Leelah Alcorn is a famous Blogger, born on November 15, 1997 in United States. As of June 1, 2023, Leelah Alcorn’s net worth is $5 Million.
| Parents | Rose Marie Arenas |
| Siblings | Tiffany Alcorn, Amanda Alcorn, Justin Alcorn |
| Spouse | Not Known |
| Children(s) | Not Available |
Biography
Leelah Alcorn (November 15, 1997 – December 28, 2014) was an American transgender girl whose suicide attracted international attention. Alcorn had posted a suicide note to her Tumblr blog, writing about societal standards affecting transgender people and expressing the hope that her death would create a dialogue about discrimination, abuse and lack of support for transgender people..
Alcorn was one of several children. She described herself as being raised in a conservative Christian environment; she and her family attended the Northeast Church of Christ in Cincinnati, and she had been featured in a profile of that church published in a 2011 article in The Christian Chronicle. As of 2014, the family lived in Kings Mills, Ohio.
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Many peoples want to know what is Leelah Alcorn ethnicity, nationality, Ancestry & Race? Let's check it out! As per public resource, IMDb & Wikipedia, Leelah Alcorn's ethnicity is Not Known. We will update Leelah Alcorn's religion & political views in this article. Please check the article again after few days.Allison Woolbert, executive director of the Transgender Human Rights Institute, informed The Independent that Alcorn’s case was “not unique”; the newspaper highlighted research from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicating that LGBT youth are about twice as likely to attempt suicide than heterosexual, cisgender teenagers. Newsweek similarly placed Alcorn’s suicide within its wider context of transphobic discrimination, highlighting that the Youth Suicide Prevention Program reports that over 50 percent of transgender youths attempt suicide before the age of 20, and that the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs recently published a report indicating that 72 percent of LGBT homicide victims in 2013 were transgender women. Kevin Jennings of the Arcus Foundation also situated Alcorn’s death within wider problems facing young LGBT people. In his view, she became “an international symbol of the ongoing challenges faced by LGBT youth”, adding that her death “reminds us of a basic lesson still being taught to young people across America: When it comes to gender identity, it’s best to be cisgender; and when it comes to sexual orientation, it’s best to be straight.”
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Leelah Alcorn is one of the richest Blogger & listed on most popular Blogger. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Leelah Alcorn's net worth $5 Million.
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Blogger |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
Allison Woolbert, executive director of the Transgender Human Rights Institute, informed The Independent that Alcorn’s case was “not unique”; the newspaper highlighted research from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicating that LGBT youth are about twice as likely to attempt suicide than heterosexual, cisgender teenagers. Newsweek similarly placed Alcorn’s suicide within its wider context of transphobic discrimination, highlighting that the Youth Suicide Prevention Program reports that over 50 percent of transgender youths attempt suicide before the age of 20, and that the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs recently published a report indicating that 72 percent of LGBT homicide victims in 2013 were transgender women. Kevin Jennings of the Arcus Foundation also situated Alcorn’s death within wider problems facing young LGBT people. In his view, she became “an international symbol of the ongoing challenges faced by LGBT youth”, adding that her death “reminds us of a basic lesson still being taught to young people across America: When it comes to gender identity, it’s best to be cisgender; and when it comes to sexual orientation, it’s best to be straight.”
Under Ohio’s Adopt-a-Highway program, a group adopted the interchange of Interstate 71 South and Ohio State Route 48—which was where Alcorn died—and dedicated it to her memory. As a result, the Ohio Department of Transportation erected signs stating “In Memory of Leelah Alcorn” along the road. Members of the group affixed a wreath to one of these signs; group member Lisa Oravec informed press that “We don’t want Leelah to be forgotten… We want people in Cincinnati, or anybody driving down 71 to see the wreath. See the highway. If they don’t know who Leelah is they’ll google it, educate it, and learn from what happened.” As of December 2018, the “Leelah Alcorn Highway Memorial” group continued to meet four times a year to clean that stretch of road. The highway memorial formed the basis of a short documentary, Leelah’s Highway, which was screened at the 2018 Cindependent Film Festival in Cincinnati’s Woodward Theater. Its creator, Elizabeth Littlejohn of Toronto, stated that “as a human rights activist who believes [in] the right for gender self-determination, I believe this story needed to be told.”
Carolyn Washburn, editor of the Ohio newspaper The Cincinnati Enquirer, stated that the incident “raises important issues we hope will prompt conversations in families throughout our region”. Washburn had also received letters that derided the newspaper’s use of Alcorn’s chosen name in covering her death. When contacted by The Cincinnati Enquirer, Shane Morgan, the founder and chair of transgender advocate group TransOhio, stated that while 2014 witnessed gains for the trans rights movement, Alcorn’s death illustrated how “trans people are still being victimized and still being disrespected”, highlighting the high rate of transgender people who had been murdered that year. Since the incident, TransOhio received letters from parents of transgender children describing how Alcorn’s death had affected them. Morgan stated that while he understood the anger directed toward Alcorn’s parents, “there’s no excuse for threats to the family.”
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Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Leelah Alcorn. You may help us to build the dating records for Leelah Alcorn!Prior to her death on December 28, 2014, Alcorn scheduled for her suicide note to be automatically posted on her Tumblr account at 5:30 pm. In the note, she stated her intention to end her life, commenting:
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Some of Alcorn’s sympathizers publicly criticized the teen’s mother, Carla Alcorn, for misgendering her daughter in the Facebook post announcing the teenager’s death. Some individuals—termed “the Internet’s self-appointed vigilantes” in The Washington Post—subsequently doxed and harassed Carla via her Facebook account “in revenge” for Leelah’s death. On Twitter, American gay rights activist Dan Savage argued that Alcorn’s parents should be prosecuted for their role in bringing about their daughter’s death, commenting that through their actions they “threw her in front of that truck”. He cited the successful prosecution of Dharun Ravi following the suicide of Tyler Clementi as a legal precedent for such an action. He added that legal action should also be brought against the conversion therapists who had counseled Leelah, and suggested that the Alcorns should lose custody of their other children.
In December 2015, Cincinnati became the second U.S. city after Washington, D.C., to ban the practice of conversion therapy outright; council member Chris Seelbach cited Alcorn’s suicide as an influence in the decision and stated that “she challenged us to make her death matter, and we’re doing just that”. By October 2018, four cities across Ohio had banned conversion therapy, leading journalist Nico Lang to comment that “the Buckeye State has become an unlikely leader in banning conversion therapy at the local level.”
A Facebook group called “Justice for Leelah Alcorn” was established, while a petition calling for “Leelah’s Law”, a ban on conversion therapy in the United States, was created by the Transgender Human Rights Institute to raise awareness of the psychologically harmful effects of such practices; by January 24 it had 330,009 signatures, and was named the fastest growing change.org petition of 2014. A second appeal demanding the enactment of “Leelah’s Law” was posted to the We the People section of WhiteHouse.gov on January 3, 2015, which garnered more than 100,000 signatures as of January 30. In response to the petition, in April 2015 President Barack Obama called for the banning of conversion therapy for minors.
Among the transgender celebrities who publicly responded to the incident were Janet Mock, Andreja Pejić, and Laverne Cox, while the musician Ray Toro released a song, “For the Lost and Brave”, in dedication to Alcorn. Jill Soloway, the writer of the television show Transparent, dedicated their Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series to Alcorn. During Diane Sawyer’s interview with Caitlyn Jenner (then Bruce), which confirmed Jenner’s transgender identity, Alcorn was mentioned by name and the message “Fix society. Please” was broadcast. In June 2015, the singer Miley Cyrus founded the Happy Hippie Foundation, an organization to raise awareness of homelessness and LGBT issues among young people, partly in response to Alcorn’s death. To promote the organization, she released a new series of Backyard Sessions videos, the second of which, Dido’s “No Freedom” was dedicated to Alcorn. After reading about Alcorn’s death, British musician Declan McKenna was inspired to write a song, “Paracetamol”, which was included on his debut album What Do You Think About the Car? and discusses the media’s representation of LGBT communities.
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