Laura Jane Grace

Laura Jane Grace is an American musician, singer, songwriter and activist born on November 8, 1980 in Fort Benning, Georgia. She is best known as founder, singer and guitarist of the punk band Against Me! formed in 1997 in Naples, Florida. Initially an acoustic solo project, Against Me! quickly evolved into an electric band and became a central figure in the American punk scene of the 2000s, with landmark albums such as Reinventing Axl Rose (2002), Searching for a Former Clarity (2005) and New Wave (2007). In 2012, Laura Jane Grace publicly announced her transition as a transgender woman, becoming one of the first major punk rock figures to do so, and tackled this theme in the critically acclaimed album Transgender Dysphoria Blues (2014). In 2016 his autobiography Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout, co-written with Dan Ozzi, was published. Alongside her work with Against Me! she releases the albums Bought to Rot with her band The Devouring Mothers (2018), then solo Stay Alive (2020) and Hole in My Head (2024). After the live album Operation Ivy: Live at the Empty Bottle with Catbite, the album Adventure Club is released in 2025, credited to Laura Jane Grace in the Trauma Tropes.