Interview with Billy Navarro Jr.

Billy Navarro Jr. is a mixed race, genderqueer trans man from Mound, MN. In this oral history, he shares his experiences with being raised on a farm; learning about community care from his grandmother; working to get access to hormones; the language and labels we use to discuss our identity; homelessness; drag family; living beyond a binary; and relationships with his birth and chosen families. He is one of the founders of the Shot Clinic in the Twin Cities, a community group that works to provide assistance with hormone shots for transgender individuals, as well as educate doctors and healthcare providers about transgender care. Navarro shares his experiences about coming out in his youth and the family he found at District 202 in the Twin Cities. He is a community organizer and activist and works/has worked with and for many causes including the Free CeCe campaign, the Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition, Transgender Youth Support Network, Out for Equity, Rainbow Health Initiative, the Minnesota AIDS Project, and many others. He discusses things such as racism within the LGBT community and transphobia within the LGB community. Navarro shares his hopes for trans communities in the future and talks about the importance of having access to things that allow people to survive and thrive in the world.

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Identifier: fb494855q
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Navarro, Billy Jr.
Contributor(s): Jenkins, Andrea
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Feb. 19, 2016
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Beyond the Binary
Black Lives Matter (BLM)
CeCe McDonald
Clothing Shelf
District 202
Free CeCe
Gender Gear Program
Holly Wood
La Clinica
Laverne Cox
Marsha P. Johnson
Michelle Alexander
Minnesota Aids Project
Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition
Out for Equity
Rainbow Health Initiative
Shot Clinic
Sylvia Rivera
Transgender Youth Support Network
Places: Minnesota > Hennepin County > City of Minneapolis > Minneapolis
Minnesota > Hennepin > City of Mound > Mound
Topic(s): Drag
Drag community
Ethnic groups
Families
Femininities
FtMs
Gender diversity
Genderfluid identity
Homelessness
Hormone therapy
Jews
Racism
Roman catholicism
Transgender people
Transphobia
Volunteering
Resource Type: Moving image
Text
Language: English
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