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When I lived in a building in the Tenderloin with many prostitutes and transgenders, I saw a lot of drug abuse and slow suicide among my transgender neighbors due to their minority distress and identity confusion. For the 1.5 million transgender people in America living in a majority heterosexual culture, minority stress takes the form of discrimination, victimization, harassment, and maltreatment. This trans friend, who prostituted to afford her drugs, I often helped tie up during her heroin use. All of them I have lost touch with today – probably victims of the first aids wave in the 80’es.
340 Eddy St., San Francisco – December 1974
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