Tag: trans history
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LISA ISADORA CRUZ (LA GINGER VALDEZ)
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La Mujer Boricua! Lisa Isadora Valdez was born in la isla del encanto Puerto Rico on September 23, 1958. Most people will know her by her stage name of “Ginger Valdez.” She began performing in Puerto Rico when it was still illegal to walk around looking like the “opposite” sex.…
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MJ RODRIGUEZ
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the category is celebration and the winner is the incomparable miss mj rodriguez. on june 3, 2018 “pose” premiered on FX. set in the 1980s and 1990s, “pose” told the story of black and brown trans and queer young people as they built community to hold themselves together while navigating…
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LORENA BORJAS
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long known as a mother, activist and defender of trans women, sex workers and undocumented LGBTQIA folks, lorena borjas dedicated her life to the liberation of those living on the margins. lorena immigrated to the new york from veracruz, mexico in 1981 – just as the AIDS epidemic was beginning…
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CHARLENE ARCILA
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growing up in the 1990’s afforded me the opportunity to personally meet and work with lgbtqia pioneers who shoulders we stand on. charlene arcilla is one of them. miss charlene, as i called her, moved to philadelphia in 1991 from jackson, mississippi. much of the queer organizing taking place during…
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NIZAH MORRIS
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nizah was an absolute light and for the past 17 years, philadelphia queer and trans activists have worked to keep the memory of her alive by demanding justice for her still unsolved death. on the evening of december 22, 2002, nizah accepted a “courtesy” from a philadelphia police officer. moments…
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ANGIE XTRAVAGANZA
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“I’m your mother,” she said. It was a promise and defiant declaration to her kids that they would feel orphaned in a world where AIDS, violence, poverty, and homophobia would surely attempt to steal their magic. It was the early 1980’s, pre-gentrified New York, years before “transgender” and “gender non-conforming”…