Marsha was a transgender activist and also a central figure in the Stonewall riots of 1969, where members of the LGBT community rose up in protest against police raids on the bar of the same name ...

David Burtka and Neil Patrick Harris are one of Hollywood’s most beloved and outspoken couples. Ironically, they got to know each other when Neil impersonated ruthless ladies man Barney Stinson ...

and she became an unwitting gay and feminist icon. Yam died in her Happy Valley home on November 29, 1989. Thousands of fans turned out for her funeral in Hong Kong.