Digital Transgender Archive

Camille Moran Papers: Folder 2

A program by the Community United Against Violence about their awards, some words from people in the organization and evening schedule. Specifically, this mentions Camille Moran getting a youth advocate award and a short section on her life as a psychiatric abuse survivor. Additionally, there is a Resolution of Appreciation from the Names Project and a couple pictures of Camille with others. Camille Moran was a transgender poet and painter, as well as an activist who works against psychiatric abuse of queer and trans youth. As a six-year-old child in the 1950s, Moran was institutionalized for years because her parents were disturbed by her femininity. She was given electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which left her with headaches, memory loss, learning disability, and seizures. As an adult, Moran advocated for the removal of Gender Identity Disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), on the grounds that the diagnosis could easily lead to similar abuse. Moran was also a member of the San Francisco LGBT Community Center Project Board and served on the Transgender Task Force of the Human Rights Commission. This item comes from the Camille Moran papers at the GLBT Historical Society.