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For a time she was rumoured to have died by suicide or to have been stabbed to death in the 1990s,<ref name="hazlitt" /> but in fact she had retired from music, and moved home to Nashville from Los Angeles. She kept in touch with Frank Motley, who put a Toronto record collector in touch with her in the mid 1990s. This news was relayed to a small number of her old musician friends, a couple of whom contacted her. One, Steve Kennedy, discussed with Shane the possibility of organizing and staging a reunion concert, but this never materialized — the next time Kennedy called the same phone number, it had been reassigned to somebody else who had never heard of Shane.<ref name="cbc" />

== Transgender Influence ==

'''Transgender Representation In The Entertainment Industry'''

With the Gay Liberation Movement emerging within the 1960s, transgender individuals, as well gender non-conforming people, created a sense of voice that provided strength and unification. While trans visibility was becoming more common, many transgender people were difficult to identify within society, due to active discrimination that could endanger their lives.<ref name=":3">Ellis, Nick. “Historical Perspectives: Santa Clara University Undergraduate Journal of History, Series II.” ''Power and Community: The Queer Liberation Movement of the 1960sand 1970s'' 25 (2020): 1–19. <nowiki>https://doi.org/https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/historical-perspectives/vol25/iss1/8?utm_source=scholarcommons.scu.edu%2Fhistorical-perspectives%2Fvol25%2Fiss1%2F8&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages</nowiki>.</ref> Isolation in the early years of the [[Gay liberation|Gay Liberation Movement]] for transgender individuals was the result of not only discrimination from people outside of the movement, but from inside the movement as well. Following the [[Stonewall riots]] in the 1970s, several popular queer movements, such as the [[Gay Liberation Front]] and the [[Gay Activists Alliance|Gay Activist Alliance]] excluded transgender individuals, which led to the creation of trans inclusive organizations, such as [[Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries]], Transvestite and Transsexual Activist Organization, and [[Queens Liberation Front|Queens’ Liberation Front]].<ref name=":3" />

These organizations emerged in the 1970s, however, which was before Jackie Shane’s presence in the entertainment industry was recognized. Shane was never one to hide, nor label her sexuality, freely expressing herself throughout the 1950s and 60s. Her ability and confidence to place herself within the public eye while openly expressing femininity, emphasizes Shane’s overall importance in transgender visibility. Shane was not directly a part of the [[Gay liberation|Gay Liberation Movement]], or any transgender movements, but her presence and silent activism prior to the emergence of these movements paved the way for many transgender individuals.

There were little to no transgender musicians throughout this era of queer history. Significant trans women in this industry, such as [[Wendy Carlos]] and [[Jayne County]], were pioneers for the transgender community in this career field, but they were not openly transgender within the media until the mid 1970s.<ref>Schoonhoven, Sarah Marie. “Gender, Timbre, and Metaphor In The Music of Wendy Carlos.” Texas Scholar Works, May 1, 2017. <nowiki>https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/items/b20e95c0-7776-4f33-8ec9-bcdb4af678d8</nowiki>.</ref><ref>Bos, Nancy (2017). "Forging a New Path: Transgender Singers in Popular Music" (PDF). ''Journal of Singing''. '''73'''(4): 421–424.</ref> Shane’s impact on the transgender music industry, combined with the various movements that included transgender visibility and expression, guided several artists to break societal barriers regarding their sexual and gender identity.

==Post-career attention==