Lorraine Sade Baskerville papers

Lorraine Sade Baskerville is a social worker, activist, and trans woman best known for her work as an HIV/AIDS case manager at Howard Brown Health Center and Horizons Community Services, as well as her founding of the transgender advocacy group transGENESIS in 1995. transGENESIS served to address issues of gender identity, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, sex work, harm reduction, and self- empowerment in the greater Chicagoland area until 2003. She also worked Test Positive Aware Network (TPAN), the Chicago HIV Prevention Planning Group (HPPG), the Chicago Police Department’s 23d District Gay and Lesbian Advisory Group, and the Youth Events Committee for the Chicago Black Pride 2000 conference. She published a memoir titled One Trans Woman's Spiritual Journey: Transcending into Womanhood in Phuket, Thailand in 2014.