Marty Robinson was one of the most influential activists to emerge from the period immediately following the Stonewall uprising. Present on Christopher Street during the uprising, he helped transform a spontaneous rebellion into an organized movement and later became a leading figure in both the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA).

Zazu Nova was, in the language of the time, a “street queen.” A gender-nonconforming activist. Nova was participant in the Stonewall uprising whose name appears repeatedly in recollections of the rebellion and the liberation movement that followed. Although relatively little is known about her life, multiple witnesses remembered Nova as part of the community of young gender-nonconforming people who gathered around Christopher Street in the years leading up to Stonewall.

Jerry Hoose (1945–2015) was a Stonewall veteran, Gay Liberation Front activist, and longtime community organizer whose activism spanned nearly five decades. Present at the Stonewall uprising in 1969, he joined the newly formed Gay Liberation Front and became an important figure in the organization's social and fundraising efforts.

Susan Silverman was a lesbian feminist, social worker, and pioneering gay liberation activist whose work spanned more than five decades. She was an early member of GLF and was active in New York Radical Women, Gay Youth, the Lavender Menace, and Radicalesbians.

Artist who helped shaped the visual voice of early gay liberation.

Civil rights organizer who helped connect gay liberation to the wider struggle for human freedom