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Former San Francisco Police Sergeant Elliott Blackstone, a longtime ally of the LGBT community, died October 25, a month shy of his 82nd birthday.

According to an obituary placed in the San Francisco Chronicle, Sgt. Blackstone suffered a major stroke.
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n 1968, with financial support from transgender philanthropist Reed Erickson, he started the National Transsexual Counseling Unit, the first-ever peer-staffed transgender social services agency. He even took up a collection at his church to help transgender women pay for hormone therapy.