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Despite the fame and notoriety she experienced in her lifetime, not enough people today know about the trailblazing Black trans artist Sir Lady Java. Fortunately, thanks to a newly published zine by ...

Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is ...

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Sir Lady Java, a pioneering transgender performer and activist who boldly challenged discriminatory laws and police harassment as a star of the Los Angeles nightclub scene in the 1960s, died Saturday ...