"Pioneering transgender rights leader Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed on October 13, 2025, leaving behind an unparalleled legacy of over five decades of nationwide advocacy for the transgender community, the overall LGBTQ+ community, and in tireless support of numerous other social and racial justice efforts. She had been in home hospice care due to complications from a urinary tract infection. Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, she lived an openly LGBTQ+ life since adolescence."
"Beginning in 2005, Griffin-Gracy became a leader of the San Francisco-based Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project, and was named the organization's first Executive Director in 2010. She retired in late 2015, the same year that a documentary film about her life, MAJOR!, was released ( https://www.missmajorfilm.com/). After moving to Arkansas, she founded the Griffin-Gracy Educational and Historical Center, fondly known as the House of GG."
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy dedicated more than fifty years to nationwide transgender and LGBTQ+ advocacy and to broader social and racial justice efforts. She was born and raised on Chicago’s South Side and lived openly LGBTQ+ from adolescence. She participated in the 1969 Stonewall riots alongside early community leaders. Her community service included support for trans women, food bank work, and compassionate home health care during the HIV/AIDS pandemic. After moving to San Francisco in the 1990s, she worked at City of Refuge and the Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center, led the Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project, and later established the Griffin-Gracy Educational and Historical Center in Arkansas.
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