Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died
The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.
October 13, 2025
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The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.
Miss Major has entered hospice care, but "is comfortable and surrounded by love," her partner says.
There's a crowdfunding campaign to help cover her health care costs.
Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, and many other trans people were part of the modern queer rights movement that started with Stonewall.
Some of the details are disputed, but here's what we know about what happened at the Stonewall Inn in 1969.