""The trans community was everywhere," she reflected, "I went immediately to 42nd Street. Everybody went to 42nd Street: trans girls, everybody. Finding them was not a problem.... I found an apartment that I moved into. It was six floors of nothing but trans girls. It was fabulous. There were so many of us that it was a full life.""
""So I spit in some guy's face, and he knocked me out," she said. "Other than that, I don't remember anything.""
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy died on October 13 at age 78 after time in hospice care. She devoted more than five decades to advancing transgender equality amid ongoing national struggles over queer rights. She moved from Chicago to New York City in the 1960s and lived within a dense trans community on 42nd Street. She was present at the Stonewall riots in June 1969 and endured violence during the unrest. After a robbery arrest, she spent years in men's prisons and mental hospitals and experienced mistreatment. She became a leading advocate for incarcerated trans people, joined the Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project in 2005, served as its first executive director from 2010 to 2015, and founded the House of gg in 2019.
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