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Black LGBT History Is Your History, Too

Started by Shana A, February 01, 2009, 07:26:06 PM

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Shana A

February 01, 2009, 07:26:06 PM
Black LGBT History Is Your History, Too
Happy Black History Month!
Posted by Monica Roberts at 12:01 AM

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/02/black-lgbt-history-is-your-history-too.html

One of the things that's becoming more apparent every day is that African American transgender people existed before the early 21st century. We were living our lives during the Harlem Renaissance, in Chicago, New Orleans and in various cities like Pittsburgh as Charles 'Teenie' Harris' Pittsburgh Courier photographs and JET, EBONY and HUE magazine articles bear witness to.

That history also involves standing up for our rights as transgender people thanks to the people involved in the 1965 Dewey's Lunch Counter Sit-In Protest in Philadelphia.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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