Two-time Emmy winner Keke Palmer is the definition of groundbreaking. The actor, singer, host, and podcaster has been in the spotlight since she was a child, starring as a grade-schooler competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Akeelah and the Bee, and later getting her own Nickelodeon sitcom, True Jackson, VP. As an adult, she's starred in Cinderella on Broadway, Scream Queens on TV, and movies like Hustlers and Jordan Peele's Nope on the big screen.
Though Palmer says she doesn’t choose to identify herself with labels, she has “always felt accepted by and a part of ” the LGBTQ+ community. Beyond her work in show business, she is a businesswoman, a proud mother, and a certified icon.
In the past year, she released her second book, Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative, starred opposite SZA in the comedy One of Them Days, and continues to host her successful podcast, Baby, This is Keke Palmer. @keke
Years before Stonewall, a cafeteria riot became a breakthrough for trans rights
All about the Compton's Cafeteria riot, when drag queens and trans women rose up against police at a diner in San Francisco.