American activist Soni Wolf was BOTD in 1948. Born in Germany, her parents immigrated to the United States when she was a baby, and she grew up in Rhode Island. During the Vietnam War, she worked as a medic with wounded soldiers at military hospitals in Texas. She later moved to San Francisco, California, where she immersed herself in the sexual counterculture. In 1978, she began riding with the lesbian motorcyclists group Dykes on Bikes in the Gay Freedom Day Parade. Wolf is credited with formalising the group and helped establish chapters across America, and later in Britain and Australia. In the 2000s, Wolf spearheaded a trademark application for the Dykes on Bikes name and logo, which was rejected twice on the basis that “dyke” was offensive. Undeterred, she led a legal battle in the Supreme Court for the decision to be overturned, arguing that “dyke” had been reclaimed by the lesbian community. In 2018, the Court ruled in her favour, accepting that historically oppressed minorities could use re-appropriated slurs. Wolf died later in 2018, aged 69. Amid many posthumous tributes, she was inducted into the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor at the Stonewall Memorial in New York City.