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Octavia St. Laurent

March 16, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Octavia St. Laurent was born on March 16, 1964 (to May 17, 2009). She was a transgender vocalist, drag performer, actress, and ballroom icon featured in the 1990 documentary “Paris Is Burning.” Octavia St. Laurent was born somewhere in Brooklyn, New York. She legally changed her name a few times, and sometimes went by Heavenly Angel Octavia St. Laurent Manolo Blahnik, and alternatively, Octavia St. Laurent Mizrahi. Little is known about St. Laurent’s early years, due to the many conflicting […]

Categories: All, March, March 16, St. Laurent, Octavia • Tags: 1964, 2009, March 16, May 17, Octavia St. Laurent, Ubuntu Biography Project

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Shelton Jackson

February 5, 2018 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Shelton Jackson was born on February 4, 1978 (to March 2, 2009). He was poet, author, HIV/AIDS educator and activist, inspiring LGBTQ advocate, and founder of a publishing firm. Shelton Samad Jackson was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of two drug addicted parents. He describes his father, the late Shelton Robert Williams, as a functioning addict who worked as a garbage man, and his mother, Lyndale Jackson, as a drug addict and an alcoholic who held sporadic jobs […]

Categories: All, February, February 04, Jackson, Shelton • Tags: 1978, 2009, February 4, March 2, Shelton Jackson, Ubuntu Biography Project

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