Autumn Sandeen is the Trans Progressive columnist at LGBT Weekly, as well as a long time blogger on Pam's House Blend. Autumn is pehaps best known for being the transgender Persian Gulf War veteran who handcuffed herself to the White House fence twice with GetEqual in 2010 over repeal of DADT, for coverning the Angie Zapata Hate Crime Murder Trial from the courtroom, and for being one of the first of two transgender journalists certified to cover a Democratic National Convention (2008).