Overview

• House of GG announced that she died Monday in Little Rock at home, surrounded by loved ones, after recently entering hospice care.
• She founded the House of GG and launched The Oasis in Little Rock in 2019 as a sanctuary offering rest, support and community.
• A participant in the 1969 Stonewall uprising, she became a defining voice for trans people marginalized within broader LGBTQ movements.
• Her advocacy included frontline HIV/AIDS caregiving in the early 1980s and driving San Francisco’s first mobile needle exchange.
• She served as the first executive director of the Transgender Gender-Variant and Intersex Justice Project, mentoring incarcerated trans people, and the Human Rights Campaign issued a formal tribute praising her guidance.