Marisa Richmond: Transgendered Woman of Color & Democratic Delegate
By: Pauline Park
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The 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver will be a 'first' in many important ways: it will certainly be the first major party convention to nominate either a woman or an African American for president.
But DNC 2008 will be notable for some other firsts as well: it will be the first major party convention at which an openly transgendered woman of color will be seated as a delegate, the New York Blade reports. An African American woman from Tennessee, Marisa Richmond has been named a delegate by Howard Dean. "I plan to use this opportunity to every chance I get talk about inclusion, diversity and how all GLBT people — including trans people — are victims of discrimination and hate crimes and why it's so necessary for the Democratic Party to stand up for what's right," she told the Blade.