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Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (born October 25, 1946), often referred to as Miss Major, is an American author, activist, and community organizer for transgender rights. She has participated in activism and community organizing for a range of causes, and served as the first executive director for the Transgender Gender Variant Intersex ...
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (Chicago, 25 de octubre de 1940), a menudo conocida como Miss Major, es una mujer trans activista y líder comunitaria por los derechos de las personas transgénero, con un enfoque particular en las mujeres de color.
Miss Major is a Black, transgender activist who has fought for over fifty years for her trans/gender nonconforming community. Major is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a survivor of Dannemora Prison and Bellevue Hospital’s “queen tank.”. Her global legacy of activism is rooted in her own experiences, and ...
8 de mar. de 2018 · Miss Major Griffin-Gracy has spent more than 40 years advocating for the marginalized, whether in prisons or on the streets. Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, the trans activist came to know herself in the 1950s and 60s, when police raids of queer bars were rampant and the thought of LGBTQ+ people speaking out against ...
Learn about the life and activism of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a transgender woman who fought for LGBTQ+ rights in New York City. Watch a video created by the New-York Historical Society Teen Leaders in collaboration with the Untold project.
27 de jul. de 2016 · Miss Major Griffin-Gracy was born in the 1940s in Chicago, Illinois. Around age 13, she came out to her parents as transgender. After a psychologist, an exorcism, and prayer failed to change Miss Major’s conviction to live by her own rules, her parents kicked her out. To survive, she turned to sex work.
21 de nov. de 2018 · Learn about the life and legacy of Miss Major, a Stonewall Uprising veteran and a leader in social justice for transgender people. She shares her story of survival, resistance, and advocacy in this oral history interview.
