Portal:Transgender

The Compton's Cafeteria Riot occurred in August 1966 in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. This incident was one of the first recorded LGBT-related riots in United States history, along with the Cooper Do-nuts Riot, preceding the more famous 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City. It marked the beginning of transgender activism in San Francisco.

The 1960s was a critical time period for sexual, gender, and ethnic minorities—social movements which honed in on civil rights and sexual liberation came into fruition, and even churches, like the Glide Memorial Methodist Church in San Francisco, began reaching out to the transgender community. Still, many police officers resisted this change and continued to abuse and ostracize transgender people. This simultaneous rise in support for transgender rights on one side, and the unwillingness to accept these new ideas on the other, created the strain that would fuel the riot at Compton's Cafeteria in the summer of 1966, in which a transgender woman resisted arrest by throwing coffee at a police officer and drag queens poured into the streets, fighting back with their high heels and heavy bags.

Jenny Bailey was the civic leader of Cambridge City Council in Cambridge, England. Bailey served her mayoral term from 2007-2008. Bailey became a member of the city council in 2002, when she was elected to represent the suburb of East Chesterton within Cambridge. She served the council continuously from 2002-2007, rising the ranks until she was chosen to become mayor in 2007. Prior to her appointment as full mayor, she acted as a deputy in 2006.

She was the first transgender mayor in the United Kingdom, with Varsity, the eldest of Cambridge University's newspapers, suggesting even the world. However, Bailey was keen to play down the significance of this, saying, "I don't want to let it define me."

• ... that transgender pioneer Barbara Ann Wilcox proposed to her husband on the day she met him?
• ... that The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven, Jo Clifford's 2009 play featuring Jesus as a trans woman, was called an "offensive abuse of Christian beliefs" by Archbishop Mario Conti?
• ... that The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes discusses the history of transgender man Ewan Forbes and his 1968 legal case to inherit his family's baronetcy that was silenced from public records?
• ... that records of transgender people in Finland stretch back to the 19th century?
• ... that the Robyn Gigl novel By Way of Sorrow, which features a transgender lawyer as the protagonist, was described as "quietly groundbreaking" by The New York Times?
• ... that Jo Inkpin was Australia's first openly transgender Anglican priest?

• 1 – Christine and the Queens (1988), French non-binary singer and songwriter
• 3 – Daniela Vega (1989), Chilean transgender actress
• 5 – Buck Angel (1962), American adult film actor and producer
• 9 – Parinya Charoenphol (1981), Thai boxer, model and actress
• 9 – Bülent Ersoy (1952), Turkish singer and actress
• 9 – Roz Kaveney (1949), English transgender author
• 10 – Laerte (1951), Brazilian cartoonist and screenwriter
• 13 – Violet Chachki (1992), American genderqueer drag queen and musician
• 15 – Tash Sultana (1995), non-binary Australian singer-songwriter and musician
• 16 – Lou Sullivan (1951-1991), American transgender activist and author
• 19 – Erik Schinegger (1948), Austrian athlete
• 21 – Lana Wachowski (1965), American director, writer, producer
• 22 – Jennifer Finney Boylan (1958), American author
• 28 – Ataru Nakamura (1985), Japanese trans woman singer, songwriter, actress
• 30 – Elliot Fletcher (1996), American actor

• ... that African-American gay and transgender youth Ali Forney, once homeless himself, had a homeless LGBT youth center in New York City named after him for his work helping other youths?
• ... that non-binary transgender actor Indya Moore became the first transgender person to be featured on the cover of the US version of Elle magazine when they were featured in May 2019?
• ... that Jennie June (b. 1874), one of the earliest transgender people to publish an autobiography in the US, published the first and second volumes in 1918 and 1922, and wrote a third volume which was discovered in 2010?

The answer to the problem must not lie in sleeping pills and suicides that look like accidents, or in jail sentences, but rather in life and freedom to live it.