"Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a legendary transgender activist, was known for many things in her community. As a caretaker, she was known for getting Black trans women off the street and housed when they faced poverty and violence. As a fierce advocate for trans rights, she was known for demanding that LGBTQ+ people focus on protecting the most vulnerable among them, like women being policed and incarcerated for trying to survive."
"Her nonprofit retreat for trans leaders, The House of gg - the Griffin-Gracy Educational and Historical Center - announced her death in an Instagram statement on Monday night. She died at home on October 13 in Little Rock, Arkansas, surrounded by loved ones, the statement said. She was78, according to the statement, although she doubted official records of her birth and believed she was in her 80s. She was hospitalized twice this year and was recently in hospice care, following a bloodstream infection."
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy was a legendary transgender activist and caretaker who helped get Black trans women off the street and housed during poverty and violence. She demanded LGBTQ+ people focus on protecting the most vulnerable, including women policed and incarcerated for trying to survive. She was a veteran of the 1969 Stonewall uprising and served as a queer elder who rejected using the past as an excuse for inaction. Her nonprofit retreat for trans leaders, The House of gg — the Griffin-Gracy Educational and Historical Center — announced her death. She died at home on October 13 in Little Rock, Arkansas, surrounded by loved ones and was reported as 78. She had been hospitalized twice that year, entered hospice care after a bloodstream infection, and suffered a second stroke in 2019. She is survived by longtime partner Beck Witt Major; child Asiah Wittenstein Major; other children she raised, including son Christopher; successor Janetta Johnson; and sisters Tracie O'Brien and Billie Cooper.
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