LGBTQ news and entertainment
E! releases the first promo pic from the upcoming I Am Cait – an 8 part doc-series series starring Caitlyn Jenner.
The 65 year old former Olympian wows in a long black gown with lace back.
Looking fab, she reminds me of Courtney Cox… Anyone else seeing it?
The series debuts on E! on July 26th at 8PM on E!
A promo video is available on E! (it was set to autoplay, which I know most of my readers hate, so hit the link to watch).
Some news stories you may have missed:
• Sean Conroy, first openly gay player in professional baseball, gets his first start this Thursday; and it’s Pride Night!
• GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush says a pro-same-sex marriage ruling from SCOTUS won’t be the final word.
• 17 year old transgender teen killed in Mississippi becomes ninth transgender person murder victim this year.
• It appears Charleston church killer Dylann Roof was highly influenced by racist group Council of Conservative Citizens, who just happened to donate to the campaigns of Sen. Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Rick Santorum.
• Yahoo News debuts a new 30-minute documentary, “Uniquely Nasty: The U.S. Government’s War on Gays.”
• Let’s take one more look back at last night’s fantastic 25th Annual Broadway Bares – “Top Bottoms Of Burlesque” – which raised over $1.5 million benefiting Broadway Cares.
Google has produced this thoughtful video for Pride Month showing how a small business helped a transgender man through his transition.
From Adweek:
The first half of the spot below focuses on Jake, who was born female but identified as male from a young age. The second half introduces City Gym in Kansas City, Mo., which has given Jake a place where he can feel comfortable getting to know his changing body and find support for him and his friends. (Another gym’s tagline, “No judgments,” would be pretty apt at this place.)
With the world suddenly paying attention to transgender issues, with the spotlight on Caitlyn Jenner and Laverne Cox, listen to the voice of performance poet Ethan Smith.
This was performed last year during finals at the 2014 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.
A transgender man, he performs a poem he wrote to his former self titled “A Letter To The Girl I Used To Be.”
Don’t miss the “postscript” at the end of the poem.
Laverne Cox, transgender actress from the hit Netflix show “Orange Is The New Black” covers this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly.
Yay!
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Some stories you may have missed:
• Laverne Cox (Orange Is The New Black) will be the first transgender person to be immortalized at the famous Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum
• A straight couple in Australia plan to divorce if same-sex marriage is legalized in his country.
That’ll learn ’em.
• It seems McKinney resident Sean Toon, who stood up for the police officer who handcuffed a 14 year old girl over pool party chaos, might have had more to do with the incident that he has previously let on.
• There are 3,000 kids in Michigan waiting to be adopted and the state Senate just made that much more difficult.
• The new Netflix series Sense8 is pretty fab. And so is the handsome latin star Miguel Ángel Silvestrewho, who plays one of the show’s gay characters. Check out his teaser video below.
Clip description: Kids were presented with two pictures, one of Bruce Jenner and one of Caitlyn Jenner, and their reactions will both surprise you and inspire you.
“She looks happy.”
“She looks really confident.”
SheKnows Media’s Hatch program creates content for grown-ups, made by kids on a mission.
DYLAN is a short film written and directed by Elizabeth Rohrbaugh and is based on a interview done with Dylan Winn Garner.
The film follows a young trans man as he explains his story, his exploration in the trans community, his family’s acceptance of his identity, and ultimately his physical and emotional transformation.
Shot in Coney Island at dawn, the film shows as Dylan literally sheds the layers that have been weighing him down for so many years, and finds a freedom in self love and acceptance.
Rohrbaugh hopes that Dylan can show transgender individuals, (particularly youth), who may be struggling, that they are not alone in this process and that what is waiting for them on the other side is worth it.
An official selection at several important film festivals like Outfest (this coming July 12th) in Los Angeles, the Boston LGBT Film Festival, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and the St. Louis International Film Festival, the short is timely and relevant as transgender rights and understanding come front and center in the LGBT world.
Watch the compelling film short below and find more about the film’s journey on Facebook here.
Tonight, ABC Family will air its ABC Family’s new trans-focused documentary series, “Becoming Us.”
From Ryan Seacrest Production, “Becoming Us” focuses on one family’s teenage son, Ben Lehwald, and his journey to understanding his parent’s transition.
As more and more transgender people share their stories, the public’s understanding of gender identity and expression builds.
A recent national HRC survey revealed that 22 percent of likely voters personally know or work with someone who is transgender, and, of that group, two-thirds expressed favorable feelings toward them. That’s up from 17 percent who said they knew a transgender person just a year ago.
Tune in tonight to ABC Family at 9/8 c to see the premiere of “Becoming Us.”
Learn from those who have walked the path before you. #TransIsBeautiful #LivingOurTruth #JustTheBeginningA photo posted by Caitlyn Jenner (@caitlynjenner) on Jun 6, 2015 at 3:30pm PDT