Transgender lawyer and advocate Phyllis Randolph Frye as one of the grand marshals of the Houston Pride Parade. You can read more about it in the Dallas Voice:

Frye is a transgender lawyer and GLBT activist who, for nearly 30 years, has worked to change laws that discriminate against GLBT individuals. She was instrumental in changing clothing laws during the 1980s that prohibited women from wearing zippered pants and men from wearing anything but pants.

She also helped establish the “Wick Marriage,” which allows same-sex transgender couples to marry; worked to convince high courts in Maryland that gender is more than chromosomes; and endeavored to change laws against same-sex marriage.

Frye was a founding member of the Transgender Law Conference and the Stonewall Law Association of Greater Houston. In 2005, she worked as a leader of the Houston Futures Conference and edited and published the “Gay Agenda” document that resulted from the conference.