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Mariah Lopez is an American transgender activist and former sex worker, currently located in New York City. She is the executive director for STARR (Strategic Trans Alliance for Radical Reform), a transgender rights advocacy group that works directly with the district attorney's office to re-open unsolved homicide cases involving transgender women. ==Activism== Lopez, works to address the issues around improving the lives of LBGTIQ population in the United States and more specifically for people of color and/or low income. In 2012, Lopez lobbied for the 1992 death of Marsha P. Johnson, a black transgender rights activist to be reexamined with modern technology. Initially the case was considered a suicide but in 2012 the New York Police Department re-opened the case as possible homicide. Lopez helped open the very first transgender housing unit for the largest prison in America, Rikers Island in 2014. She wrote on Facebook on July 30, 2014 that "the country's first exclusively transgender facility" would open within days. The new unit would help better protect transgender individuals as Lopez stated the housing unit was in response to "abuses so severe and taboo, that most people (the general public and elected officials) believe these practices to be outlawed and or no longer practiced"; writing that "abuses included strip-searches by officers, beating and rape of trans individuals while incarcerated throughout the United States." citing Amnesty International's 2003 report, "Stonewalled". In 2014, Lopez acted as a publicist with STARR when the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) of New York City offered gender reassignment surgery for a 21-year-old, former foster care child. The city paid for the surgery. In 2015, Lopez served on a panel discussion at the National Action Network (NAN) about LGBTQ rights and homophobia in the Black community, moderated by Patrik-Ian Polk.〔 The panel included Sean Coleman, Executive Director, Destination Tomorrow, Reverend MacArthur Flournoy, Director Faith Partnerships and Mobilization, Human Rights Campaign, Sharon J. Lettman-Hicks, Executive Director and CEO, National Black Justice Coalition, Lawrence "Miss Lawrence" Washington, Co-Host, Bravo's ''Fashion Queens'', Daniel Williams, Youth Huddle Member and Chairperson, LGBT Committee, NAN New York City Chapter, Reverent Steffie Bartley, Sr., President, NAN Elizabeth, NJ Chapter & NAN Board of Directors and BJ Coleman, President, Coleman Entertainment Group.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mariah Lopez」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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