
Ianne Fields Stewart: actor and activist; founded The Okra Project, a New York-based nonprofit that employs Black trans chefs to visit the homes of Black trans people.

The AIDS/ARC Vigil, 1987. Prominent lesbian and gay activists chained themselves to San Francisco’s Old Federal Building. Front row, I to r: Greg Day, Barbara Cameron, Pat Norman, Ken McPherson.
From San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.

Miss saHHara: the first Nigerian trans woman to come out publicly; the first Black trans woman to be crowned winner in an international beauty competition.






