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| pronouns=[[they/them]]<ref name="tolerance">{{Cite web |title=Podcast Transcript: The Experiences of Trans People (pdf) |last=Rupp|first=Leila |work=tolerance.org |date=June 2019 |access-date=30 April 2020 |url= https://www.tolerance.org/sites/default/files/2019-06/TT-Queer-America-Podcast-Transcript-Episode-Two-The-Experiences-of-Trans-People-June-2019.pdf}}</ref><ref>http://www.umass.edu/stonewall/about-us/staff</ref> | |||
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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). | |||
In 2019, Beemyn was given the Lou Sullivan Torch Award for their work in scholarship and advocacy for transgender inclusion on college campuses.<ref name="dail_Ston" /> | In 2019, Beemyn was given the Lou Sullivan Torch Award for their work in scholarship and advocacy for transgender inclusion on college campuses.<ref name="dail_Ston" /> | ||
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