{"id":969,"date":"2014-06-04T10:41:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T15:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=969"},"modified":"2014-06-04T10:41:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T15:41:21","slug":"wick-thomas-publishes-video-on-rupaul-tranny-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/969","title":{"rendered":"Wick Thomas Publishes Video on RuPaul &#8220;Tranny&#8221; Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posts have been blowing up back and forth on social media for a few weeks now over RuPaul&#8217;s use of the word &#8220;tranny.&#8221; While the drag queen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/05\/22\/rupaul-responds-tranny_n_5374897.html\">has refused to back down<\/a> from her usage of the word, others, including <em>RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race\u00a0<\/em>alum Carmen Carrera have labeled her transphobic for her usage of the word. If you&#8217;ve missed out on the debate or want to get a new perspective, GLBTRT member\u00a0Wick Thomas has a six-minute commentary on the controversy surrounding RuPaul\u2019s use of the word \u201ctranny.\u201d It lays out the issues succinctly and talks about a way forward to make this less of a fight and more of a conversation.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E3ZACug7dPU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posts have been blowing up back and forth on social media for a few weeks now over RuPaul&#8217;s use of the word &#8220;tranny.&#8221; While the drag queen has refused to back down from her usage of the word, others, including RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race\u00a0alum Carmen Carrera have labeled her transphobic for her usage of the word. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}