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    15 Powerful 20th Century Legends

    Jerry Portwood
    04/16/13
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    15 Powerful 20th Century Legends

    15 Powerful 20th Century Legends
      

    While our annual Power List ranks the most powerful LGBT people in America at this moment, that influence upon the national and international conversation was built upon the backs of giants. We have selected 15 personages from the past 100 years who have also had a broad reach--both for positive change as well as negative results--and one who may just change the lives for 21st Americans in unknown ways.

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