This story if from the Bay Area Reporter.
story by Cynthia Laird
Nadia Cabezas, known to many in the community as KittyKastro, hostess of the Tranny Talkpublic access show, died Monday, March 5 after she was struck by a car on ahighway in Porter County, Indiana. She was 40.
Her partner, Dina Boyer, said that Ms. Cabezas was travelingin a two-car caravan with her mother en route to San Francisco andcommunicating via walkie-talkies. They were apparently having troublecommunicating and both vehicles pulled to the side of the highway. Ms. Cabezaswas speaking with the driver of the second vehicle when she was hit by anothervehicle. An article about the accident at www.nwi.com, an Indiana publication,referred to Ms. Cabezas, who was openly transgender, using male pronouns, butBoyer said that the coroner and people at a funeral home there were respectfulof Ms. Cabezas. Boyer did not make the trip back east and had stayed in the BayArea.
Ms. Cabezas and Boyer had produced the Tranny Talk show on San Francisco public access channel 29 since1998. The show was "for, by, and about transsexuals," Boyer told the BayArea Reporter Wednesday morning.
"She was my partner, my roommate, my best friend,"Boyer said.
Angie Reid said that Ms. Cabezas was her best friend for 15years.
"She will be really missed. She fought for rights ofeverybody," Reid said.
Tomi Kolarich worked with Ms. Cabezas and had known her for10 years. Kolarich said, "She was the most hysterically outgoing personwho opened people's eyes about how wonderful a transgender person could be. Shewas an 'it' girl."
Boyer said that Ms. Cabezas's wishes were that she becremated. Plans are being made for a local memorial.
story by Cynthia Laird
Nadia Cabezas, known to many in the community as KittyKastro, hostess of the Tranny Talkpublic access show, died Monday, March 5 after she was struck by a car on ahighway in Porter County, Indiana. She was 40.
Her partner, Dina Boyer, said that Ms. Cabezas was travelingin a two-car caravan with her mother en route to San Francisco andcommunicating via walkie-talkies. They were apparently having troublecommunicating and both vehicles pulled to the side of the highway. Ms. Cabezaswas speaking with the driver of the second vehicle when she was hit by anothervehicle. An article about the accident at www.nwi.com, an Indiana publication,referred to Ms. Cabezas, who was openly transgender, using male pronouns, butBoyer said that the coroner and people at a funeral home there were respectfulof Ms. Cabezas. Boyer did not make the trip back east and had stayed in the BayArea.
Ms. Cabezas and Boyer had produced the Tranny Talk show on San Francisco public access channel 29 since1998. The show was "for, by, and about transsexuals," Boyer told the BayArea Reporter Wednesday morning.
"She was my partner, my roommate, my best friend,"Boyer said.
Angie Reid said that Ms. Cabezas was her best friend for 15years.
"She will be really missed. She fought for rights ofeverybody," Reid said.
Tomi Kolarich worked with Ms. Cabezas and had known her for10 years. Kolarich said, "She was the most hysterically outgoing personwho opened people's eyes about how wonderful a transgender person could be. Shewas an 'it' girl."
Boyer said that Ms. Cabezas's wishes were that she becremated. Plans are being made for a local memorial.
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