‘Little Al Cashier’ was a hero to his fellow Civil War soldiers in G-Company in the 95th Illinois Voluntary Infantry. None of his comrades knew that he was transgender.
“As lesbians, as French women living in exile, there are lots of things to suggest they should keep their heads down. But instead they stick their necks out.”
More than 50 gay and transgender people in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, were detained and abused in a series of raids over the past week, lawyers and rights activists said.
