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Title: Goodbye to ‘quiet trailblazer’
Post by: Shana A on May 12, 2010, 07:57:54 AM
Goodbye to 'quiet trailblazer'

    Andie Noonan
Posted:
    Wednesday, 12 May 2010

http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/05/12/goodbye-to-%E2%80%98quiet-trailblazer%E2%80%99/25250 (http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/05/12/goodbye-to-%E2%80%98quiet-trailblazer%E2%80%99/25250)

Tributes have started flowing for Tasmanian transgender activist Roz Houston, who passed away in Burnie on Monday after a long illness.

Houston — a passionate human rights campaigner — was said to be one of the first transgender Tasmanians to openly speak out against transphobia and discrimination in the southern state.

Tasmanian transgender spokeswoman Martine Delaney hailed Houston as a "trailblazer."