Ten names of late queer heroes will be added June 24 to the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, kicking off Pride weekend celebrations.
This year's honorees are lesbian artist and activist Ivy Bottini; lesbian Women's Building founding director Carmen Vázquez; Ruth Ellis, who at the time of her 2000 death was the oldest surviving out lesbian; Jimmy Pisano, who reopened the Stonewall space as an LGBTQ bar in 1990 several year before his death from complications due to AIDS; and Monica Roberts, a trans woman who was the founding editor of TransGriot, a blog focusing on issues facing trans women of color.