TransNation: African American Delegate Makes History
Posted on May 9, 2008
Filed Under Gay Wired, News
The way the Democratic race is going, the party could bestow unprecedented power to delegates to determine the party’s official candidate. When party bigwigs meet in Denver, they’ll share the room with two transgender activists. The first, Diego Sanchez was appointed by the DNC chairman himself Howard Dean. The second, Marisa Richmond, is the party’s first openly transgender African-American delegate.
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