Madame Tussauds San Francisco announced Monday that it will debut a wax figure of Laverne Cox, 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 cover introduced Caitlyn Jenner (formerly known as Bruce Jenner) on June 1.
Read next: “The Transgender Tipping Point,” TIME‘s June 09, 2014, cover story featuring Laverne Cox
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. Belanger—ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California Libraries
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