Magora Ernestine Molineaux (September 22, 1938 – November 6, 2023) was an American minister and LGBT civil rights activist who participated in the Stonewall uprising.
[4] At age 14, she was outed and, in an attempt to “cure” her homosexuality, her mother offered her the choice of marrying a man, or be institutionalized at the Utica State Hospital.
[8] Kennedy joined the Boston chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1968, spurred by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.[9] On the LGBTQ&A podcast, she said, "They started throwing Black Panthers out, those that were gay...I told my commander, 'I'm leaving.
She was driving to Provincetown when she heard that LGBT people were fighting against a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, so she turned her car around and joined the uprising.
[3] At the first stop of the march at drag bar Jacques Cabaret, Kennedy stated a list of demands: Because we can’t go anywhere else, because as gay women we have been especially ghettoized here in Boston, and because the conditions at gay bars are by and large determined by the straight world, those in control know they can be as oppressive as they want.
We are effectively ghettoized, since dancing between members of the same sex and other behavior, which the law deems to call lewd and lascivious, are illegal.
[12]In 1971, she appeared on The David Susskind Show along with other LGBT activists, arguing against the American Psychiatric Association's designation of homosexuality as a mental disorder.
In 1975, she served on the Task Force on Racism of the Christian Social Action Commission of the Metropolitan Community Church.