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CEYENNE DOROSHOW for GAYLETTER photographed by Camila Falquez (2024)

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Ceyenne Doroshow reflects on speaking at the march and witnessing history.

On June 14, an estimated 15,000 people gathered in Brooklyn to say Black trans lives matter. Called the Brooklyn Liberation by organizers, people took the podium at the rally to speak in support of Black trans people and against the epidemic of violence the community faces. Here, Ceyenne Doroshow, founder of GLITS, reflects on speaking at the historic rally in an essay as told to writer Harron Walker.

When I looked out from the podium at everyone that had gathered outside of the Brooklyn Museum on Sunday to stand up for Black trans lives, I realized that I was looking at history.

I was raised there. I first got involved in sex work two blocks from Grand Army Plaza. As a queer youth, I never thought I’d see that many people, especially white people, standing up for my community. I was so emotional, so overwhelmed. Seeing all the old people, the young people, the gorgeous little kids, and all the queer babies — it was epic. People are waking up. They’re finally seeing and feeling our pain.

I’ll tell you what I told that crowd of thousands: I love you. I love all of you. I may not know you, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t love you. We need to be nice to each other, and we need to love each other. This work is about all of us, the sustainability of Black trans women, of lesbian, queer, whatever—the whole alphabet! I want other trans women to not only live in their truth but to live in their excellence, every single day. I want our trans brothers to find their footing and feel supported. I want all my trans family to dream, to dream as big as they can, and then live to see their dreams realized. We’ve been a broken people for so long. Society has neither given us our rewards, nor dealt with our deaths in a way where we felt held. We’re finally getting to a place where we have a chance to thrive, but we can’t do that alone, not with that horrible first family leading this world. They aren’t taking care of us, so we have to take care of us. We are all that we have.

For years, I’ve watched my community get criminalized, locked up like animals and forgotten about in jails that should never have existed in the first place. I’ve watched my community get used, even by the nonprofits that claim to be on our side. How many Black trans women work within those organizations? How many Black trans women supervisors or directors do they have? There are so many organizations that fail when it comes to taking care of or lifting up Black trans women because they see us as a number or a funding resource before they see us as people.

That’s why we’ve had to create our own organizations, to give ourselves equity and ownership as the leaders we’ve always been: The Okra Project, the Marsha P. Johnson Institute, For the Gworls, Black Trans Femmes in the Arts. I, myself, am the founder and executive director of GLITS, that’s Gays and Lesbians living in a Transgender Society, where I work to create sustainable housing — sustainability, period — for Black trans people. Over the past week, all of these babies—these millennials, zennials, or whatever you want to call them — came out of the woodwork to help GLITS raise over $1 million to secure housing in New York City, so that we can start to build the Black trans utopia we deserve.

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Jack Doroshow, 78, Drag Pageant Impresario, Dies

“Flawless was the single most influential person in my development as a human being and artist,” Zackary Drucker, a transgender artist and a producer of the Amazon show “Transparent,” said by email. “I can’t imagine anyone else believing in me with the passion and dedication that she did.” Ms. Drucker met Mr. Doroshow in 2001.

The performance artist Taylor Macfirst met Flawless Sabrina in 2002…

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How ‘Flawless’ Became a Feminist Declaration

To be beautiful is to be pleasing to others, but to be ‘flawless’ is a statement of radical confidence: It means pleasing yourself.

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How ‘Flawless’ Became a Feminist Declaration

To be beautiful is to be pleasing to others, but to be ‘flawless’ is a statement of radical confidence: It means pleasing yourself.

Re-read this again this morning. We visited a true Texas summer institution--the water park--recently, and while meandering down some “rapids” I began tallying the women wearing this word. 

Thus planning to watch some Bey videos now instead of cleaning up the brunched-out kitchen.

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March 7th Red Umbrella Diaries: Performer Highlight - Ceyenne Doroshow

Ceyenne Doroshow was raised in Brooklyn and fought very hard for her day-to-day survival as a transgender girl. Escaping into the kitchen and learning how to cook became a source of power for Ceyenne, and to this day she uses food to bring people together and get over their differences. Now a grown lady, she has been blessed to be an advocate, caseworker, program coordinator, advisor, parent, grandparent, ex-escort, lover, and friend.

  In Cooking in Heels, Ceyenne Doroshow offers up 40 Southern-style favorites with a Caribbean twist. As a transgender woman who was inspired to write her book while serving prison time for a prostitution conviction, Ceyenne might not seem like the most likely representative of home cooked family values. But her book, which is peppered with good humor and begins with the story of her life, shows that food and love are the ties that bind, and family is what you make it.

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Come see Ceyenne perform at the March 7th Red Umbrella Diaries!

Special Event: hosted and curated by Anna Saini 

Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City 

Doors at 7 pm, event from 8-10 21 and up – FREE