As the country celebrates Pride Month, here are just a handful of names to know of LGBTQ pioneers who've fought for gay, bi and transgender rights (via KQEDarts): - Miss Major Griffin Gracy - Marcus Arana - Lani Ka'ahumanu - Blackberri - Jewelle Gomez
The fighting spirit that made Miss Major famous has been with her since she was born so premature that she could fit in the palm of her father's hand."I've been a struggling bitch from the moment I took breath, fighting to hang in there and survive and be here, and make myself known," she told OUTWORDS.
That wouldn't be the last bit of change Arana had a hand in crafting. When he was 37 years old and working at Community United Against Violence, an organization dedicated to addressing violence against the LGBTQ+ community, Arana finally gave into the feeling that had been nagging him since he first saw. In a staff meeting, he blurted out that he's trans.
Growing up, Ka’ahumanu always knew what was expected of her: marry a man and have kids. And she played along for a while, falling in love with the captain of the football team, marrying him at 19 and having two kids by the time she was 24. But then she met a new friend who didn't shave her legs and shared stories of the women's rights movement. It wasn't long before Ka'ahumanu changed her honorific from Mrs. to Ms.
Years later, while working as a chef at a new age, clothing-optional resort in Mendocino County, Ka'ahumanu met a younger man who wanted to chat about Adrienne Rich's poetry. Cut to them hooking up in the storage room. Even though that March on Washington wasn't perfect, Ka'ahumanu still takes pride in all that she and her organization achieved."We were at that national table. We did the work. We were there."AIDS educator. History-making musician. Uplifter of queer Black men. Yoruba priest. Blackberri is all of those things and more, and the seeds of his multi-faceted personality sprouted from the very beginning.
. Witnessing the effects of the disease inspired Blackberri to shift his focus to prevention, specifically as it pertained to the black community."Black people have always been negroes, always been considered ugly," he said to OUTWORDS."So there's a lot of internalized stuff around how we look, how we are, our hair, our lips. Some people buy into it and that internalized self-hatred has driven the AIDS epidemic.
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