Yoseñio Lewis Oral History

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OUTWORDS interview with Yoseñio Lewis, conducted by Jack MacCarthy on December 17, 2021 in San Francisco. Yoseñio is a transgender rights activist, educator, musician, and writer. Some of his first work as an activist in San Francisco was on policy changes that would allow trans people to receive insurance without restrictions on transgender care. Yoseñio is one of the inaugural members of the Trans 100 List, and a founding member of “The TransAms,” an all-transgender barbershop quartet. He also helps to train medical professionals on how to treat trans people and set up an HIV/AIDS education group at a halfway house for federal offenders.

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Identifier: 5h73pw404
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: OUTWORDS
Creator(s): Lewis, Yoseñio
Contributor(s): MacCarthy, Jack
Price, Astra
Publisher: OUTWORDS
Date Created: Dec. 17, 2021
Dates Covered: Oct. 1959 to Dec. 17, 2021
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): The TransAms
Yoseñio Lewis
Places: California > San Francisco County > San Francisco
Rhode Island > Newport > City of Newport
Topic(s): AIDS education
Latino/a/x transgender people
Older transgender people
Trans men
Transgender political activists
Resource Type: Moving image
Language: English
Rights: Copyright undetermined
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