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Marsha P. Johnson photographed in likely the 1970s or 1980s, in her apartment shared with roommate Randy Wicker.
ID - Marsha is a Black woman with short cropped dark hair, a radiantly wide smile, and a limp wrist sat in a chair and facing the camera over her shoulder.
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Interview with a Gay Activist (1972)
In 1972, gays answering blunt questions on television was new territory. I was the first homosexual to appear on television, full-faced & undisguised, in NYC on The Les Crane Show in 1965. I went to Chicago to be on The Irv Kupcinent Show in the 1960s because there was no homosexual willing to appear on TV in Chicago. I used the first money I made in the hippie-oriented anti-war slogan-button business to buy the first portable Sony CV video system. Using that equipment saved this one Pittsburgh appearance from the trash-bin of history.
— Randy Wicker
I want to complain about something.
It’s kind of sad that Wikipedia doesn’t include transage identities when people have done cool stuff.
I was trying to learn more about Randy Wicker and Chris Bartlett. Two people that are transage as far as I know. Randy Wicker was one of the first if not the first people to identify as transage (in 2008), and Chris Bartlett called himself YtO transage on Twitter in 2010, making him potentially one of the first YtO transage people. Also, both of these people are relatively famous outside of being transage, enough to have Wikipedia articles.
Neither of their Wikipedia articles have any mention of them being transage. Both of their articles talk about them as LGBTQ+ activists. Chris Bartlett’s article talks about his work on HIV/AIDS advocacy and advocacy around other health issues affecting gay and mspec men. Randy Wicker’s talks about him as an activist for legalizing human cloning and for the rights of human clones. Neither page mentions them as transage anywhere.
It might be that being transage is a small part of their identity and there’s a lot to talk about with them. But I can’t shake the feeling that if all the stuff they did was actually bad things instead of them being cool people, their transage identification would be plastered everywhere.
I know this is an issue with a lot of minorities. In particular, there’s the issue of how Wikipedia will bend over backwards to call Jewish people “born to Jewish parents” or “raised in a Jewish family” rather than “Jewish”. But still. It’s sad that the fact that they’re transage is nowhere.
Both of their transage identification seemed sincere. As far as I know neither have taken it back. With Randy Wicker, his Blogspot profile still lists him as transage. So I wish it was on Wikipedia. Just so we felt less alone. Knew we kept some really cool company.
The most destructive force in the life of the homosexual
Del Martin addressing the American Psychiatric Association in 1971, extract from The Gay Crusaders, Kay Tobin and Randy Wicker, 1972
Here is the context:
Del flew to Washington, D.C. to give an earful to the American Psychiatric Association. Del was one of a gay panel asked to address the APA’s 1971 annual meeting after a gay liberation group had disrupted and denounced the APA meeting in 1970. She told the psychiatrists: “Before I arrived here for the APA meetings I was convinced that in this Twentieth Century the psychiatric profession has replaced the Church and the Law as the most destructive force in the life of the homosexual. My experience here this week has reinforced that opinion and has radicalized me, as a Lesbian, even more than ever before. "In the guise of ‘helping,’ and particularly in the guise of ‘Science’ (which is accepted in today’s American society as the Ultimate or God) you have perpetrated a gigantic hoax. You stand behind the cloak of academia and ‘detached objectivity’ as providing the only valid data on homosexuality, and until tonight have ignored the experience of the Lesbian or the male homosexual as subjective and therefore invalid. You have formulated your theories, your conjectures and rationalizations on the basis of the value judgment that heterosexuality, because it is procreative, is the only acceptable form of sexual behavior or life style. But worst of all, you have misled the public into believing that your theories constitute fact — scientific fact."
from the digital transgender archive - "photographs of Sylvia Rivera protesting the 1996 "Stonewall" film with a group including Ivan Valentin, Cocoa Rodriguez, Randy Wicker, and Martin Duberman" & "a photograph of Sylvia Rivera with Cocoa Rodriguez holding Stonewall posters protesting the 1996 Stonewall film premiere"
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September 19, 1964. The first gay picket! 10 women and men (4 gay and 6 straight supporters) picket at the U.S. Army induction center on Whitehall Street in lower Manhattan to protest Arn1Y rejection of gays and issuance of 1ess-thanhonorable discharges. (“We Don’t Dodge the Draft—The Draft Dodges Us”) - Barbara Gittings [download Queer America: a GLBT history of the 20th Century]
A photograph of Cocoa Rodriguez and a friend posed outside of Randy Wicker's store Uplift Lighting in New York City. Both are wearing black dresses, and Cocoa's friend is carrying a purse in the shape of Betty Boop's head (1996)
