Nancy Nangeroni

Nancy Nangeroni is a diversity educator and transgender community activist. She is a founder of GenderTalk Radio, the award-winning talk show about gender and transgender issues that was broadcast from 1995 to 2006 on WMBR in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1] Nangeroni served as an executive director of the International Foundation for Gender Education and Chair of the Steering Committee of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition.[2]

Career and impact

Nancy Nangeroni founded the talk show GenderTalk Radio in 1995.[3] The show was focused on transgender history and contemporary issues and co-hosted by Gordon MacKenzie and Nangeroni herself. It was broadcast weekly for over 11 years.[4]

In 1998, Nangeroni led the vigil for Rita Hester, a transgender woman murdered in Allston, Massachusetts on November 28, 1998.[5] The event of horrible violence towards a transgender person inspired the International Transgender Day of Remembrance, a campaign held annually to remember and honor the lives of transgender people reported murdered during the year.[6] At the time of Hester's death, Nancy Nangeroni carefully chronicled the troubled media response to the event.[7] In 2000, to signify the second anniversary of Hester's death, Nangeroni interviewed her mother Kathleen Hester and younger sister Diana Hester on GenderTalk.[8]

From 2006 to 2008, Nangeroni and MacKenzie co-produced and co-hosted '"GenderVision, an educational cable television program about gender identity.[9]

Nangeroni is a Chair Emeritus of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition where she served for six years.[10]

Awards and honours

In 2000, GenderTalk received an award from GLAAD for "Outstanding LGBT Radio".[11] In 2020, Nancy Nangeroni was an honoree for the 2020 HistoryMaker Awards, presented by The History Project, Boston's LGBTQ+ archive.[12]

References
  1. "Nancy Nangeroni Interview". theoutwordsarchive.org. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  2. Kowalska, Monika (2014-04-25). "The Heroines of My Life: Interview with Nancy Nangeroni". The Heroines of My Life. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  3. "Nancy Nangeroni bio | GenderTalk". Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  4. "Nancy Nangeroni bio | GenderTalk". Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  5. Times, The Rainbow (2015-11-04). "Trans Community & Allies to Honor Transgender Lives During TDOR 2015". The Rainbow Times | New England's Largest LGBTQ Newspaper | Boston. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  6. Phelps, Rob. "Boston's HistoryMaker Awards goes virtual through month of October | Boston Spirit Magazine". Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  7. "Rita Hester's Murder and the Language of Respect | GenderTalk". Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  8. "'Everybody knew Rita': Decades later, still no answers in slaying of Black trans woman". NBC News. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  9. Kowalska, Monika (2014-04-25). "The Heroines of My Life: Interview with Nancy Nangeroni". The Heroines of My Life. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  10. "Here's what most people get wrong about the transgender community". PBS NewsHour. 2015-04-23. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  11. "What Does Transgender Day of Remembrance Mean to You - Q&A with Ethan St. Pierre | GLAAD". www.glaad.org. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  12. "Announcing the 2020 HistoryMaker Awards Honorees | The History Project". historyproject.org. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
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