Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, age 84, was hospitalized with sepsis and a blood clot and was moved home on hospice care on 4 October. Her partner, Beck Witt Major, posted that she is comfortable and surrounded by love and asked allies to please pray for her after a week-long hospitalization beginning 1 October. Miss Major was a key participant in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and worked with HIV-prevention groups in the 1980s. She became the first executive director of the Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project, co-founded the House of GG (The Oasis) in Arkansas, suffered a stroke in 2019, and raised over $622,000 for medical rehabilitation. She continued public activism, including a November 2024 Instagram call to prepare to fight for trans lives.
"She is comfortable and surrounded by love."
"please pray for her."
""from the trauma arising from generations of transphobia, racism, poverty, ableism, and violence.""
"[W]e got to prepare ourselves to fight for our lives. We must hold on to our beliefs, hold on to our wishes and our wants and"
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