After being discovered at a casting for Italian Vogue, a shoot which she booked,

Tracy African Norman's modeling career just absolutely skyrocketed.

This was the mid-70s, and she even became the face-on-box of clarel hair dye in drugstores across the U.S.

Under her picture, and I think this is amazing, under her picture were the words, born beautiful.

You know, there are so many messages in our world telling us that trans people are not beautiful,

and here is this example from recent history in direct opposition to that.

It's Tracy's face and then the words, born beautiful, there in all caps, born beautiful.

It gives me chills to think about.

Tracy Africa Norman being held up as a great beauty, someone who was born beautiful.

Now, the other part of Tracy's story that's famous is that while her career was in the middle

of this formidable rise, 40 years ago, she was on a shoot for Essence magazine where she

was outed, and her career completely stopped. She lost everything. I've always heard her

story talked about, and when we tell it, we tend to stop at the outing. She lost everything. I've always heard her story talked about,

and when we tell it, we tend to stop at the outing. She's outed, and then that's it. So talking to her,

I was particularly interested in what happened next. Where does someone go after that? And I think

that Tracy's story is important because it reminds people that the quote-unquote trans revolution is not new by any means. And it shows us just how much the LGBTQ experience

has changed and as you'll hear, continues to change. So let's do it. From The Advocate

Magazine in partnership with Glad, I'm Jeffrey Masters, and this is LGBTQ and A.

Something that I think is so interesting and special about your story is the number of times

throughout history that someone has been outed and lost everything,

and we don't know their name.

History doesn't remember them.

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