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  GLAAD: NY TIMES TRANS EXPLOITATION COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE

  by BRIAN MILLS on May 14, 2012 | No Comments">No Comments

  HTTP://FIERTH.COM – This weekend, the New York Times published anextremely exploitative article about a transgender woman who had died in a fire. The article, about Lorena Escalera, only mentions that she was killed in a fire after telling readers that she was “curvaceous,” that she “drew admiring glances” in her “gritty Brooklyn neighborhood,” that she “was known to invite men for visits to her apartment,” that Lorena was “called Lorena” (as opposed to saying she was “named Lorena” or that she simply was Lorena) and that she “brought two men to her apartment” sometime between late Friday night and early Saturday morning.

  Posted in *NEW, FEATURED, LGBT

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  ‘What Would You Do?’: Transgender Waitress In New Jersey Diner Defended By Customers

  by BRIAN MILLS on May 03, 2012 | No Comments">No Comments

  HTTP://FIERTH.COM – In an effort to determine one community’s acceptance of transgender people, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” alum Carmen Carrera is cast in the role of a New Jersey diner waitress, while an actor portrays a longtime customer who deplores the fact the waiter he once knew and liked as “Christopher” is now a woman.

  Posted in *NEW, LGBT, TV

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  White House to Host First-Ever Meeting with Trans Activists

  by BRIAN MILLS on Apr 29, 2011 | No Comments">No Comments

  HTTP://FIERTH.COM -Tomorrow, the Office of Public Engagement at the White House is hosting a meeting with a number of transgender activists and leaders working on federal policy around trans issues — for the first time in American history. Via the Washington Blade:

  Posted in *NEW, CAUSES