ScreenCrush and GLAAD Video Features Trans Actors Demanding Equality in Hollywood

Los Angeles, CA – GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, and ScreenCrush today released a powerful video written by actress and writer Jen Richards and featuring transgender actors calling for equality in Hollywood – in front of and behind the camera.

The video is part of ScreenCrush’s new franchise Our Hollywood, a month-long series about the past, present and future of transgender visibility in film and television during LGBTQ Pride Month. The video features Alexandra Billings (Transparent), Trace Lysette (Transparent), Elliot Fletcher (Shameless, The Fosters), Alexandra Grey (Transparent, Drunk History, When We Rise), Jen Richards (Nashville), Ian Harvie (Transparent), D’Lo (Sense8, Looking), Rain Valdez (Looking), and Jazzmun (When We Rise).

Trace Lysette, Alexandra Billings, and Alexandra Grey have recently been submitted for Emmy recognition for their roles on Amazon’s “Transparent.” Grey has also been submitted for her guest role on Comedy Central’s “Drunk History.”

Jen Richards, who penned the script for the video is the creator of Her Story, an Emmy-nominated web series following the lives of trans women. She is also an actress who appeared on CMT’s Nashville.

An excerpt of the script follows: “Dear Hollywood, You have the power to educate, to change minds, shape public opinion, and open hearts so we need you to show us, as we really are. Tell our stories with the creativity, dignity, humor and depth that make us real people. Let us help you tell those stories or better yet, help us tell them ourselves and then put us in them. And in everything else. In all kinds of parts. Yes, you’ll be giving us a job, and thank you for that, but you’ll also be making the world a little bit safer for an intensely maligned, under-represented, and vulnerable population.”