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Why is Pride Month in June?
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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychoanalyst
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
French philosopher and historian
Wilhelm Reich
Austrian psychologist
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer
Australian writer
John Money
American psychologist
A.L. Rowse
British historian and writer
Mary Steichen Calderone
American physician
Abraham, Karl
Karl Abraham
German psychoanalyst
Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin
American photographer
Dan Savage
Dan Savage
American writer
Larry Clark
American photographer
Kamala Das
Indian author