Donna Personna (born 1946) is a transgender rights activist[1] and fine art artist, who focuses in photography, painting, and mixed media. Personna was friends with The Cockettes and she played a part in Elevator Girls in Bondage.[2] Personna co-wrote a play about the Compton Cafeteria riot, one of the first recorded LGBT-related riots in United States history, and marking the beginning of transgender activism in San Francisco.[3]
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Biography
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Personna was born in San Jose, California, and moved to San Francisco at age 19.[4]
Personna has served on the boards of the Trans March and Transgender Day of Remembrance.[5]
In 2018, she raised San Francisco's first Transgender flag at San Francisco City Hall with Mayor London Breed. In 2019, she was a Grand marshal of the San Francisco Pride Parade.[6]
Filmography
editPersonna was the subject of the 2013 Iris Prize-winning short film “My Mother" and was featured in the 2014 film "Beautiful by Night."[7] She was interviewed for the 2018 documentary, "Ruminations."[8]
Personna's story is a major part of “The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot,” an interactive play produced by the Tenderloin Museum.[9]
References
edit- ^ "'Denying our very humanity:' Trump proposal wounds Bay Area transgender community". www.msn.com. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ^ "SF Pride Lifetime Achievement Honoree: Donna Personna | Commonwealth Club". www.commonwealthclub.org. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ^ Boyd, Nan Alamilla (2004). "San Francisco" in the Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America, Ed. Marc Stein. Vol. 3. Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 71–78.
- ^ "With six decades of stories, Tenderloin icon Donna Personna is having a moment – SFChronicle.com". www.sfchronicle.com. 2017-10-31. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ^ "Donna Personna". San Francisco Pride. 2019-04-14. Archived from the original on 2019-07-05. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ^ Levin, Sam (2019-06-21). "Compton's Cafeteria riot: a historic act of trans resistance, three years before Stonewall". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ^ "Donna Personna – Compton's Cafeteria Riot". Archived from the original on 2019-07-05. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ^ Ruminations, retrieved 2019-07-05
- ^ "The Donna Personna Portraits Project". Tenderloin Museum. Archived from the original on 2019-07-05. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
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