Marie Equi was an out lesbian who lived openly with another woman and adopted a child, a high school drop-out who got a medical degree, a political activist who fought for workers' rights and abortion rights and put everything on the line to protest against the United States entering a popular war...and she did it all in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. SOURCE: Michael Helquist. "Marie Equi: Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions." (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2015).