Wilma Sharman was everywhere and knew everyone in the East Coast trans movement in the 1970s. I am grateful our paths crossed, and I’m honored to tell (part of) her story.
Category: Transgender
Black Market Breasts
I recently ran across an article I wrote back in 1983 which was published in the Renaissance Update newsletter. The topic was how trans women were accessing hormone therapy by bypassing the usual medical route.…
Pride 2020
I was asked to contribute a video as to what Pride meant to me. This was especially poignant during the Pandemic, the Trump administration, and the George Floyd murder. As a bonus, I was proudly…
Spotlight on the Albany TVIC Group
Some Early Writing
A Surgery Story
In those pre-internet days, we relied on media to share information. I was a 24-year-old editor at Neptune Productions in 1976, the summer I had gender conformation surgery, and since there were so few first-person…