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Angela Lynn Douglas
Angela Lynn Douglas was an American transgender activist and singer. She was a transgender woman who performed as a rock musician and was a prominent pioneering figure in transsexual activism during the 1970s. She founded the Transsexual Action Organization (TAO), the first international trans organization. She wrote articles about the state of trans politics at the time for the ''Berkeley Barb'', ''The Advocate (LGBT magazine), The Advocate'', the ''Bay Area Reporter'', ''Come Out!'' and ''Everywoman'', in addition to TAO's ''Mirage magazine'' and ''Moonshadow Bulletin''. She expressed racist attitudes at various points in her life, and at one point became active with the Nazi party. Early life Douglas was born in Detroit in 1943 to Hungarian immigrants. Her father was in AFOSI, Air Force Intelligence and her mother worked for the AEC, CIA, and DEA. She went to Hialeah High School, where she met her future wife Norma Arcadia RodrÃguez. In 1962, she married RodrÃguez despit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transgender Activist
The transgender rights movement is a movement to promote the legal status of transgender people and to eliminate discrimination and violence against transgender people regarding housing, employment, public accommodations, education, and health care. A major goal of transgender activism is to allow changes to identification documents to conform with a person's current gender identity without the need for sex reassignment surgery or any medical requirements, which is known as ''gender self-identification''. It is part of the broader LGBT rights movements. History Identifying the boundaries of a trans movement has been a matter of some debate. Conventionally, evidence of a codified political identity emerges in 1952, when Virginia Prince, a trans woman, along with others, launched '' Transvestia: The Journal of the American Society for Equality in Dress''. This publication is considered by some to be the beginning of the transgender rights movement in the United States, however i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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