Gloria Allen ran a charm school for young trans women
Her motto was: “Learn to embrace yourself inside and out”
Centre on halsted, next to Whole Foods, was—and is—one of the best indoor meeting places for lgbtq people in Chicago. Young trans adults, many of them homeless because their families had kicked them out, could socialise there as long as they liked. Their elders, 60-plus, could get a hot nutritious lunch. And if you walked in there after 2012 you might well have spotted a poster on the wall:
This article appeared in the Obituary section of the print edition under the headline “How to be a lady”
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