Stonewall veteran Miss Major, who is over 80 years old, is on the road urging trans people to stand up and fight. She has left Little Rock, Arkansas to spread the word with trans people in New York City, Washington, D.C., and beyond: They need to wake up, stand up and realize just how perilous the current political moment is. She relies on motorized scooters or wheelchairs to get around. But still, she is determined. On Thursday last week, she met with transgender community figures and activists in Washington on the second leg of her tour at a local queer bar. Miss Major fought back at the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York City. In an interview she said, “I’m not going back. These kids don’t know what it was like then, what we had to go through, how we had to fight. Somebody’s gotta light a fire under their ass and get them up and going.”
Transgender Stonewall Veteran Miss Major Hits The Road To Raise The Alarm About Trans Rights
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