Founder of DC Trans Pride and Black Trans Pride remembered as ‘an icon’

SaVanna Wanzer, a transgender advocate who is credited with founding events that celebrated D.C.'s transgender community, particularly the Black transgender community, has died at age 63.(Courtesy Whitman-Walker Health)

SaVanna Wanzer, a transgender advocate who is credited with founding events that celebrated D.C.'s transgender community, particularly the Black transgender community, has died at age 63.(Courtesy Whitman-Walker Health)

Funny, fierce, kind. Those are just some of the words used to describe SaVanna Wanzer, a transgender rights advocate who is credited with founding events that celebrated D.C.’s transgender community, particularly the Black transgender community.