Must See LGBTQ TV: Don’t miss Janet Mock on ‘Daytime Divas’ and a new ‘Orphan Black’

Must See LGBTQ TV: Don’t miss Janet Mock on ‘Daytime Divas’ and a new ‘Orphan Black’

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Grab the remote, set your DVR or queue up your streaming service of choice! GLAAD is bringing you the highlights in LGBTQ on TV this week. Check back every Sunday for up-to-date coverage in LGBTQ-inclusive programming on TV.

On Monday, VH1’s Daytime Divas, the original dramedy exploring the behind the scenes of a daytime talk show, will air a special episode with author and transgender advocate Janet Mock. In the episode, Mock plays herself guest co-hosting the fictional program “The Lunch Hour,” and helps Heather (Fiona Gubelmann) understand her child’s transgender identity. Daytime Divas: Monday, 10pm on VH1.

The final season of critically acclaimed and GLAAD Media Award-nominee Orphan Black is on its final stretch of episodes. This Saturday’s episode “Gag or Throttle” continues the clones’ battle against Westmoreland (Stephen McHattie), with Sarah (Tatiana Maslany) fighting to save her daughter, and Cosima (Tatiana Maslany) returns with a vital clue to Westmoreland’s identity. Orphan Black: Saturday, 10pm on BBC America.

Monday, July 17th: Shadowhunters (8pm, Freeform); Stitchers (9pm, Freeform); Daytime Divas (10pm, VH1)

Tuesday: The Fosters (8pm, Freeform); The Bold Type (9pm, Freeform); Animal Kingdom (9pm, TNT); Wrecked (10:30pm, TBS)

Wednesday: Kingdom (8pm, Audience Network); I Am Jazz (8pm, TLC); Queen Sugar (10pm, OWN); Younger (10pm, TVLand)

Thursday: Hollywood Game Night (8pm, NBC); Nashville (9pm, CMT); The Night Shift (10pm, NBC)

Friday: Killjoys (8pm, Syfy); Wynonna Earp (10pm, Syfy)

Saturday: Doubt (8pm, CBS); Orphan Black (10pm, BBC America)

July 14, 2017
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If You Read ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ as a Kid, You Need to See This New Trailer: WATCH

If You Read ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ as a Kid, You Need to See This New Trailer: WATCH

Madeleine L’Engle’s classic tale A Wrinkle in Time, about the triumph of love across space and time, is being given cinematic life by an all-star cast.

Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Peňa, Levi Miller, Deric McCabe, André Holland, Rowan Blanchard, Zach Galifianakis, Chris Pine and Storm Reid star in the adaptation which follows teen Meg Murry as she embarks on acosmic search for her missing father, aided by the celestial figures of Mrs. Who, Mrs Whatsit, and Mrs. Which (Oprah, above).

The film arrives on March 9 and is directed by Ava DuVernay (Selma).

Maybe it’s time to pick up that book and give it a re-read.

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If You Read ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ as a Kid, You Need to See This New Trailer: WATCH

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) Compares Transgender Soldiers to Castrated Slaves: WATCH

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) Compares Transgender Soldiers to Castrated Slaves: WATCH

Bigoted and homophobic Iowa Rep. Steve King spoke out on the House floor this week about the defeat of a measure that would have prohibited the Army from paying for gender transition surgery for transgender troops.

RELATED: Republicans Fail in Last-Ditch Push to Ban Medical Treatments for Transgender Troops

King compared the situation to that of the Ottoman Empire:

“What they did in order to keep them from reproducing was that they did reassignment surgery on those slaves they had captured, that they had put into their janissary troops. And that reassignment surgery was they took them from being a virile, reproductive male into being a eunuch. That’s a lesson of the military — the Ottoman military — from two, three, 400 years ago…And today, we’re here thinking somehow we’re going to make the military better by letting people line up at their recruitment center who have planned that they want to do sexual reassignment surgery, know that it’s expensive, and believe ‘if I can just get into any branch of the United States services — to the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marines; maybe become a Navy SEAL — and then submit to sexual reassignment surgery and then go from a man to a woman.’”

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Rep. Steve King (R-IA) Compares Transgender Soldiers to Castrated Slaves: WATCH