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'''Mariah Lopez''' (born 1985) is an American activist based in [[New York City]]. She has been a plaintiff in multiple lawsuits related to civil and human rights, and has lobbied for legislation and greater policy protections for [[LGBT|LGBTQ]] people. Lopez is the executive director for STARR (Strategic Trans Alliance for Radical Reform), a transgender rights advocacy group.<ref>{{cite news |title=The 2021 Pride Power 100: 51-100 |url=https://www.cityandstateny.com/power-lists/2021/06/the-2021-pride-power-100-51-100/182759/ |access-date=3 July 2022 |work=[[City & State]] |date=June 20, 2021}}</ref> By July 2022, Lopez had filed 14 lawsuits against government agencies.<ref name="Newman 2022" />
'''Mariah Lopez''' (born 1985) is an American activist based in [[New York City]]. She has been a plaintiff in multiple lawsuits related to civil and human rights, and has lobbied for legislation and greater policy protections for [[LGBT|LGBTQ]] people. Lopez is the executive director for STARR (Strategic Trans Alliance for Radical Reform), a transgender rights advocacy group.<ref>{{cite news |title=The 2021 Pride Power 100: 51-100 |url=https://www.cityandstateny.com/power-lists/2021/06/the-2021-pride-power-100-51-100/182759/ |access-date=3 July 2022 |work=[[City & State]] |date=June 20, 2021}}</ref>


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Lopez was born and raised in the [[Amsterdam Houses]] on the [[Upper West Side]] of [[New York City]].<ref name="Newman 2022">{{cite news |last1=Newman |first1=Andy |title=Suing New York, Over and Over, for Transgender Rights |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/03/nyregion/suing-new-york-over-and-over-for-transgender-rights.html |access-date=3 July 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 3, 2022}}</ref><ref name="Imbler 2021">{{cite news |last1=Imbler |first1=Sabrina |title=The Perseverance of New York City’s Wildflowers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/20/science/new-york-flowers-spring.html |access-date=3 July 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 20, 2021}}</ref> At age 9, she was placed in [[Foster care in the United States|foster care]] after her mother and grandmother died.<ref name="Newman 2022"/> She resided in a variety of group homes, including group homes for gay and transgender youth.<ref name="Newman 2022"/><ref name="Blanchard 2020" /> She left high school before graduation and later completed a [[General Educational Development|GED]] and then attended college.<ref name="Newman 2022"/>
Lopez was born and raised in the [[Amsterdam Houses]] on the [[Upper West Side]] of [[New York City]].<ref name="Newman 2022">{{cite news |last1=Newman |first1=Andy |title=Suing New York, Over and Over, for Transgender Rights |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/03/nyregion/suing-new-york-over-and-over-for-transgender-rights.html |access-date=3 July 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 3, 2022}}</ref><ref name="Imbler 2021">{{cite news |last1=Imbler |first1=Sabrina |title=The Perseverance of New York City's Wildflowers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/20/science/new-york-flowers-spring.html |access-date=3 July 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 20, 2021}}</ref> At age 9, she was placed in [[Foster care in the United States|foster care]] after her mother and grandmother died.<ref name="Newman 2022"/> She resided in a variety of group homes, including group homes for gay and transgender youth.<ref name="Newman 2022"/> In 2001, Lopez met [[Sylvia Rivera]] after she was referred by a social worker to the Transy House for housing.<ref name="Blanchard 2020" /> Lopez left high school before graduation and later completed a [[General Educational Development|GED]] and then attended college.<ref name="Newman 2022"/>


At age 13, she became the lead plaintiff in a 1999 class action lawsuit that alleged routine violence and psychological abuse was perpetrated against gay and lesbian children in New York foster care.<ref name="Newman 2022"/> After being placed in an all-male group home at age 16, she sued pursuant to the [[New York Human Rights Law]] and at age 17 won the right to wear skirts and dresses.<ref name="Newman 2022"/> At age 20, she lost a lawsuit she filed to have the cost of her [[Sex reassignment surgery|gender affirmation surgery]] covered by New York City, after winning at the trial court level and losing on appeal.<ref name="Newman 2022"/> Two years later, New York City changed its policy to begin covering surgery.<ref name="Newman 2022"/> Before her surgery case was completed, she sued the [[New York City Police Department]], alleging false arrests for loitering and assaults during "gender checks"; the case was settled with a $35,000 payment to Lopez, and she then went to Florida for her surgery.<ref name="Newman 2022"/>
At age 13, she became the lead plaintiff in a 1999 class action lawsuit that alleged routine violence and psychological abuse was perpetrated against gay and lesbian children in New York foster care.<ref name="Newman 2022"/> After being placed in an all-male group home at age 16, she sued pursuant to the [[New York Human Rights Law]] and at age 17 won the right to wear skirts and dresses.<ref name="Newman 2022"/> At age 20, she lost a lawsuit she filed to have the cost of her [[Sex reassignment surgery|gender affirmation surgery]] covered by New York City, after winning at the trial court level and losing on appeal.<ref name="Newman 2022"/> Two years later, New York City changed its policy to begin covering surgery.<ref name="Newman 2022"/> Before her surgery case was completed, she sued the [[New York City Police Department]], alleging false arrests for loitering and assaults during "gender checks"; the case was settled with a $35,000 payment to Lopez, and she then went to Florida for her surgery.<ref name="Newman 2022"/>


==Activism==
==Activism==
In 2006, at age 21, Lopez testified at a [[New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene|New York City Board of Health]] public hearing in support of a proposal to allow gender to be changed on birth certificates without gender affirmation surgery.<ref name="Cave 2006">{{cite news |last1=Cave |first1=Damien |title=New York Plans to Make Gender Personal Choice |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/nyregion/07gender.html |access-date=3 July 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 7, 2006}}</ref> In 2012, she lobbied for a reexamination of the 1992 death of Marsha P. Johnson, a Black transgender rights activist. The case was first considered a suicide, then in 2002 changed to "undetermined", and in 2012 the [[New York City Police Department|New York Police Department]] re-opened the case as possible homicide.<ref>{{Cite web|title = DA reopens unsolved 1992 case involving the 'saint of gay life'|url = http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/da-reopens-unsolved-1992-case-involving-saint-gay-life-article-1.1221742|website = NY Daily News|accessdate = 2015-06-15|date = 2012-12-16|first = Shayna|last = Jacobs}}</ref> In 2013, Lopez protested the misgendering of [[Islan Nettles]] during a vigil in honor of Nettles following her death after a violent assault.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Shapiro |first1=Lila |title=Shouting Disrupts Vigil For Murdered Transgender Woman Islan Nettles |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/islan-nettles_n_3832004 |access-date=3 July 2022 |work=[[HuffPost]] |date=February 2, 2016}}</ref>
In 2006, at age 21, Lopez testified at a [[New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene|New York City Board of Health]] public hearing in support of a proposal to allow gender to be changed on birth certificates without gender affirmation surgery.<ref name="Cave 2006">{{cite news |last1=Cave |first1=Damien |title=New York Plans to Make Gender Personal Choice |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/nyregion/07gender.html |access-date=3 July 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 7, 2006}}</ref> In 2012, she lobbied for a reexamination of the 1992 death of [[Marsha P. Johnson]], a Black transgender rights activist. The case was first considered a suicide, then in 2002 changed to "undetermined", and in 2012 the [[New York City Police Department|New York Police Department]] re-opened the case as a possible homicide.<ref>{{Cite web|title = DA reopens unsolved 1992 case involving the 'saint of gay life'|url = http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/da-reopens-unsolved-1992-case-involving-saint-gay-life-article-1.1221742|website = NY Daily News|accessdate = 2015-06-15|date = 2012-12-16|first = Shayna|last = Jacobs}}</ref> In 2013, Lopez protested the misgendering of [[Islan Nettles]] during a vigil in honor of Nettles following her death after a violent assault.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Shapiro |first1=Lila |title=Shouting Disrupts Vigil For Murdered Transgender Woman Islan Nettles |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/islan-nettles_n_3832004 |access-date=3 July 2022 |work=[[HuffPost]] |date=February 2, 2016}}</ref>


In 2014, Lopez renamed and relaunched the transgender rights group founded by [[Marsha P. Johnson]] and [[Sylvia Rivera]] as [[Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries]] (STAR) as Strategic Transgender Alliance for Radical Reform (STARR).<ref name="Newman 2022" /><ref name="Blanchard 2020">{{cite news |last1=Blanchard |first1=Sessi Kuwabara |title=At STAR House, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera Created a Home for Trans People |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3enva/star-house-sylvia-rivera-marsha-p-johnson |access-date=3 July 2022 |work=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] |date=June 8, 2020}}</ref> In 2014, she was quoted as a STARR activitst after the [[New York City Administration for Children's Services]] paid for gender reassignment surgery for a 21-year-old former foster care child pursuant to its policy to cover the costs that began in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Exclusive: A sex change operation is funded by New York City's Administration for Children's Services|url = http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-pays-sex-change-operation-article-1.1601167|website = [[New York Daily News]]|accessdate = 2015-06-15}}</ref>
In 2014, Lopez started the Strategic Transgender Alliance for Radical Reform (STARR) as a renamed version of the transgender rights group [[Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries]] (STAR), which had been founded by Marsha P. Johnson and [[Sylvia Rivera]].<ref name="Newman 2022" /><ref name="Blanchard 2020">{{cite news |last1=Blanchard |first1=Sessi Kuwabara |title=At STAR House, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera Created a Home for Trans People |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3enva/star-house-sylvia-rivera-marsha-p-johnson |access-date=3 July 2022 |work=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] |date=June 8, 2020}}</ref> In 2014, she expressed her support as a STARR activist after the [[New York City Administration for Children's Services]] (ACS) paid for [[Sex reassignment surgery|gender affirmation surgery]] for a 21-year-old former foster care child pursuant to the ACS policy to cover the costs that began in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Exclusive: A sex change operation is funded by New York City's Administration for Children's Services|url = http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-pays-sex-change-operation-article-1.1601167|website = [[New York Daily News]]| date=4 February 2014 |accessdate = 2015-06-15}}</ref>


Lopez has also advocated for specialized housing units for gay and transgender inmates in jails and prisons, including after the closure of the units at [[Rikers Island]] in December 2005.<ref name="Caruso 2005">{{cite news |last1=Caruso |first1=David B. |title=Jail for gay or transgender prisoners to close on Rikers Island |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/jail-for-gay-or-transgender-prisoners-to-close-on-rikers-island/ |access-date=3 July 2022 |work=[[Seattle Times]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=December 29, 2005}}</ref> In 2014, she announced the opening of a specialized housing unit at Rikers<ref>{{Cite news|last = Humm|first = Andy|title = Rikers Jail to Open Transgender Unit|url = https://gaycitynews.nyc/rikers-jail-open-transgender-unit/|work = [[Gay City News]]|date = August 6, 2014|accessdate = July 3, 2022|archive-date = March 4, 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304113535/http://gaycitynews.nyc/rikers-jail-open-transgender-unit/|url-status = dead}}</ref> after advocating for its creation.<ref name="Humm 2015">{{cite news |last1=Humm |first1=Andy |title=Horrors Persist for Trans Inmates at Rikers |url=https://gaycitynews.com/horrors-persist-for-trans-inmates-at-rikers/ |access-date=3 July 2022 |work=[[Gay City News]] |date=January 22, 2015}}</ref>
Lopez helped open the very first transgender housing unit for the largest prison in America, [[Rikers Island]], in 2014. She wrote on Facebook on July 30, 2014 that "the country's first exclusively transgender facility" would open within days.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Rikers Jail to Open Transgender Unit|url = http://gaycitynews.nyc/rikers-jail-open-transgender-unit/|website = gaycitynews.com|accessdate = 2015-07-24}}</ref> The new unit would help better protect transgender individuals as Lopez stated the housing unit was in response to "abuses so severe and taboo that most people (the general public and elected officials) believe these practices to be outlawed and or no longer practiced"; writing that "abuses included strip-searches by officers, beating and rape of trans individuals while incarcerated throughout the United States." citing [[Amnesty International|Amnesty International's]] 2003 report, "Stonewalled".


Between 2017 and 2018, Lopez filed multiple lawsuits related to her experience with Marsha's House, the only shelter for LGBTQ adults in New York City.<ref name="Newman 2022" /><ref name="Davis 2022">{{cite news |last1=Davis |first1=Emma |title=New York City's only shelter for LGBTQ adults is 'a nightmare,' ex-residents say |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/new-york-citys-only-shelter-lgbtq-adults-nightmare-ex-residents-say-rcna13358 |access-date=3 July 2022 |work=[[NBC News]] |date=February 9, 2022}}</ref> By 2019, the cases resulted in two confidential settlements for Lopez,<ref name="Davis 2022"/> and in 2022, New York City agreed to increase and improve access to shelters for trans people, to require staff to sign non-discrimination agreements, and to conduct training for staff.<ref name="Hogan 2022">{{cite news |last1=Hogan |first1=Gwynne |title=NYC Must Provide Separate Housing for Trans People in Homeless Shelters Under New Settlement |url=https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-must-provide-separate-housing-trans-people-homeless-shelters-under-new-settlement |access-date=3 July 2022 |work=[[Gothamist]] |date=January 3, 2022}}</ref>
Between 2017 and 2018, Lopez filed multiple lawsuits related to her experience with Marsha's House, which was the only shelter for LGBTQ adults in New York City at the time.<ref name="Newman 2022" /><ref name="Davis 2022">{{cite news |last1=Davis |first1=Emma |title=New York City's only shelter for LGBTQ adults is 'a nightmare,' ex-residents say |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/new-york-citys-only-shelter-lgbtq-adults-nightmare-ex-residents-say-rcna13358 |access-date=3 July 2022 |work=[[NBC News]] |date=February 9, 2022}}</ref><ref name="Haug 2021">{{cite news |last1=Haug |first1=Oliver |title=This trans activist just secured a vital win for unhoused trans people in New York City |url=https://xtramagazine.com/power/activism/mariah-lopez-trans-housing-215148 |access-date=4 July 2022 |work=[[Xtra Magazine]] |date=December 20, 2021}}</ref> By 2019, some of the cases resulted in two confidential settlements for Lopez,<ref name="Davis 2022"/> and in 2022, New York City agreed to increase and improve access to shelters for trans people, to require staff to sign non-discrimination agreements, and to conduct training for staff,<ref name="Hogan 2022">{{cite news |last1=Hogan |first1=Gwynne |title=NYC Must Provide Separate Housing for Trans People in Homeless Shelters Under New Settlement |url=https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-must-provide-separate-housing-trans-people-homeless-shelters-under-new-settlement |access-date=3 July 2022 |work=[[Gothamist]] |date=January 3, 2022}}</ref> after a case was certified as a [[class action]] lawsuit and the [[Center for Constitutional Rights]] joined in 2019 to represent the plaintiffs.<ref name="Newman 2022" /><ref name="Haug 2021"/> As part of the settlement agreement, the city is required to regularly report to Lopez on its compliance with the settlement terms.<ref name="Newman 2022" /><ref name="Haug 2021"/>


In 2021, Lopez advocated for real flowers to be planted in a park that was named for Marsha P. Johnson in 2020, after the state parks department proposed a plastic installation, and she proposed an additional memorial garden for Johnson, Rivera, and other transgender people at [[Gansevoort Peninsula]].<ref name="Imbler 2021"/><ref name="Duggan 2021" />
In 2021, Lopez advocated for real flowers to be planted in a park that was named for Marsha P. Johnson in 2020, after the state parks department proposed a plastic installation, and she proposed an additional memorial garden for Johnson, Rivera, and other transgender people at [[Gansevoort Peninsula]].<ref name="Imbler 2021"/><ref name="Duggan 2021" /> She has filed a lawsuit opposing a proposed beach development at the [[Christopher Street Pier]],<ref name="Nir 2012">{{cite news |last1=Nir |first1=Sarah Maslin |title=For Money or Just to Strut, Living Out Loud on a Transgender Stage |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/nyregion/in-west-village-living-out-loud-on-a-transgender-runway.html |access-date=3 July 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 24, 2012}}</ref> seeking an assessment of the historic significance of the area.<ref name="Newman 2022" />

By July 2022, she had filed 14 lawsuits against government agencies.<ref name="Newman 2022" />


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
Lopez is a Black-Latinx [[trans woman]].<ref name="Duggan 2021">{{cite news |last1=Duggan |first1=Kevin |title=State halts Marsha P. Johnson Park revamp following outcry by family, trans activists |url=https://www.brooklynpaper.com/marsha-p-johnson-park-construction-activists/ |access-date=3 July 2022 |work=[[The Brooklyn Paper]] |date=March 5, 2021}}</ref>
Lopez is a Black-Latina [[trans woman]].<ref name="Duggan 2021">{{cite news |last1=Duggan |first1=Kevin |title=State halts Marsha P. Johnson Park revamp following outcry by family, trans activists |url=https://www.brooklynpaper.com/marsha-p-johnson-park-construction-activists/ |access-date=3 July 2022 |work=[[The Brooklyn Paper]] |date=March 5, 2021}}</ref><ref name="Blanchard 2020" />


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==References==
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Mariah Lopez
Mariah Lopez
Lopez speaks at NYC LGBT community center in 2013
Born1985 (age 38–39)
New York City, United States
OccupationExecutive director
Known forTransgender rights activism
Websitestrategictransalliance.org

Mariah Lopez (born 1985) is an American activist based in New York City. She has been a plaintiff in multiple lawsuits related to civil and human rights, and has lobbied for legislation and greater policy protections for LGBTQ people. Lopez is the executive director for STARR (Strategic Trans Alliance for Radical Reform), a transgender rights advocacy group.[1]

Early life and education

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Lopez was born and raised in the Amsterdam Houses on the Upper West Side of New York City.[2][3] At age 9, she was placed in foster care after her mother and grandmother died.[2] She resided in a variety of group homes, including group homes for gay and transgender youth.[2] In 2001, Lopez met Sylvia Rivera after she was referred by a social worker to the Transy House for housing.[4] Lopez left high school before graduation and later completed a GED and then attended college.[2]

At age 13, she became the lead plaintiff in a 1999 class action lawsuit that alleged routine violence and psychological abuse was perpetrated against gay and lesbian children in New York foster care.[2] After being placed in an all-male group home at age 16, she sued pursuant to the New York Human Rights Law and at age 17 won the right to wear skirts and dresses.[2] At age 20, she lost a lawsuit she filed to have the cost of her gender affirmation surgery covered by New York City, after winning at the trial court level and losing on appeal.[2] Two years later, New York City changed its policy to begin covering surgery.[2] Before her surgery case was completed, she sued the New York City Police Department, alleging false arrests for loitering and assaults during "gender checks"; the case was settled with a $35,000 payment to Lopez, and she then went to Florida for her surgery.[2]

Activism

[edit]

In 2006, at age 21, Lopez testified at a New York City Board of Health public hearing in support of a proposal to allow gender to be changed on birth certificates without gender affirmation surgery.[5] In 2012, she lobbied for a reexamination of the 1992 death of Marsha P. Johnson, a Black transgender rights activist. The case was first considered a suicide, then in 2002 changed to "undetermined", and in 2012 the New York Police Department re-opened the case as a possible homicide.[6] In 2013, Lopez protested the misgendering of Islan Nettles during a vigil in honor of Nettles following her death after a violent assault.[7]

In 2014, Lopez started the Strategic Transgender Alliance for Radical Reform (STARR) as a renamed version of the transgender rights group Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), which had been founded by Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.[2][4] In 2014, she expressed her support as a STARR activist after the New York City Administration for Children's Services (ACS) paid for gender affirmation surgery for a 21-year-old former foster care child pursuant to the ACS policy to cover the costs that began in 2010.[8]

Lopez has also advocated for specialized housing units for gay and transgender inmates in jails and prisons, including after the closure of the units at Rikers Island in December 2005.[9] In 2014, she announced the opening of a specialized housing unit at Rikers[10] after advocating for its creation.[11]

Between 2017 and 2018, Lopez filed multiple lawsuits related to her experience with Marsha's House, which was the only shelter for LGBTQ adults in New York City at the time.[2][12][13] By 2019, some of the cases resulted in two confidential settlements for Lopez,[12] and in 2022, New York City agreed to increase and improve access to shelters for trans people, to require staff to sign non-discrimination agreements, and to conduct training for staff,[14] after a case was certified as a class action lawsuit and the Center for Constitutional Rights joined in 2019 to represent the plaintiffs.[2][13] As part of the settlement agreement, the city is required to regularly report to Lopez on its compliance with the settlement terms.[2][13]

In 2021, Lopez advocated for real flowers to be planted in a park that was named for Marsha P. Johnson in 2020, after the state parks department proposed a plastic installation, and she proposed an additional memorial garden for Johnson, Rivera, and other transgender people at Gansevoort Peninsula.[3][15] She has filed a lawsuit opposing a proposed beach development at the Christopher Street Pier,[16] seeking an assessment of the historic significance of the area.[2]

By July 2022, she had filed 14 lawsuits against government agencies.[2]

Personal life

[edit]

Lopez is a Black-Latina trans woman.[15][4]

References

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  1. ^ "The 2021 Pride Power 100: 51-100". City & State. June 20, 2021. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Newman, Andy (July 3, 2022). "Suing New York, Over and Over, for Transgender Rights". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  3. ^ a b Imbler, Sabrina (March 20, 2021). "The Perseverance of New York City's Wildflowers". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  4. ^ a b c Blanchard, Sessi Kuwabara (June 8, 2020). "At STAR House, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera Created a Home for Trans People". Vice. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  5. ^ Cave, Damien (November 7, 2006). "New York Plans to Make Gender Personal Choice". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  6. ^ Jacobs, Shayna (2012-12-16). "DA reopens unsolved 1992 case involving the 'saint of gay life'". NY Daily News. Retrieved 2015-06-15.
  7. ^ Shapiro, Lila (February 2, 2016). "Shouting Disrupts Vigil For Murdered Transgender Woman Islan Nettles". HuffPost. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  8. ^ "Exclusive: A sex change operation is funded by New York City's Administration for Children's Services". New York Daily News. 4 February 2014. Retrieved 2015-06-15.
  9. ^ Caruso, David B. (December 29, 2005). "Jail for gay or transgender prisoners to close on Rikers Island". Seattle Times. Associated Press. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  10. ^ Humm, Andy (August 6, 2014). "Rikers Jail to Open Transgender Unit". Gay City News. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2022.
  11. ^ Humm, Andy (January 22, 2015). "Horrors Persist for Trans Inmates at Rikers". Gay City News. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  12. ^ a b Davis, Emma (February 9, 2022). "New York City's only shelter for LGBTQ adults is 'a nightmare,' ex-residents say". NBC News. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  13. ^ a b c Haug, Oliver (December 20, 2021). "This trans activist just secured a vital win for unhoused trans people in New York City". Xtra Magazine. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
  14. ^ Hogan, Gwynne (January 3, 2022). "NYC Must Provide Separate Housing for Trans People in Homeless Shelters Under New Settlement". Gothamist. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  15. ^ a b Duggan, Kevin (March 5, 2021). "State halts Marsha P. Johnson Park revamp following outcry by family, trans activists". The Brooklyn Paper. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  16. ^ Nir, Sarah Maslin (July 24, 2012). "For Money or Just to Strut, Living Out Loud on a Transgender Stage". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
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