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Gloria Allen - photo courtesy of "Mama Gloria" film

In Memoriam: Transgender Activist Gloria Allen (Mama Gloria)

Transgender activist Gloria Allen (Mama Gloria), who founded and ran a charm school for homeless trans youth and was the subject of the award-winning documentary “Mama Gloria” and the critically acclaimed play “Charm,” has died at the age of 76.

I Wish My Father - Lesléa Newman

Lesléa Newman Writes of Her Aging Father in Her Latest Book of Poems

Lesléa Newman may be best known to readers here as the author of Heather Has Two Mommies and other children’s books. She is also, however, an award-winning poet, and her latest volume of poetry for adults is a wise and loving look at her father in the last years of his life.

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New StoryCorps Initiative to Capture Stories of LGBTQ Elders — Here’s How to Help

StoryCorps, the national oral history project, is launching a new initiative to capture the stories of LGBTQ elders born before the Stonewall Riots. Even if you don’t fit this category yourself, you can interview an LGBTQ elder and help preserve their stories for the future. The project is personal to StoryCorps founder Dave Isay, who has said his own dad’s coming out and relating the story of Stonewall helped inspire StoryCorps itself.

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