Comments on: Vanasco: BET.com’s list of the LGBT ‘Who’s Who’ forgets the ‘T’

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:58:52 +0000

Interesting that 365gay.com would want to want to continue the myth that Black poeple as a whole are anti Gay when a Black identified network commends Gay poeple who are Black for their achievments.

Infer what you will from that

I do

By: Chris Sullivan

Chris Sullivan — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:00:26 +0000

Well, there are some interesting names on this thread and they should be forwarded to BET for their next go round.

By: GNN

GNN — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:05:05 +0000

As soon as I saw Miss Cleo on that list I stopped taking it seriously.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:54:15 +0000

Sometimes you just gotta quote Prince

“Maybe I’m just like my mother
She’s never satisfied….”

This article feels like a lame attempt to turn something positive into a negative.

By: Dub Not Dubya

Dub Not Dubya — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:44:03 +0000

Jennifer, you said it wasn’t clear to you whether there were any bisexuals on the list. Me’shell Ndegéocello is openly bisexual.

By: Monica Roberts

Monica Roberts — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:18:01 +0000

Well, let me help you peeps you can’t think of a single AA transperson, despite the fact in the article I named two.

Kylar Broadus, attorney, college professor and board chair of the National Black Justice Coalition

Dr. Marisa Richmond, professor, historian, chair of the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition, first elected African-American transgender delegate to a major political party convention (DNC Denver 2008), second African-American transperson to win the IFGH Trinity Award, second highest honor for service to the US transgender community.

Lorrainne Sade Baskerville. Activist, 2000 inductee into Chicago GLBT Hall of Fame

Valerie Spencer activist, participant in first all transgender production of the play the Vagina Monologues, advisor to actress Kerry Washington for her role in ‘Life Is Hot In Cracktown Movie.

Zion Johnson, First African-American president of FTMI (F to M International transman’s group)

Tracy Jada O’Brien local activist in San Diego area

A. Dionne Stallworth one of the founder of GenderPac, the first transgender political action conmmittee.

Dawn Wilson, founder of NTAC (national Transgender Advocacy Coalition, helped pass transgender rights laws in Louisville and Lexington KY, first NTAC board chair, first African-American transperson to win the IFGE Trinity Award in 2000

Cydne Kimbrough, board member International Federation of Black Prides, activist, fonder and president of Baltimore, Md based org helping transpeople

the late Alexander John Goodrum, who played major role in getting GLBT protections passed in Tucson, AZ

and your truly, the 2006 winner of the IFGE Trinity Award (the third AA transperson to do so) founder of TransGriot blog, helped organize the 2005-2006 Transsistahs-Transbrothas Conventions, the first transgender conventions specifically geared toward African-Americans, NTAC founder

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:48:53 +0000

I think one of Beyonce’s back up dancers in the Single Ladies video is also trans. I would like to know more about her.

By: Sessy

Sessy — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:16:54 +0000

Sorry for not breaking it apart into paragraphs. I didn’t realize that I forgot until it was too late.

By: Sessy

Sessy — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:08:49 +0000

@Equality. When you look at ads and show(s) on LOGO, it is only occasionally that you will see a POC and a lot of times they are just to give the illusion of inclusion. The one show that they did have going for it (Noah’s Arc) magically didn’t make it past two seasons and now you hardly if ever even see the reruns, unlike QAF and the L Word which are still shown constantly (granted QAF more so than the L Word). They will sometimes have the occasional show that encompasses SGL POC, but they are few and far in between just like BET in regards to SGL people. One difference though is that BET doesn’t try to give the illusion that they are totally inclusive of SGL people (but they at least do make the attempt). A network like LOGO for the most part does it in order to uphold the illusion that the LGBT community is inclusive of all crossing not only sexuality but race. The main word there is illusion, just like when the HRC tries to do something for the transgendered community or POC by having a token representative that is only brought out when they need to show how “inclusive” they are, and then those same tokens are packed away until needed again.

By: Frances

Frances — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:41:33 +0000

Wow, it never ceases to amaze me how the LGT spectrum of the rainbow will put down bisexuality. So hypocritical to discriminate. And not only that, but as a bisexual woman who has only dated a woman as of yet, I don’t believe that we shapeshift, or that if I turned around and dated a man, things would suddenly be easy, because everyone seems to think that this is a phase, and if I dated a man, perhaps the phase would be over.

I’m just sick of the B in the alphabet rainbow getting slammed by people who are scared.

And Mentruator – “When you can shapeshift to get through life w/ your sexuality, there is no way we are going through the same fight.”

No, it’s not the same fight, because not only to I have to deal with stupid straight people, but I have to deal with idiotic gays and lesbians as well.