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Victoria Cruz is an American LGBT rights activist and retired domestic violence counselor. A contemporary of activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, she is featured in the 2017 documentary The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson. [1]
Oct 3, 2017 · The third is about a lesser-known figure: Victoria Cruz, a queer trans woman and former activist who knew both Rivera and Johnson. She shares precious first-person detail about their...
May 31, 2023 · Victoria “Miss Vickie” Cruz is a living legend and a well-known part of AVP history. Miss Vickie, a self-identified Stonewall veteran, broke a lot of barriers, including being the first transgender woman of color to receive the National Crime Victim Service Award from then-Attorney General Eric Holder.
#LivesAtStake with Imara Jones: Here is the conversation that we had on August 26, 2020, with legendary activist Victoria Cruz, about her legendary friend, M...
Jun 19, 2019 · Stonewall Survivor Victoria Cruz on the Future of the LGBTQ Movement. Photography by Mamadi Doumbouya. Fifty years after the uprising, trans activist Victoria Cruz has a message for her...
Jul 29, 2017 · Victoria Cruz, the focus of David France's "The Death & Life of Marsha P Johnson" & a historic fighter against trans injustice spoke at the Marsha P Johnson memorial service on Christopher...
Mar 9, 2022 · 40 Change Makers: Victoria Cruz. This interview has been shortened and condensed for clarity. Victoria Cruz started out the way many at AVP do — as a client. She decided to get involved because her experience working with AVP’s kind and nonjudgemental coordinators left her feeling transformed.
Apr 18, 2022 · Victoria Cruz, their contemporaries, is less well-known. Cruz was born in Guánica, Puerto Rico, and relocated to Brooklyn with her family when she was very young. Cruz took charge of her identity as a young adult, obtaining hormones and gender reassignment surgery, according to Cruz, who claims she never concealed any aspect of her ...
Victoria Cruz is a passionate advocate for survivors of violence, a charismatic community leader, a gifted counselor, and a survivor in every sense of the word. She is a living model of empowerment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and HIV-affected (LGBTQH) survivors of violence who transformed herself from victim, to ...
The film centers on activist Victoria Cruz's investigation into Johnson's death in 1992, which was initially ruled a suicide by police despite suspicious circumstances. [1] It is France's second film, following How to Survive a Plague (2012).
