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Seriously Though Laverne Cox is Having the Best Week of All Time

Seriously Though Laverne Cox is Having the Best Week of All Time

When you’ve starred in an amazing Netflix series, you win an award from GLAAD, you just made the cover of Time, you’re producing and hosting a TV show coming to MTV soon, you’ve been on talk shows ranging from Melissa Harris Perry to Katie, President Obama mentions you by name during his Pride Month speech and you’re one of the faces of the modern trans movement in America, it’s really quite…

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Laverne Cox First-Ever Trans Emmy Nominee, Tops Queer-Inclusive List, Continues World Takeover

Laverne Cox First-Ever Trans Emmy Nominee, Tops Queer-Inclusive List, Continues World Takeover

The 2014 Emmy Award nominations are out and this year there are so many LGBT-inclusive nominations! Orange is the New Black racked up 12 nominations, with one of them going to Laverne Cox andmaking her the first transgender personto be nominated for an acting category. You go, Laverne! This year’s nominations include many out actors and LGBT characters and storylines. Let’s take a look at who…

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New Law Makes it Easier for Trans Californians to Change Their IDs; Trans West Virginians Not So Lucky

New Law Makes it Easier for Trans Californians to Change Their IDs; Trans West Virginians Not So Lucky

One of the most annoying hassles while transitioning is getting your name and gender changed on legal documents like birth certificates, passports and IDs. This should be simple, quick and cheap, but in most places it’s quite the opposite. This can lead to all sorts of trouble, from trouble getting into bars, to trouble making large purchases, to trouble getting past airport security. However,…

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Making It Out Alive: Theodora and the Lesbians of Horror

Making It Out Alive: Theodora and the Lesbians of Horror

If you’re anything like me then when the weather is beautiful you somehow end up ignoring the sunshine in favor of watching films in a dark room with the curtains drawn, a large nest of pillows and duvet and empty chocolate wrappers around you. Last weekend was one of those days when I finally managed to convince my girlfriend, A, to watch a horror film with me. The haggling process went like…

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Surprise, Study Confirms Hiring Discrimination Against LGBT People Is Real

Surprise, Study Confirms Hiring Discrimination Against LGBT People Is Real

The Equal Rights Center has found — perhaps unsurprisingly, but nonetheless, depressingly — that people who indicate that they have worked for LGBT causes on their resumes are 23% less likely to land a job interview than people who don’t.

Only if you left your Autostraddle internship off your CV… via Shutterstock

The study sent resumes of nonexistent peopleto over 100 different openings at eight…

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LGBTQ Students Need Representation in Textbooks — and a Whole Lot More

LGBTQ Students Need Representation in Textbooks — and a Whole Lot More

I recently heard CeCe McDonald speak, and the youngest person in the room stood to ask a question. This small human was probably nine or ten, and asked CeCe what other transgender women she looked up to. CeCe named Janet Mock and Marsha P. Johnson, among others, and the moment elicited a collective awwwwwfrom the several hundred people in the room. I thought about how important it is for young…

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Asylum Seekers and “Dishonest” Sexualities: Bisexuality at the Border

Asylum Seekers and “Dishonest” Sexualities: Bisexuality at the Border

32-year-old Orashia Edwards, a bisexual man and long-term resident of Leeds, was denied asylum yesterday by the UK Home Office as Judge Clive Heaton QC declared that Edwards was being “dishonest” about his sexuality. No justification was given for this verdict, but Edwards has a 14-month-old child in the UK and has expressed frustration at the assumption that he could “fit in” with straight…

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Burger King’s “Proud Whopper” Isn’t Anything For Gays To Be Proud Of

Burger King’s “Proud Whopper” Isn’t Anything For Gays To Be Proud Of

This morning my email inbox greeted me with a press release from Burger King proudly declaring the release of the PROUD WHOPPER® Sandwich:

Burger King Worldwide, Inc. is broadcasting a widespread message in support of self-expression with a digital film launching today on Youtube.com/BurgerKing. The film was created at a BURGER KING® restaurant at the heart of the San Francisco Pride Parade route…

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Web Series “Twenties” and Lena Waithe, its Queer Black Writer, Are Headed For BET

Web Series “Twenties” and Lena Waithe, its Queer Black Writer, Are Headed For BET

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Remember that time we told y’all to check out this cool web series called Twenties because it was developed by a queer Black woman and told the story of a twentysomething-year old queer Black woman and her friends?! Remember!? Well… Twenties will be making its way to BET now that the series’ writer, Lena Waithe, who is also a queer Black woman, has signed a deal to…

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Obama Closes Out Pride Month By Extending Workplace Protections to Transgender Federal Employees

Obama Closes Out Pride Month By Extending Workplace Protections to Transgender Federal Employees

As a part of the White House’s Pride Month Celebration on Monday, President Barack Obama announced that he would be signing an executive order that would grant workplace protections to federal employees based on their gender identity. This comes a few weeks after he announced another executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating based on sexual orientation or gender identity.…

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SCOTUS: Religious Beliefs Trump Reproductive Health, Corporations Have First Amendment Rights

SCOTUS: Religious Beliefs Trump Reproductive Health, Corporations Have First Amendment Rights

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Today the Supreme Court handed down a ruling on the controversial Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc case, in which the owners of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores argued that due to their religious convictions, they should not be required to cover access to certain contraceptives, as the Affordable Care Act requires. The Supreme Court has…

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SF Weekly Laces Its 2014 Pride Cover Story With Transmisogyny

SF Weekly Laces Its 2014 Pride Cover Story With Transmisogyny

This year, San Francisco Pride gave Grand Marshal honors to trans woman author and advocate Janet Mock as well as Jewlyes Gutierrez, a young Latina trans woman who was initially given a misdemeanor battery charge for defending herself against ongoing bullying from three cis girls at her Bay Area high school. While those charges were later droppedas she entered a court-ordered restorative justice…

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“R&B Divas” Star Monifah Carter Marries Longtime Girlfriend, Makes History

“R&B Divas” Star Monifah Carter Marries Longtime Girlfriend, Makes History

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On the June 25th season finale of TvOne’s “R&B Divas” star Monifah Carter completed a journey that viewers had joined her in since the 2012 pilot episode: she married her girlfriend Terez Mychelle.

For those of us who had been following her career since her first hit, “Touch It,” we were excited to see her joining the talented cast of this show.…

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Angel Haze and Ireland Baldwin Are Officially Together, Not “Just Best Friends”

Angel Haze and Ireland Baldwin Are Officially Together, Not “Just Best Friends”

Remember when we thought Angel Haze and Ireland Baldwin seemed especially cute and cuddly lately? As per usual, Autostraddle’s professional levels of gaydar are at Olympic levels of accuracy, because your favorite pansexual rapper confirmed to The Independent that yes, the two are together, the feelings are strong, and it is on like Donkey Kong.

“There are still certain limitations for women. If…

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New York State Sued Because Trans-Exclusionary Medicaid Regulation Has Got To Go

New York State Sued Because Trans-Exclusionary Medicaid Regulation Has Got To Go

Last week, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Legal Aid Society and the law firm of Willkie, Farr and Gallagherfiled a class action lawsuit against the state of New York, which has discriminated against transgender people seeking healthcare since 1998 with a regulation that categorically denies Medicaid coverage for gender affirming healthcare. SRLP has been working to reverse this regulation since…

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