Frances Alice Kellor (1873 - 1952) provides an excellent LGBT role model.
Provocatively, the author argues that Kellor created modern America.
Kellor's amazing accomplishments include:

• Founding the National Urban League
  
• Using Basketball to make women masculine
  
• Measuring Female African - American Prisoners for their freedom
  
• Getting Suffrage on National Party Platforms for the first and second times
  
• Running the Americanization Movement that greeted immigrants from 1906-1921
  
• Leading Two Presidential Campaigns before she could vote
  
• Launching the field of International Arbitration
  
• And much, much, more