Showing posts with label transgender icons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transgender icons. Show all posts
Saturday, October 17, 2015

Miss Major's TGIJP Retirement Party Coming Soon

›
After her decades of service to our community, the TGI Justice Project announced that Miss Major Griffin-Gracy  would be retiring as exec...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

1996 Miss Major Letter- Affirmation!

›
The MAJOR documentary is a step closer to finally being finished, and you can check out the website or the film's Facebook page for ...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Happy 80th Birthday April Ashley!

›
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...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Jaci Adams Passes Away

›
Per several sources in Philadelphia, I have been advised that longtime Philadelphia trans activist Jaci Adams is now with the ancestors a...
Monday, November 11, 2013

Georgina Beyer Being Honored At Upcoming NZ Fundraiser

›
Georgina Beyer will go down in history as the world's first trans mayor and first trans MP, but has been battling chronic kidney failure...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

Octavia St. Laurent- Salon Talk

›
Octavia St. Laurent passed away in May 2009 , but she still lives on not only in the hearts of those who loved her, but also the memories ...
Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Georgina Beyer Seriously Ill

›
Georgina Beyer, who rose from a challenging situation to become the world's first trans MP in 1999 is reportedly seriously ill with a...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

February 13, 1953

›
Today was the day 60 years ago that Christine Jorgenson stepped off a Scandinavian Airways flight from Copenhagen to Idlewild (now JFK) ...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

When Farrakhan And Christine Jorgensen's Paths Crossed

›
History and historical figures sometimes have those moments where they cross paths as they play their roles on the historical stage..  ...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Christine Jorgensen-Sixty Years Later

›
While Christine Jorgensen was quietly convalescing in a Danish hospital after the second of her genital surgeries on November 20, the news...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Trans Pioneer April Ashley Receives Her MBE

›
I wrote about this when it happened back in June , and in a morning investiture ceremony held at Buckingham Palace last Thursday, trans ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Marsha P. Johnson Case Being Reopened

›
Marsha P. Johnson was one of our trailblazing trans women as a Stonewall veteran, activist and a co-founder of Street Transvestite Action Re...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Christine Jorgenson Hour Magazine Interview

›
Video of a Christine Jorgenson interview in the 1980's with Gary Collins on the Hour Magazine talk show.
Friday, March 23, 2012

Sylvia Speaks

›
As in Sylvia Rivera, the mother of the trans rights movement.
Monday, February 13, 2012

Christine Jorgenson Returns To New York

›
On this date in 1953 Christine Jorgenson stepped off an airplane from Denmark and into an intense  media spotlight that blew a nuke test o...
Sunday, December 18, 2011

Former New Zealand MP Beyer Having Tough Time

›
Back in 1999 she made headlines and gave the international trans community a huge sense of pride in her trailblazing achievement when she ...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

Miss Major Update

›
Posted about our trans icon in Miss Major being hospitalized for elevated blood pressure. Was advised by Minister Bobbie Jean Baker that ...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

Miss Major Hospitalized

›
Y'all know how much I love and admire one of our pioneering trans elders in Miss Major.   Was saddened and alarmed to hear from Minist...