Rosalyne Montgomery

[foxgrrl]

It falls to me now, to deliver the bad news. Rosalyne [Rose] S. Montgomery recently died from a heart attack. She was a local [San Francisco] activist for Transgender issues. [Transgenders United for Equality]

Everyone whom I knew, that knew her, I have now informed in person. So now I post this to inform everyone else. I haven't been able to find an obituary for her yet, but Google turns up some newspaper articles which mention her:

http://www.sfdph.org/HCMinutes/HCMin99/HCMin05041999.shtml
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1999/04/07/NEWS9074.dtl
This was her LiveJournal: tlayna

Although Nyah lived with Rose briefly, neither of us really knew her that well. (Strangely, I don't even think that I have a picture of her.) Nyah says that even though Rose wasn't enjoying life, that she was trying to make the world a better place. I don't know how tigrise is handling the news either, she lived with Rose when first moving out here to San Francisco.

Monika said this about Rose:

Not sure how well known outside the city she is, Rosalyn (Rose) Montgomery is, but she was a fixture in the Gazebo on AOL for many years (handles were TRUESF, SFRosalyne, Poizonrose). A published author, who enjoyed dark poetry, speaking out against the man, and standing up for herself and others. After years of chronic conditions, a heart attack claimed her last week sometime. She was the person who took me in and gave me a home when I moved to SF 8 years ago, she had sheltered numerous other Transgendered youth over the years, and did some activism work in San Francisco. She will be missed.
Monika

Comments

[centauress.livejournal.com]

Now I remember where she's from.

When I was in the peer counselling in Portland, I worked with PlanetOut and met at the Gazebo (oddly, under this screen name).

I wonder how her position in the community can be made up for...

[dymaxion.livejournal.com]

That really sucks; I'm sorry to hear it.

[sezjasaneh.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear about that. :(

[kitten-goddess.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry for your loss.

I knew Rose...

[(Anonymous)]

We lived in the same apartment for a very short time when I first moved to SF over ten years ago. She was one of those rare people who seemed to have no how idea how she might BEGIN to have a negative thought about another person, let alone think she'd have a reason to. I lost touch with Rose a few years back, drifting apart as distant friends so often do... I didn't know she'd past until I found your post just now.

f**k...

She'll be missed...

I think I'm going to curl into a corner for awhile...