Official News Outlet for the Rainbow Round Table of the American Library Association
By Ashley R. Lierman Trans actress and icon Laverne Cox spoke to the New York Times for their TimesTalks series this week. Cox discussed her experiences on Orange is the New Black, trans justice, and her new documentary project Free CeCe, about the imprisonment and release of African-American transwoman CeCe McDonald for defending herself against […]
By Ashley R. Lierman Meredith Talusan, a Filipina-American transgender writer and more, recently joined BuzzFeed’s writing staff full-time, marking her as the first trans person to do so. In a heartening celebration of trans solidarity and firsts, Talusan was interviewed by the Advocate’s news editor Dawn Ennis, herself the first trans staff member at her […]
By Ashley R. Lierman Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, a major historical milestone of representing same-sex love in mainstream cinema, is ten years old this year. In honor of the anniversary, cast and crew members including Lee, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Randy Quaid, Annie Proulx, Diana Ossana, and Larry McMurtry participated in an interview with Out […]
By Ashley R. Lierman The Advocate posted an interview Friday with Sophie Campbell, the artist for the new Jem and the Holograms comic series from IDW Publishing. Campbell also recently came out as a trans woman, with admirable support from her publisher, including changing previously-published comics to reflect her new name. The Jem series has […]
