Alexis Arquette was 19 and still in the closet when she played trans sex worker Georgette in Last Exit to Brooklyn. The reviews compared her to a young Al Pacino. Then she came out, and Hollywood quietly stopped calling. She worked anyway - close to seventy films, Pulp Fiction and The Wedding Singer among them. But she turned down the roles that made trans people the punchline. Born in 1969, she'd have turned 57. She carried HIV for 29 years, from the year she turned 18 until the morning she died in 2016, at 47. Her family held her at the end and sang her David Bowie's Starman. She had told them that where she was going, there was only one gender. Her transition documentary, Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother, premiered at Tribeca in 2007 - and she deliberately refused to give audiences the surgical reveal they expected. Her sister Patricia dedicated her 2019 Emmy win to her, saying she would be in mourning until trans people stopped being persecuted. Were you aware that Alexis Arquette came out as trans in 2006 but she never underwent any surgical procedures?