Major! Page #6
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prison located
in western New York.
It ended with the bloodiest
prison confrontation
in American history.
For five days, thirteen hundred
prisoners rebelled,
took over the prison,
and held forty guards hostage.
They made a list of demands,
the prisoners,
including improvements in
living co
and training opportunities
and centered into negotiations
with state officials.
The negotiations failed
and state police
and National Guard troops
seized the prison.
over they killed
forty-three individuals,
including ten of the hostages.
I met Black and the guys
who were from Attica
who had got the riots
started when they sent them
to Dannemora to the hole
where they had been housing me.
That's when I got to meet them
and talk with them,
and developed some
very lasting
and good relationships
with them.
They opened my eyes
to different things that were
going on
as to how I was helping
the system to survive
and not helping
my community survive.
I was just talking to Miss Major
a few minutes ago
and I noticed in the bio
that she became politicized
in Attica and I said
I didn't realize that.
And then we started talking
and she was pointing out
that Black, Big Black,
Frank Smith was
the one who really encouraged
her to think about
all of these issues
in a much broader way.
And so I said well, of course,
it makes so much sense.
We're all connected, aren't we?
Yes dear?
Hi Miss Major, in Attica,
your acceptance, Frank BB Smith,
was my stepfather.
Oh how wonderful!
So you're like the first
trans person outside
of him accepting me,
that I probably heard
a story about him.
Listen, I'm thinking about
driving up so you
and I can go see Black's...
When?
I'd like for you to
take me to his grave.
I want to give him my respect
and let him know that I met you.
Oh, yeah.
He was such an important
part of my life.
By the time my mother
got with him, he was
already doing law work,
he had got out of
That was after Attica.
Yeah, that was after Attica.
I had been hearing about her
for years, but I had never
actually had the experience
of meeting her, one,
but ever hearing
this story about Attica.
All I knew was Frank
was monumental
in this whole riot thing.
But that's as far as it went.
Frank had never told me,
he just said,
"I had a friend
who was like you,
and believe it or not,
I was locked up."
And it wa
'cause I ran away --
he came and got me; actually,
he found me, don't ask me how.
But he found me, and he
sat me down and he explained,
"You're a girl."
And I went, "Huh?"
and he said, "Well,
you can't tell your mother this,
but that's what's
going on inside you.
And you want to live this,
that's why you're doing
certain things your mother
doesn't agree to.
Like wearing her clothes,
like wearing her heels."
None of it made sense to me,
he kind of put
that picture together,
and got me back into the house.
But somehow him telling
my mother how much stuff
he had went through in Attica
all related to Miss Major.
Yeah.
And their friendship wasn't
something that was sexual,
it was a real friendship.
I don't know, maybe it was.
Yeah, no -- we just talked --
You see, I had to
jump back and look --
You never know up in Attica.
Yeah, we talked a lot,
because he's the one
who made me politically aware
of all the sh*t that was
going on, and what I can do
to get my girls together
to go through it.
So while he did what
he was doing with
the Five-Percenters
and the Muslims;
I was working with
the transgender girls in prison.
And we were together,
he was really
a wonderful, wonderful man.
How were they with
the transgender girls in prison?
Shady as f***ing sh*t.
So, normal.
At first, when I met Major,
he basically was a loner.
He did not trust
many people at all.
He always thought
that somebody was after him,
or somebody had a hidden agenda.
But little by little,
he began to open up.
I was doing drag shows,
and it was with this group,
and one of the guys in the group
introduced me to Debbie,
and then Debbie and I slowly
became really close friends,
and then we started
hanging out and stuff.
Major always tried to build up
my self-esteem,
as a young, Black woman.
Major did a lot of shows.
He was with a group
called The Cherries.
And I use
putting on the makeup.
As a matter of fact,
I think that's where I learned
how to apply makeup myself.
It was what I would call
a really cool relationship
that developed
into so much more.
It developed into camaraderie,
and then it developed into love,
and several years later,
I would say a good
five years later, we decided
there should be something
of both of us in this world.
And we decided it was time
that we moved in together,
and we started a life together.
At the time I had never slept
with any women at all.
And we were just sitting
one day looking out the window
at the Hudson, and
the sailboats on it and stuff.
I was holding her,
and something came up
and she started crying,
I told her not to cry,
I kissed her on the cheek,
and bingo.
You know.
So it wasn't
as horrible as I had
heard it was going to be,
so I was like, oh,
this isn't as bad as
they told me, child
I'm going again.
And the outcome was
we had a beautiful,
bouncing baby boy in 1978.
And we still co-parent.
Now, Chri
but whenever there is
something going on in his life,
Major and I, we talk about it.
This is what parents do.
No matter whether you are
transgendered or straight,
bisexual, no matter what.
You have responsibilities.
his responsibilities
when it comes to being a father.
Major is an excellent father.
Yeah,
he's just the light of my life.
And he was born heavy.
You know how babies are
all wrinkly and skinny and ugly
and they go "oh they're
so cute," they look like
little rodents, you know
what I mean? Ew!
Christopher was a baybee,
and his face was all smooth
and lovely and kissable,
it was just so wonderful.
I mean who expected me
to have a child, you know?
That was just
the most amazing thing going.
And I lost a lot of
girlfriends in New York,
when I told them
that Debbie was pregnant.
They just thought as if
I had slapped them
in the face or something,
you know what I mean.
We moved out here to California,
He handled flying so cool.
I got the kind of carriage
for him w
And so people, if they
looked they would see
I had breasts and a baby.
And a beard.
And was in a man's suit.
Debbie moved out here,
we stayed together for a while,
and then it just didn't work,
you know, and so she went
back East to New York.
And she left Christopher
with me.
You know, and I felt
so honore
So we drove there together,
all three of us.
And I stayed until she got
Then I came back out here
to California and then
when I got back out here
I thought okay, raising a baby
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