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Stonewall Veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Returns Home to Hospice Care

Her organization reports she is home on hospice following a hospital stay for sepsis complicated by a blood clot.

Overview

  • The Griffin-Gracy Educational and Historical Center said she is resting comfortably at home under hospice care.
  • Her partner, Beck Witt Major, posted Saturday that she is comfortable and surrounded by love.
  • She was recently hospitalized for about 10 days in late September for sepsis and a blood clot.
  • Griffin-Gracy is a seminal trans rights leader who took part in the 1969 Stonewall Uprising and later led the Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project.
  • She founded the House of GG retreat in Arkansas and, despite a 2008 kidney transplant and a 2019 stroke, continued public advocacy through summer 2025.