The Most Awesome LGBTQ Women In History

Lauren Morelli

Lauren Morelli is the groundbreaking writer behind the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. Morelli only came out as a lesbian in 2014 and attributed the discovery of her sexuality to writing the main characters in Orange is the New Black. She filed for divorce from her husband of two years in September of 2014, and in 2016, she announced that she was engaged to Samira Wiley (the actress behind Litchfield inmate Poussey Washington).

Morelli’s worked has been the subject of much praise. In 2014, the Online Film and Television Association nominated her for “Best Writing in a Comedy Series.” She was awarded “Best Comedy Series” by The Writer’s Guild of America in 2014 and 2015 for Orange is the New Black.

Laura Jane Grace

Laura Jane Grace is a modern-day, ultra-inspiring feminist and transgender musician and activist. As the singer and guitarist of the punk rock band Against Me!, Grace came out as transgender in 2012.

Since coming out as trans, Grace has become an activist for trans women and works to increase trans visibility in the mainstream. She has since released a memoir and starred in an AOL original series called True Trans. The Emmy-nominated series explored the punk rocker’s life since she came out as a woman, as well as the lives of other people in the trans community who are underrepresented in the media. Grace famously burned her birth certificate live on stage to protest North Carolina’s trans-phobic “bathroom bill.”