In celebration of today’s National Coming Out Day, Orange Is the New Black’s Laverne Cox and Star Trek: Discovery’s Wilson Cruz sat down for a candid conversation sharing the struggles and the joys of their coming out stories. The video is the first in a series of stories from a new partnership between Barefoot Wine…
LOS ANGELES, Calif.– The Black AIDS Institute inducts a select group of individuals and organizations that have made commendable heroic contributions to the fight against HIV/AIDS in Black America. The 16th Annual Heroes in the Struggle Awards Presentation & Reception will be held Sept. 16 at the Darryl F. Zanuck Theater at 20th Century Fox…
https://youtu.be/yisD3t9cAQw “Sweet Transvestite” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again, performed by Laverne Cox as Dr. Frank-N-Furter with Ryan McCartan as Brad, premiered Friday on VanityFair.com. Listen above. “I had a conversation [with director] Kenny [Ortega]. We talked about the word ‘transvestite,’ ” the Emmy nominee tells Vanity Fair. “That…
In the current golden era of TV, storytelling is the most progressive that audiences have seen with almost all members of the LGBT community finding representation on screen—most recently, the “T.” However, with all that accolades that have come with Transparent, Laverne Cox and more, it’s easy to forget the decades of negative transgender portrayals…
October is LGBT History Month and Equality Forum, an LGBT civil rights organization, is celebrating by highlighting 31 icons that have made a difference in the lives of the LGBT community. Each day during the month a new icon will be featured in the spotlight, ranging from rock star Mick Jagger to transgender actress Laverne…
This time it’s different. Since Christine Jorgensen became an international celebrity in 1952 as the supposed, but not actual, first recipient of a sex change operation, the media has been fascinated, titillated and afraid of transgender people, and the images the media produced expressed these emotions. The broadcast news and film have long dominated the…
Today, Entertainment Weekly released their first LGBT issue in 15 years, featuring actress Laverne Cox on the cover. In an interview, Cox speaks about the changing perspectives on gender identity and the transgender community in the United States, and also talks about her personal experiences as a part of this change, such as her becoming a spokeswoman…
The nominees for the NAACP Image Awards were announced this morning and include nods for several LGBT artists and inclusive series and films, reports GLAAD. The Image Awards celebrate outstanding achievements by people of color in arts as well as those who work to promote social justice through their creative efforts, this year’s show will…
In 2010 I was selected as one of the two Champions of Pride, and in 2012 I was a speaker at the Stonewall Rally. In both cases it had to do with LGBT military service issues. Connor Maddocks was a speaker at the 2013 Stonewall Rally, in large part because his participation in trans leadership…
The city was enveloped with rainbows in celebration of San Diego Pride’s 40th anniversary. The three-day celebration kicked off with a wonderful speech by keynote speaker Laverne Cox. The critically acclaimed actress currently appears in the Netflix original series Orange is the New Black, playing Sophia Burset, an incarcerated African American transgender woman. Laverne is…
