GLAAD Blog

Send to friend
Tags: 

Trans People Speak: Laverne Cox

Saturday, November 24, 2012 - 3:30pm by Geoff Montes, People of Color Fellow at GLAAD

Known trans advocate Laverne Cox wasn’t always comfortable in her own skin. In fact, in her video as part of GLAAD’s “I AM: Trans People Speak” campaign, she touches on her initial perceptions of her identity and how she ultimately grew to embrace it after realizing she wasn’t “blending in effortlessly.”

... read full post
Send to friend
Tags: 

Trans People Speak: Jennifer Finney Boylan

Friday, November 23, 2012 - 10:30am by Geoff Montes, People of Color Fellow at GLAAD

Over the past week, GLAAD has been commemorating Transgender Awareness Week by sharing stories that highlight the resilience and the achievements of transgender Americans like Jennifer Finney Boylan and paying homage to the people we've lost to anti-transgender violence.

... read full post
Send to friend
Tags: 

Why We Remember TDOR; Gwendolyn Ann Smith, Founder of TDOR

Tuesday, November 20, 2012 - 4:27pm by Geoff Montes, People of Color Fellow at GLAAD

Gwendolyn Ann Smith writes about the creation and idea for the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) in a piece published on the Huffington Post.

... read full post
Send to friend
Tags: 

New Marriage Equality Laws Projected to Boost State Economies by $166M

Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - 3:54pm by Geoff Montes, People of Color Fellow at GLAAD

The historic votes on marriage equality in Maine, Maryland and Washington not only extended marriage rights to same-sex couples, but will add a significant amount of capital to the economies of those states, according to a new report by the Williams Institute at UCLA Law.

... read full post

Pages

Subscribe to geoffmontes's Blog From GLAAD

GLAAD on Twitter

GLAAD on Facebook

GLAAD and thousands of New Yorkers gather to mourn victim of anti-gay hate violence

More than 1,500 New Yorkers gathered today in Manhattan to mourn the death of a 32 year-old gay man, who was shot down on Friday just blocks away from the historic Stonewall Inn in an apparent act of anti-gay bias.

read more >

RSS FEEDS

PRIVACY POLICY