1946 — May 21, 2021Ruach Beverly Graffis, a bisexual feminist activist, taxi cab advocate, and opera singer, died from physician-assisted suicide May 21, 2021.
She was 74.Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1946 to strict Baptist parents, she later moved to San Francisco, performing her Habanera midnights in Jon Sugar shows.Sugar recalled that Ms.
Graffis was a force to be reckoned with. Once while driving her cab a man put a gun to her head trying to rob her. She punched him in the face and knocked him out.Ms.