Sheila Kuehl
Kuehl was elected to the California State Assembly in 1994, becoming the first openly gay person elected to the California legislature. While running for office Kuehl found she was able to offset some negative stereotypes people had about lesbians thanks to their familiarity with her role as Zelda. She told an interviewer "When people know gay people personally, they tend to feel differently about the whole community. And all of a sudden, here's a person that they knew very well that they found out was lesbian."
Sheila Pinkel
Sheila Mae Pinkel (born 1941) is an American artist best known for her cameraless photography work. Her artwork has environmental and political themes, with series about nuclear reactors, U.S. involvement in El Salvador, prisons and the lack of natural grown foods. Sheila Pinkel was born in Newport News, Virginia. She attended Santa Monica High School and University of California, Berkeley (Bachelor of Arts in Art/Sculpture, 1963) before getting her MFA in Art/Photography from UCLA in 1977. From 1986 - 2012 she was a Professor of Art at Pomona College in California.