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A fact from Ali Forney appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 November 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that African-American gay and transgender Ali Forney, once homeless himself, had a homeless LGBT youth center in New York City named after him for his work helping other youths?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/November.

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Not transgender?[edit]

Why is Ali Forney called transgender in his wikipedia page? He was born male and lived as a male.

Even the organization named after him described Ali as a "gay man."

See:

http://www.aliforneycenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=cms.page&id=1066

Ten years ago this month, Ali Forney -- a gay man who for years had struggled with homelessness and drug use -- was fatally shot in the head.

-206.71.239.16 (talk) 23:48, 14 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is covered by the first reference, which has a footnote on the first page clarifying that "Ali Forney identified as both gay and transgender". Note that the article states, based on this reference, that Forney self-identified as female when using the name Luscious. Yngvadottir (talk) 03:00, 15 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Picture[edit]

This is a picture of a different person—not Ali Forney 2603:7000:8902:4E38:DDA5:FF66:478B:7633 (talk) 14:17, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I spoke with employees at the Ali Forney Center and have confirmed this photo is NOT Ali Forney but another person who received services from the AFC. We should change this photo ASAP 2603:7000:9B3F:B624:C5BD:80D8:4FE7:35E5 (talk) 22:38, 27 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Pronouns[edit]

In 2022, an editor changed the entire article to use they/them pronouns, declaring that this person used them. Is there any evidence to this effect? We wouldn't want to think this edit was motivated by ideology. Zweifel (talk) 21:51, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]