Browsing: Transgender

The Okra Project is committed to fighting food insecurity in the Black trans community worldwide This interview is excerpted from…

The Leaky Cauldron and MuggleNet, two well-established Harry Potter fan communities, issued a statement denouncing the Harry Potter author for her harmful and disproven statements about transgender people.

This interview was conducted for the interview podcast, LGBTQ&A. It’s easy to forget how different things were in 2013 when…

GLAAD’s Rising Stars 20 Under 20 list spotlights twenty young LGBTQ people who are shaping the future of media and activism.

In her newly-published memoir, XOXY, interACT Executive Director and advocate Kimberly Zieselman shares her story of growing up intersex, finding community, and becoming the advocate she is today. We caught up with Kimberly to discuss her story, her advocacy, and what’s next for her.

“They are hunting us and they are killing us,” Pedro Julio Serrano told media at a press conference this week to denounce anti-LGBTQ violence in Puerto Rico. At least ten people have been killed in 15 months on the U.S. Territory, said Serrano who is Executive Director of Puerto Rico Para Tod@s and a spokesperson for the Broad Committee for the Search of Equity, or CABE in Spanish.

The recent and shocking deaths of two transgender women, Serena Angelique Velázquez Ramos and Layla Peláez Sánchez, who were burned to death in a car, led to the most recent call to action, which GLAAD and a number of other national organizations joined. Two suspects were arrested in connection to the deaths of Velázquez Ramos and Peláez Sánchez, both of whom reportedly lived in New York and were visiting Puerto Rico.

The new family drama from Tony Phelan and Joan Rater includes a young trans actor named Blue Chapman in the cast.

I had finally found a home.