City Cast Houston host Lisa Gray writes:
“It was a special pleasure for me to interview Phyllis Frye, who’s the subject of a new biography, “Phyllis Frye and the Fight for Transgender Rights.” In 1976, when Phyllis began living full-time as a woman, wearing a dress in public meant that she was breaking a Houston law. Her tires were slashed, the house was egged, and on Christmas and Easter, obscene phone calls clogged the phone. Her wife worried that Phyllis might be killed."
“I met her in 2001. Even LGBT groups such as the Human Rights Campaign shied away from trans issues then, but Phyllis persisted — leading a handful of picketers to protest the HRC, and composing path-breaking legal briefs from the “law office” in her bedroom. I worried that her cause was going nowhere. But I thought then — and still think now — that she’s one of the bravest people I’ve ever met.”
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