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Meet Victoria’s Secret’s first out-transgender model

Meet Victoria’s Secret’s first out-transgender model

Lingerie brand Victoria’s Secret has just reached a watershed moment. The company has cast its first out-transgender model for a photo shoot.

22-year-old Valentina Sampaio of Brazil will become the first trans model to grace the pages of the famed catalog, sporting the VS Pink line, the company’s athletic brand.

“Never stop dreaming,” Sampaio said in celebration of her casting via Instagram. 

Related: Male Model Andrej Pejic Would Become A Woman (For A Victoria’s Secret Contract)

News of the announcement also attracted overwhelmingly positive feedback from other celebrities and queer rights groups. GLAAD trumpeted the move as a positive step toward equality. Transgender actress Laverne Cox took to Sampaio’s social media to congratulate the model. “Wow, finally!” Cox wrote.

The move to hire Sampaio comes as Victoria’s Secret has come under recent fire both for oversexualizing its models, and for anti-transgender posturing. Last year, Ed Razek, chief marketing officer of the company, expressed disgust at the thought of hiring transgender models. Though he later dialed back his remarks, the company announced his retirement this week.

A few more pics of Sampaio in action…

www.queerty.com/meet-victorias-secrets-first-transgender-model-20190806?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29

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Ohio Lawmaker Defies Calls to Resign After Blaming Mass Shootings on Gays

Ohio Lawmaker Defies Calls to Resign After Blaming Mass Shootings on Gays

On Monday we reported that Ohio State Rep. Candice Keller (R – District 53) blamed America’s mass shootings on a long list of things including gay marriage, drag queen advocates, and President Obama.

Wrote Keller on Facebook: “After every mass shooting, the liberals start the blame game. Why not place the blame where it belongs? The breakdown of the traditional American family (thank you, transgender, homosexual marriage, and drag queen advocates); fatherlessness, a subject no one discusses or believes is relevant; the ignoring of violent video games; the relaxing of laws against criminals (open borders); the acceptance of recreational marijuana; failed school policies (hello, parents who defend misbehaving students): disrespect to law enforcement (thank you, Obama).”

Ohio Republican Party leader Jane Timken called on Keller to resign.

Said Timken: “While our nation was in utter shock over the acts of violence in El Paso and Dayton, Republican State Representative Candice Keller took to social media to state why she thought these acts were happening. Candice Keller’s Facebook post was shocking and utterly unjustifiable. Our nation is reeling from these senseless acts of violence and public servants should be working to bring our communities together, not promoting divisiveness.”

Dayton, Ohio Mayor Nan Whaley and Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones did as well.

I don’t often agree with @ohiogop chair @JaneyMurph, but state Rep. Candice Keller needs to resign. No matter where you’re from, who you love, or what you look like, you’re welcome in Dayton. #DaytonStrong t.co/IsobEKdDoJ

— Nan Whaley (@nanwhaley) August 5, 2019

Candice Keller should resign at once. Shame shame

— Richard K. Jones (@butlersheriff) August 5, 2019

Said Keller in response: “Establishment moderates have never been fans of mine because I ran against their endorsement and won. As the only conservative in this race, I will be taking my Senate campaign to the voters to decide.”

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Ohio Lawmaker Defies Calls to Resign After Blaming Mass Shootings on Gays

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HRC Marks Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Renews Calls for Congress to Pass H.R. 4

HRC Marks Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Renews Calls for Congress to Pass H.R. 4

Today, HRC marks the anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and renews its call for Congress to pass the Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R. 4) — critically important civil rights legislation that would ensure fair access to the ballot for all Americans is protected. The measure was introduced by Representative Terri Sewell (D-AL) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) as S. 561.

“The right to vote is a central principle and a bedrock of our democracy,” said HRC Government Affairs Director David Stacy. “Yet across the country, there are concerted efforts to prevent and discourage Americans from voting, particularly targeted at disenfranchising people of color and others who are most marginalized. The Voting Rights Advancement Act is a crucial step toward ensuring the voting rights of all Americans are restored and fully protected. Full equality will not be achieved until we halt the systematic efforts to restrict access to the ballot box, disenfranchise voters and undermine our democracy.”

In June 2019, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of partisan redistricting in two cases out of Maryland (Lamone v. Benisek) and North Carolina (Rucho v. Common Cause).

  • Lamone v. Benisek: Maryland voters argued that Democratic state lawmakers enacted a congressional redistricting plan that intentionally diluted the impact of Republican votes in the state’s 6th Congressional District.
  • Rucho v. Common Cause: The North Carolina Democratic Party argued that Republican state lawmakers intentionally created a redistricting plan that disadvantaged Democratic candidates.

On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a blow to civil rights in Shelby County v. Holder by striking down a key provision in the Voting Right Act that protected voters and their right to vote. Since the Supreme Court’s ruling, states and localities have brazenly pushed forward discriminatory changes to voting practices, including changing district boundaries to disadvantage select voters, instituting more onerous voter identification laws and changing polling locations with little notice. 

Within the LGBTQ community, people of color, LGBTQ youth, and transgender individuals are often the most impacted by weakened voting rights laws. A poll found that African-American and Latino voters were three times as likely as white voters to report trouble finding their polling place. With one-third of transgender people reporting having no government identification that reflects their gender identity, voter ID laws often forcibly “out” transgender voters to poll workers, putting them at risk for discrimination and harassment.

www.hrc.org/blog/hrc-marks-anniversary-of-the-voting-rights-act-renews-calls-to-pass-hr4?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss-feed

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BACKGROUNDER: PragerU’s Ties to White Supremacy, Horrific Anti-LGBTQ Record

BACKGROUNDER: PragerU’s Ties to White Supremacy, Horrific Anti-LGBTQ Record

PragerU has long history of publishing anti-LGBTQ content

PragerU falsely claims President Trump did not describe neo-Nazis as “very fine people”

NEW YORK – GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today released the following background document on digital media non-profit PragerU. PragerU releases short videos on their site, app, and via YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Last week, the nonprofit organization was in the news for being home to an interview with TV host and actor Mario Lopez on The Candace Owens Show in which Owens asked Lopez about parents supporting their transgender children, referring to it as a “weird trend.”

This week, following the tragedies in El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH, PragerU published a new video falsely claiming President Trump did not use the “very fine people” phrase to describe white nationalists at the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which one person was killed. 

“Context needs to be provided to the media and all Americans about PragerU and the organization’s destructive rhetoric, which includes attacking people of color and LGBTQ Americans while defending the rise of white nationalism in the United States,” said Zeke Stokes, Chief Programs Officer for GLAAD. “This so-called university is nothing more than a think tank for hate.”

According to GLAAD’s research, PragerU has dedicated content aimed at attacking people of color, the Islam religion, and the LGBTQ community. Further, PragerU has conducted interviews with many controversial public figures who are often hailed by the white supremacist movement, including Sebastian Gorka and Steve Bannon – former senior officials within the Trump Administration.  

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: PragerU’s Anti-LGBTQ Record

— In a video titled “Dangerous People Are Teaching Your Kids,” contributor Jordan Peterson includes the idea “that all sex differences are socially constructed” and “fabricated gender pronouns” among the supposedly evil ideas being taught in schools today. At another part he mocks the book for “pretty much telling you that trans is great.”

— Contributor Ashley McGuire produced a transphobic PragerU video titled “There Are Only Two Genders”.

— Produced a short video attacking trans women in beauty pageants, insisting trans women are “hindering the ability for biological women to compete.”

— Contributor Abigail Shrier produced a video insisting that trans rights and specifically pronoun usage is “totalitarian thinking” and an attempt to “control people’s thoughts”.

— Contributor Will Witt insisted that trans athletes are “destroying the quality that feminists are fighting for.” 

— On PragerU’s The Candace Owens Show, Contributor Abigail Shrier insisted that transgender is a changeable state that people outgrow.  

— Contributor Ashley McGuire insisted that trans athletes in sports like mixed martial arts means that “It’s now okay for a man to hit a woman”.

— Tweeted the skewed far-right talking point that “A massive number of those who undergo transgender surgery contemplate suicide.”

— Tweeted insistence that US military members are largely supportive of trans ban: “Leftists on social media may hate Trump’s proposed trans ban, but you know who doesn’t? U.S. generals and admirals.” (*Basing this on a skewed story from the right wing Washington Times) 

— On PragerU’s The Candace Owens Show, the host and guest Michael Knowles equated being trans with being schizophrenic and insisted that trans rights are all an attempt to rejectreality.

— Insisted the pro-LGBTQ Southern Poverty Law Center “foments hate.”

— In a video titled “The Left Ruins Everything,” founder Dennis Prager cites “imposed gender

confusion” as “in some ways the scariest of all” on his list of nine supposed things “leftists” have destroyed.

— Tweeted: “First you think: Sex = Gender.Then you’re taught: Sex is biological; Gender is socially-constructed, non-binary and/or fluid. And ultimately you understand: There’s a variety of personalities and forms of expression—but there are only two genders.”

— Mocked Elizabeth Warren for her plan to reimburse same-sex couples who were married before the Supreme Court’s marriage decisions, calling it “gay reparations.”

— Tweeted that transphobia is a “dumb term.”

— On The Candace Owens Show, the host and her guest, hip hop artist Zuby, mocked trans rights by recounting the guest’s entering into a women’s lifting completion to make a transphobic point about trans athletes.

— Contributor Will Witt attacked feminist, inclusive children’s books, asking at one point, “what is this supposed to be about, transgender rights? The baby’s not choosing their own gender? It’s a baby! What does a baby know about gender confusion?”

— Denied that Family Research Council, one of the most viciously anti-LGBTQ special interests in American history, should be designated a hate group.

— Produced a short video implying that “the left” is going to start a second Civil War.

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#AM_Equality Tipsheet: August 6, 2019

#AM_Equality Tipsheet: August 6, 2019

HRC MOURNS KIKI FANTROY, A BLACK TRANSGENDER WOMAN KILLED IN FLORIDA: Tragically, Fantroy’s death is the 13th known case of deadly violence against the transgender community in 2019. All of the victims were Black transgender women. More from HRC. 

  • Fantroy’s death in Miami comes as a national spotlight is focused on the ongoing epidemic of gun violence in the U.S. In the last 10 days, communities in Gilroy, California; El Paso, Texas; and Dayton, Ohio have been devastated by mass shootings. More from HRC. 
  • Alicia Love, a transgender woman, was assaulted and robbed at a D.C. gas station after leaving work. The hate-bias attacked against her on Aug. 2 became the 8th incident of violence against one or more LGBTQ people in the D.C. area since the June 13 murder of Zoe Spears, a trans woman, in Fairmount Heights, Md. More from Washington Blade.

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— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) August 6, 2019

REDRAWN DISTRICTS IN VIRGINIA PRESENT CHALLENGE TO REPUBLICANS IN NOVEMBER & A CHANCE TO HIGHLIGHT PRO-EQUALITY ISSUES: HRC plans to target 11,000 district voters in Virginia who support LGBTQ rights, HRC National Press Secretary for Campaigns Lucas Acosta (@LucasRAcosta) tells reporter Laura Vozzella (@LVozzella). More from The Washington Post.

TUESDAY TWEET — FORMER NAVY SEC URGES PENTAGON TO UPDATE POLICIES TO ALLOW MEMBERS LIVING WITH HIV TO SERVE FULLY: “The current deployment restrictions lack scientific support, perpetuate HIV-related stigma and saddle these members with rejection and discrimination,” writes Ray Mabus (@SECNAV75), secretary of the Navy from 2009 to 2017. Read the full oped in The Washington Post.

Opinion: Discriminating against HIV-positive military members is unproductive for our military t.co/iqvN2Ir1cS

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 5, 2019

ALWAYS HOT, NEVER ICED — VOX DIVES INTO THE RISE OF SARAH MCBRIDE’S POLITICAL CAREER: “Anyone who knows me knows that my love of Delaware is absolute,” McBride (@SarahEMcBride) told Vox’s Katelyn Burns (@transscribe). “Particularly in this moment with so much gridlock in Washington, D.C., the decisions that impact people the most, and the opportunity for change, it’s at the state level. It’s in the state legislatures.” More from Vox.

It is such a thrill to profile @SarahEMcBride for @voxdotcom after she announced her candidacy for Delaware State Senate several weeks ago.

“Sarah McBride thought coming out would kill her political career. She’s just getting started.”t.co/LOiWV0B04z

— Katelyn Burns (@transscribe) August 5, 2019

SEVEN WAYS TO WELCOME LGBTQ FAMILIES AS STUDENTS HEAD BACK TO SCHOOL: When young people have their unique family structures represented in school curriculum — through books, images and lessons — it leads to a feeling of connectedness in school, improves academic performance and creates an environment of emotional safety. More from HRC.

THREE SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN HATE-MOTIVATED MURDER OF GAY GEORGIA MAN: DeKalb County police announced the arrests in connection with the June 4 shooting of Ronald “Trey” Peters, a 28-year old social worker in Decatur. More from NewNowNext.

LAS VEGAS EDUCATION PROGRAM OFFERS HELP TO PARENTS, LGBTQ YOUTH: “We want to be able to provide not only education and support, but we want to provide community,” said Holly Reese, engagement manager for The LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada (@TheCenterLV). More from the Las Vegas Review-Journal. 

GLOBAL EQUALITY NEWS

AMID PROTESTS, INDIA LEGISLATURE PASSES BILL TO EMPOWER TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY: More from The Wire.

RUSSIAN LGBTQ ACTIVISTS DETAINED AT ST. PETERSBURG PRIDE EVENT: The detentions follow the gruesome killing of LGBTQ activist Yelena Grigoryeva. More from The Moscow Times.

URUGUAY SHOWS SUPPORT FOR TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY, BLOCKS REFERENDUM UNDERMINING TRANS RIGHTS: More from Voice of America.

READING RAINBOW – Bookmark now to read on your lunch break!
The Hollywood Reporter shares that Victoria’s Secret hired Valentina Sampaio (@Valenttsoficial) as its first transgender model; The College Fix on the Brown University library’s extensive collection of LGBTQ pulp fiction.

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