Laura Jane Grace – Against Me!

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Laura Jane Grace is the lead singer and songwriter of American anarcho-punk band Against Me!. In 2012, Laura came out as being transgender and began her transition to becoming a woman. The emotional closing track on Against Me!’s 2007 album New Wave features the lyric: “If I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman / My mother once told me she would have named me Laura.

Laura Jane Grace went vegan in 20061Raftery, B. 2007. Against Me!: Sunshine State. SPIN. pp. 79-82. Available: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ezn8AaqFtHUC&q=%22tom+gabel%22&pg=PA79&redir_esc=y#v=snippet&q=%22tom%20gabel%22&f=false [Accessed 23 March 2021]. and although she hasn’t been very outspoken about it has been seen wearing a t-shirt saying “Vegan is Sexy”.2Laura Jane Grace. 2016. “Vegan is Sexy”. Twitter. Available: https://twitter.com/LauraJaneGrace/status/736209410071093249 [Accessed 23 March 2021].

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References
  • 1
    Raftery, B. 2007. Against Me!: Sunshine State. SPIN. pp. 79-82. Available: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ezn8AaqFtHUC&q=%22tom+gabel%22&pg=PA79&redir_esc=y#v=snippet&q=%22tom%20gabel%22&f=false [Accessed 23 March 2021].
  • 2
    Laura Jane Grace. 2016. “Vegan is Sexy”. Twitter. Available: https://twitter.com/LauraJaneGrace/status/736209410071093249 [Accessed 23 March 2021].