DUBUQUE TRANSGENDER

DUBUQUE TRANSGENDER. Founded by Rachael Ferraro, the organization in 2016 was working with CO DUBUQUE to plan workshops to help LGBTQ+ people in the community. (1)

According to their Facebook page, the organization was founded on July 26, 2013 to offer support in the tri-states and beyond. (2) The stated mission of the organization was:

   education, information, and understanding of those who are gender 
   questioning, or transitioning. We hope that information contained 
   here will be used with the goal of a more comfortable, and informed 
   community, willing to accept those who are following a very difficult 
   path to become their true self. (3)

Solidarity Mural

In response to the racial equality protests across the United States in the spring of 2020, the “SOLIDARITY” mural was completed on July 2 on the Main Street side of Five Flags Center. In the mural measuring 28 feet high and 105 feet wide, artist Shelby Fry envisioned showed support for the Black Lives Matter movement and other segments of the community and to promote unity. Some of the symbols used as letters are meant to include those with disabilities (the wheelchair symbol), brain health issues (the first “i,” which is a semicolon, which are commonly associated with brain health), the LGBTQ community (the rainbow “D”) and transgendered individuals (the symbol serving as the “y”).

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Source:

1. Goldstein, Bennet. "LGBTQ+ Group Organizing 'Beauty Workshop,' " Telegraph Herald, July 21, 2016, p. 5A

2. Facebook. "Dubuque Transgender," https://www.facebook.com/Dubuque-Transgender-406258396152039/

3. Dubuque Transgender. Website: http://dubtrans.webs.com/