Alexander John Goodrum (1960–2002) was an African American

African American

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 transgender

Transgender

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 civil rights

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 activist

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. He was the founder and director of TGNet Arizona. He was a board member of the Tucson

Tucson, Arizona

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 GLBT Commission and the Funding Exchange's OUT Fund, which allocates an annual grant named after Goodrum to LGBT

LGBT

LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...

 community organizing

Community organizing

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 projects. Goodrum was bisexual, disabled

Disability

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, and a transman. Alexander's work is currently carried on by the Southern Arizona Gender Alliance (SAGA).

Goodrum committed suicide while committed to a psychiatric ward on September 28, 2002.http://www.sagatucson.org/tgnetaz/memorial.htm

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