughes, writer and poet during the Harlem Renaissance.

Day 6. George Washington Carver, born a slave and later became an agricultural scientist and inventor. Documented to have relationships with women and men.

Day 7. Josephine Baker, dancer, entertainer, civil rights activist and...French Resistance agent.

Day 8. Bessie Smith, blues and soul singer of the 1920 and 1930s.

Day 9. Ma Rainey, the Mother of the Blues.

Day 10. Alvin Ailey, dancer, choreographer and director, and founder of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, one of the most successful dance companies in the world.

Day 11. Mel Boozer, scholar and activist, the first openly gay man to be nominated Vice President of the United States in 1980

Day 12. Glenn Burke, baseball player and athlete, the first openly gay MLB active player, and credited inventor of the High Five.