✊🏾 Happy Trans Awareness Week! Today we honor queer icon “Mama” Gloria Allen, a local legend who paved the way for many Chicagoans with her charm school for transgender youth. | EnriqueLimon👇
There to present “Mama” Gloria Allen with a special “living legend” distinction during 2014’s Trans 100 Awards,executive producer Janet Mock expressed her admiration toward her fellow trans rights activist to a packed house inside Rogers Park’s Mayne Stage.
Still visibly moved, Allen then thanked everyone in attendance. “And I thank God for the transgender people, because we are a blessing.” Established shortly thereafter, charm school topics ranged from table manners to professional development; makeup lessons to dating advice. Allen’s legacy and indomitable spirit lives on in the lives of the many she touched, as well as in the cover of, a book celebrating transgender and gender nonconforming elders; Philip Dawkins’s 2015 playThe GLAAD-nominated documentary paints an intimate portrait of the iconic figure, which explores a double narrative about a mother’s love: the love and acceptance Allen’s mother—a Jet magazine centerfold model considered to by some to be “the Black Marilyn Monroe”—had for her, and the love that...
“Gloria was the best teller of her story . . . and she tells it better than anybody,” Fisher says, adding that there was little need to bring in more voices to talk about her relevance or offer additional context.
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