Gwendolyn Howard interview

Interview with Reverend Dr. Gwendolyn Howard by Virginia Thomas. Reverend Dr. Howard is a transgender woman, Unitarian Universalist minister, social worker, and activist. Topics in order of discussion include: coming out as a transgender woman; losing her job as a Unitarian Universalist minister; gender transition; attending an MSW program at Boston University; working in a day treatment program for people with mental illnesses; being a trans therapist and providing therapy to trans patients; activism with the Rhode Island Alliance for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights; working with PFLAG Providence; the struggle for LGBTQ+ civil rights in Rhode Island; changes in language around transgender issues and identity; the struggle for marriage equality in Rhode Island; aging parents; serving on the Board of the TGI Network of RI; transgender and nonbinary youth; social isolation; and the need for trans community. This interview was created as part of a series of LGBTQIA interviews in a project managed by Dr. Virginia Thomas and funded through an Equity Action grant from the Rhode Island Foundation.