Stonewall veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy moved to hospice care: 'She is surrounded by love'

"She is comfortable and surrounded by love."

"please pray for her."

""from the trauma arising from generations of transphobia, racism, poverty, ableism, and violence.""

"[W]e got to prepare ourselves to fight for our lives. We must hold on to our beliefs, hold on to our wishes and our wants and"

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, age 84, was hospitalized with sepsis and a blood clot and was moved home on hospice care on 4 October. Her partner, Beck Witt Major, posted that she is comfortable and surrounded by love and asked allies to please pray for her after a week-long hospitalization beginning 1 October. Miss Major was a key participant in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and worked with HIV-prevention groups in the 1980s. She became the first executive director of the Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project, co-founded the House of GG (The Oasis) in Arkansas, suffered a stroke in 2019, and raised over $622,000 for medical rehabilitation. She continued public activism, including a November 2024 Instagram call to prepare to fight for trans lives.

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