jeudi 29 mai 2014

Trans Star Laverne Cox on Time Cover: 'This Is Way Bigger Than Me'

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Not many people receive a birthday gift like Laverne Cox did on ThursdayTime magazine put the activist and Orange Is the New Black star on the cover of the June 9 issue beside these words: "The Transgender Tipping Point: America's next civil rights frontier."


"What a wonderful bday present!" Cox wrote on Facebook. "I realize this is way bigger than me and about a tipping point in our nation's history where it is no longer acceptable for trans lives to be stigmatized, ridiculed, criminalized and disregarded. This is for my trans siblings out there and for anyone who has ever been told that who you know yourself to be at your core is not legitimate. You are who you know yourselves to be." Read more...


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