WaPo: “Miss Major Griffin-Gracy spent more than half a century refusing to be ignored while advocating for transgender people and others who’d been marginalized: sex workers, drug users and those who were homeless, sick or dying….
Miss Major, whom the LGBTQ+ rights organization Lambda Legal described as “a towering figure for transgender liberation,” inspired legions of activists eager to speak up. She was 78 when she died Oct. 13 at her home in Little Rock, according to House of gg, a trans rights nonprofit she founded in the city. Tracie Jada O’Brien, a friend and fellow activist, said she died of complications from a urinary tract infection that spread to her bloodstream.”