American dancer and activist Mabel Hampton was BOTD in 1902. Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, she lived with her grandmother until she was seven and was sent to New York City to live with relatives. After being sexually abused by her uncle, she ran away from home, and was eventually fostered by a white couple in New Jersey. At 17, she was falsely arrested on a prostitution offence and jailed for 13 months. In the 1920s, she danced in all-Black vaudeville productions alongside Gladys Bentley and Moms Mabley, though spent most of her adult life working as a domestic cleaner. In 1932, she formed a relationship with Lilian Foster, remaining together until Foster’s death in 1978. In later life, Hampton became involved in the emerging gay rights movement, marching in the first National Gay and Lesbian March in Washington. She became involved in the Lesbian Herstory Archives co-founded by Joan Nestle, recording a number of oral histories of her experiences as a Black queer woman, and also appeared in the 1984 documentary Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community. In recognition of her services to New York’s LGBT community, she was named grand marshal of the 1985 Gay Pride March and received a lifetime achievement award from the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays. She died in 1989 aged 87.