📚✏️DID YOU KNOW that events are held worldwide to celebrate LGBTQ2S+ identities and to honor the activists who fought, and continue to fight, for their rights? This Pride Month, we want to highlight several incredible LGBTQ2S+ Indigenous activists, artists, and educators. 

Barbara May Cameron (Hunkpapa Lakota) (1954 – Present) is a prominent Indigenous LGBTQ+ activist and writer. Barbara co-founded Gay American Indians with her friend Randy Burns and has written extensively about oppression faced by queer and Indigenous people in the United States. 

Learn More: https://www.kqed.org/arts/13889944/the-indigenous-activist-who-demanded-inclusion-for-all-lgbtq-people

Geo Soctomah Neptune (Passamaquoddy) (1988—present) is a Two-Spirit master basket maker, activist, storyteller, educator, and model. They were also the first transgender elected official and two-spirit person to run for office in Maine. 

Learn More: https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/invitational-2023/online/geo-neptune

Sydney Freeland (Navajo) (1980 – Present) is a transgender Indigenous filmmaker. Through Freeland’s films, she aims to highlight the wide range of Indigenous experiences and identities that have historically been excluded and erased.  

Learn More: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/indigenous-film-sydney-freeland_n_67a3a6f8e4b0bfc253ffbc1f

Storme Webber (Sugpiaq/Black/Choctaw) (1959 – Present) is a Two-Spirit interdisciplinary artist, performer, and advocate whose work focuses on black indigenous experiences and queer activism.  Webber has had work featured in the National Museum of the American Indian and was named a Seattle Living Legacy for her work in queer and indigenous communities. 

Learn More: https://americanindian.si.edu/ancestors-know/artists/storme-webber

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