EditorialFrom left, Eddieomar Gonzalez-Castillo, Robert Rubama and Benjamin Holliday Wardell perform in Alejandro Cerrudo’s “It Starts Now," in New York on Sept. 28, 2021. (Julieta Cervantes/The New York Times)
EditorialJennifer Holliday performs "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" during the Tony Awards at the Winter Garden Theater in New York, Sept. 26, 2021. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialJennifer Holliday performs “And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going” from “Dreamgirls,” during the 74th Annual Tony Awards in at the Winter Garden Theatre New York on Sunday night, Sept. 26, 2021. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialGinger Wallace, right, a retired Air Force colonel, with her wife, Janet Holliday, a retired Army colonel, in Louisville, Ky., on Monday, August 16, 2021. (Andrew Cenci/The New York Times)
EditorialAndra Day, best actress nominee for "The United States vs. Billie Holliday," arrives in all gold, at the 93rd Academy Awards at Union Station in Los Angeles, April 25, 2021. (Chris Pizzello/Pool via The New York Times)
EditorialAndra Day, best actress nominee for "The United States vs. Billie Holliday," arrives before the 93rd Academy Awards at Union Station in Los Angeles, April 25, 2021. (Chris Pizzello/Pool via The New York Times)
EditorialPete Buttigieg, a Democratic candidate for president, holds a town hall campaign event at The Citadel’s Holliday Alumni Center in Charleston, S.C., Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. (Travis Dove/The New York Times)
EditorialNew England Patriots owner Robert Kraft with Linda Holliday on the field before Super Bowl LIV at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla., Feb. 2, 2020. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)