Leaders of the pack
Trans performer, lesbian author tapped as Pride marshals
By MATT SCHAFER
JUL. 4, 2008
http://www.southernvoice.com/2008/7-4/locallife/pride/8790.cfm (http://www.southernvoice.com/2008/7-4/locallife/pride/8790.cfm)
Transgender activists and artists and a lesbian of color will lead this year's Atlanta Pride parade, as the annual festival strives to be more welcoming of everyone fitting under the "LGBT" umbrella.
Transgender performance artist Scott Turner Schofield and Shonia Brown, author and publisher of African-American lesbian romance and erotica, are the festival's 2008 grand marshals. Calpernia Addams, a transgender author and reality TV star, will act as an honorary marshal.
"Pride has tried especially hard this year to be more inclusive," Pride Executive Director Donna Narducci says. "We have more transgender acts than before and our first transgender male grand marshal."
Trans performer, lesbian author tapped as Pride marshals
http://www.southernvoice.com/2008/7-4/locallife/pride/8790.cfm
7/4/2008
"Transgender activists and artists and a lesbian of color will lead
this year's Atlanta Pride parade, as the annual festival strives to be
more welcoming of everyone fitting under the "LGBT" umbrella.
Transgender performance artist Scott Turner Schofield and Shonia
Brown, author and publisher of African-American lesbian romance and
erotica, are the festival's 2008 grand marshals. Calpernia Addams, a
transgender author and reality TV star, will act as an honorary
marshal."