He doesn't look a day over 25, but Jevon Martin is celebrating his 50th birthday today. I first met Jevon at the 2013 BTAC, when he ...

  Today marks the 50th birthday of one of my DC homegirls in Ruby Corado, the founding ED of Casa Ruby. I first became aware of her afte...

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others'...

One of the first people I met when I was beginning my journey toward getting involved at a national level in trans advocacy work was a Col...

"i'm not a fetish.  I'm not a sideshow. I'm not a trend. I'm none of those things.  I feel like I have a target on m...

Had one of my posts from last year pop up to remind me once again how badly this country was screwed when the Orange Moron got elected T...

Couldn't let today pass without wishing Fran Watson a very happy 40th birthday. Y'all know I have much love for my trailblazing ...

Last year I got to meet this amazing twentysomething trans advocate during an anti-violence conference in Chicago.. When I first met her...

Today is the day 30 years ago that Dee Dee Watters showed up on this planet!  I've had the pleasure of calling her a friend and collab...

Today is the milestone 50th birthday of San Francisco based trans advocate and pioneer Cecilia Chung! Before I had the pleasure of spend...

Today is the 80th birthday of trailblazing singer and iconic Broadway and television actress Diahann Carroll, who was born on this date ...

Time for another TransGriot birthday shoutout.  I didn't meet her until the summer of 2010, but our multiple conversations since then ...

I share my May 4 birthday with more than a few famous people, and one of them is the fabulous Kimora Lee Simmons. I love my Blasian sister f...

Across The Pond today is the milestone birthday of one of our trans community icons.  Today April Ashley, MBE was born on this date 80 yea...

Today would have been the 23rd birthday of my fallen New York transsister Islan Nettles. But because she ran into some transphobes on a Ha...

Today is the milestone 60th birthday of model, trans advocate and Bond Girl Caroline Cossey who was born on this date in the UK in 1954. S...

I have been waiting for this day for two years now and it has finally arrived.   It's Renee's milestone birthday, and one in whi...

Today would have been the milestone birthday of one of our ballroom legends in Octavia St. Laurent.had she not gone to be with the ancesto...

Today is the Big 5-0 birthday of First Lady Michelle Obama, who was born on this date in Chicago in 1964.  Yeah, the folks that hate on...

My birthday is tomorrow not excited but grateful to see another year....My Lord is awesome...... --Bree Wallace, December 1, 2013 If the was...