Miss Major in The Trans List (2016)
Transcript and description:
A series of images with subtitles showing words spoken by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy. The first images show black and white photos of the Stonewall Riots.
The first picture shows cops leading a drag queen (as identified by Getty, though this term also referred generally to trans women). The source seems to be a 1962 photo by Getty Images from a ball that took place seven years before Stonewall, and she is probably being arrested for “masquerading and indecent exposure” according to Getty.
The second image shows a crowd of angry people over the shoulders of two cops and a man in a suit who are facing them and holding them back, and is the only picture of the first night of the Stonewall Riots. (Wikimedia Commons copy).
The third image shows a crowd of people outside the West Side Savings Bank on the corner of Christopher Street (location of the Stonewall Inn), with a small group of cops in the foreground, on the fifth night of the Stonewall Riots. (NYT source)
The remaining images show pictures of Miss Major, a Black woman with dark grey hair wearing a pink shirt, speaking to the camera. The subtitles say:
“And when that Stonewall Incident happened, I was there when the fighting started. Did it change things? It did for the gay and the lesbian community. Did it change things for my transgender community? It really didn’t. We’re the third or fourth letter in that alphabet soup thing that they have, LGBT. Well, to me, “T” should have been first. We were there doing most of the fighting, so let’s start there.”
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