"Miss Major spent over 50 years fighting for trans rights and prison reform, helping people suffering with HIV/AIDS, and providing spaces for trans people to exist safely. "Her enduring legacy is a testament to her resilience, activism, and dedication to creating safe spaces for Black trans communities and all trans people-we are eternally grateful for Miss Major's life, her contributions, and how deeply she poured into those she loved," House of gg said in their statement."
"After telling them that "this existence that I had, it just didn't feel right," her parents took her first to a psychiatrist, and then to a church to have "the demon excised from me." In her memoir, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations With a Black Trans Revolutionary, written with Toshio Meronek, she claimed to love her parents "despite their recurring attempts to smack the queen out of her.""
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a 78-year-old trans rights advocate and veteran of the Stonewall Riots, died in Little Rock, Arkansas, surrounded by loved ones. Her non-profit, the Griffin-Gracy Educational and Historical Center (House of gg), announced her passing. She spent more than 50 years fighting for trans rights, advocating for prison reform, supporting people with HIV/AIDS, and creating safe spaces for trans people, especially Black trans communities. Miss Major suffered a stroke in 2019 and was hospitalized in September with a blood clot and sepsis. Born in Chicago in 1946, she came out to her parents at age 12 or 13 and later documented her life in a memoir written with Toshio Meronek.
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