--- title: Laverne Cox Madame Tussauds Wax Figure Is First Transgender Figure description: Madame Tussauds in San Francisco to unveil a Laverne Cox wax figure on June 26 during Pride Weekend in San Fran canonical: https://time.com/3913553/laverne-cox-transgender-figure-madame-tussauds/ author: Olivia B. 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Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jun 8, 2015 9:49 PM UTC  Laverne Cox attends Netflix's Orange Is The New Black screening and Q&A at the Directors Guild Of America on May 20, 2015 in Los Angeles. Laverne Cox attends Netflix's Orange Is The New Black screening and Q&A at the Directors Guild Of America on May 20, 2015 in Los Angeles.Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic/Getty Images  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jun 8, 2015 9:49 PM UTC Madame Tussauds San Francisco announced Monday that it will debut a wax figure of [Laverne Cox](http://time.com/3822970/laverne-cox-2015-time-100/), star of _Orange Is the New Black_ and a transgender rights activist, on June 26 during Pride Weekend festivities in the Bay Area. It is the first-ever transgender figure in the museum’s history. June 2015 is already shaping up to be a banner Pride Month for the transgender community since a [_Vanity Fair_](http://time.com/3903574/caitlyn-jenner-vanity-fair-cover-bruce-jenner/)cover introduced Caitlyn Jenner (formerly known as Bruce Jenner) on June 1. _Read next:_ [_“_](http://time.com/135480/transgender-tipping-point/)[_The Transgender Tipping Point,”_ ](http://time.com/135480/transgender-tipping-point/)[TIME](http://time.com/135480/transgender-tipping-point/)[_‘s June 09, 2014, cover story featuring Laverne Cox_](http://time.com/135480/transgender-tipping-point/) ### Gay Pride in the 1950s: The Photo Booth as a Safe Space  J. J. Belanger cheek-to-cheek with a man in a photo booth. "PGE exhibition, Hastings Park." Vancouver, Circa 1953. J. J. Belanger—ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California Libraries  J. J. Belanger kissing a man in a photo booth. "PGE exhibition, Hastings Park." Vancouver, Circa 1953. J. J. 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