Imagine being best known for being outed posthumously as a trans man. Billy Tipton was much more. Fabulous musician, talent broker, family man and according to four different relationships, the best lover in the world.
Love this guy!

Gladys Mae West is an american Mathematician that was known for her contributions to mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth, and her work on the development of satellite geodesy models, that were later incorporated into the Global Positioning System.
#BlackGirlMagic #BlackHistory

Richard T Greener. The first black man to graduate Harvard University. Became America's first black diplomat to a white country (Russia).
#blackhistory #CantEraseUs

Marsha P. Johnson was a member of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and co-founded the radical activist group Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), alongside close friend Sylvia Rivera. My hero and should be yours too. I want to say so much more but character limitations stop me.

I been slacking on finding things to introduce y'all to. Jackie Shane Was a Transgender jazz and soul singer in the Toronto jazz scene. Originally from Nashville, Tn, She joined a travelling carnival and ended up in Cornwall Ontario where she finally felt free.
#BlackHistory #WeWereAlwaysHere

I'm a bit late today but here you go, A quickie!
Jerry Lawson: The Father of the Video Game Cartridge.
Led the development of the Fairchild Channel F in 1976.
Self-taught engineer
Founded VideoSoft, one of the first Black-owned video game companies
Picture curtesy of IGN

Another day of owning the fascists! I am sure that their lil' old grandma's would happily thank Dr. Patricia E. Bath,An ophthalmologist who invented the Laserphaco Probe, a laser cataract treatment device, in 1986.
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackExcellence #BLM

Charlene Alexander Mitchell was an American international socialist, feminist, labor and civil rights activist. Actually the first black woman to run for president in 1968. She was only on the ballot in two states.
SHARING BLACK HISTORY TO OWN THE FASCISTS!
#BLACKHISTORY #blackexcellence

Sometimes certain white people ask, "Why do black people get a month?" Well if we didn't, you would never learn about people like Frederick Jones, who invented the first successful system for mobile refrigeration.

Celebrating black history month to own the fascists