What Trans Elder Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Wants You to Know | LGBTQ+ Elders Project

Описание: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a singular force in our community.

A veteran of the Stonewall uprising, Miss Major's dedicated the past 50 years towards working and advocating for incarcerated trans folks, particularly trans women of color who, like Miss Major was, are often housed in men's prisons. She's worked for multiple HIV/AIDS organizations, lead support groups around the U.S., and was the first executive director of the Transgender Gender-Variant and Intersex Justice Project, a role she held until she retired in 2015.

Now 80 years old, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy lives in Arkansas and is one of the executive producers of the new series, Trans in Trumpland (streaming on February 25th on Topic.com and the Topic channel through AppleTV, Roku, and Amazon Prime).

On this week's episode of LGBTQ&A, Miss Major speaks about how different the trans experience is today, achieving "icon" status, and why she wants to be an example for other trans women. "There aren't that many Black girls still alive. Let them know that they can get here too."

You can read a transcript here: https://www.advocate.com/transgender/...

[This interview was conducted in February of 2021.]

LGBTQ&A is hosted and produced by Jeffrey Masters.