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'''Genny Beemyn''', Ph.D. is a historian, writer, and LGBTQ advocate. They are the director of Stonewall Center at the University of Massachusetts and co-chair of [[International Pronouns Day]].<ref name="dail_Ston">{{Cite web |title=Stonewall Center Director Genny Beemyn receives first Lou Sullivan Torch Award |last=Pietrewicz |first=Ana |work=Massachusetts Daily Collegian |date=23 October 2019 |access-date=8 April 2020 |url= https://dailycollegian.com/2019/10/stonewall-center-director-genny-beemyn-receives-first-lou-sullivan-torch-award/}}</ref> Their books include ''A Queer Capital: A History of Gay Life in Washington, D.C.'' (Routledge, 2014) and, with Sue Rankin, ''The Lives of Transgender People'' (Columbia University Press, 2011).<ref name="tcl">{{Cite web |title=Interview with Genny Beemyn- Author of "The Lives of Transgender People" |author= |work=The Critical Lede |date=August 26, 2012 |access-date=April 30, 2020 |url= https://thecriticallede.com/097-interview-with-genny-beemyn-author-of-the-lives-of-transgender-people/}}</ref>  

They began openly identifying as [[transgender]] in the late 1990s.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Trans Youth: Introduction|year=2005|journal=Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education|volume=3|issue=1|pages=3-5|doi=10.1300/J367v03n01_02|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J367v03n01_02}}</ref> They realized they identified as neither male nor female after reading [[Leslie Feinberg]]'s ''Stone Butch Blues''.<ref>Beemyn, Genny. “Being Genderqueer Before It Was a Thing.” ''Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity'', edited by Micah Rajunov and Scott Duane, Columbia University Press, New York; Chichester, West Sussex, 2019, pp. 41–47. ''JSTOR'', www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/raju18532.11. Accessed 5 Dec. 2020.</ref>  

In 2015 Beemyn was given a Research and Assessment Award from the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals.<ref>{{cite web|title=Genny Beemyn – Research and Assessment Award|author=Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals|url=https://lgbtcampus.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/beemyn%20-%20award.pdf}}</ref> In 2019, they were given the Lou Sullivan Torch Award for their work in scholarship and advocacy for transgender inclusion on college campuses.<ref name="dail_Ston" />