VIDEO: The beautiful way this iconic San Francisco drag queen is dealing with self-quarantine
A drag queen’s best friend…

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Dark Sky and Apple, Cape Cod, Lorena Borjas, Carole Baskin, Zoom Hackers, Prince Harry, Gayme Show: HOT LINKS

RIP. Transgender activist Lorena Borjas dies of COVID-19. “Borjas, 60, emigrated from Mexico in 1981 and became a staunch civil rights activist, considered by many a pioneer in defending the rights of Hispanic and undocumented transgender individuals, NBC 4 New York’s sister station, Telemundo 47, reports. According to the Transgender Law Center, Borjas helped countless transgender women like herself survive sex trafficking and other abusive situations.”

THE EASTER PLAN. Trump dropped it after seeing opinion polls. “Political advisers described for him polling that showed that voters overwhelmingly preferred to keep containment measures in place over sending people back to work prematurely.”

THE SUSSEXES. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle clap back at Donald Trump over security bluster.

LATE NIGHT CONVO OF THE DAY. Stephen Colbert and John Oliver: “It’s great to be with you. It’s like staring into my own anxieties right now. It’s such a comfort to see your face because your eyes are also screaming ‘what the f*ck is happening?’”

JARED KUSHNER. Trump son-in-law’s firm built coronavirus website Trump promised. “On March 13, President Donald Trump promised Americans they would soon be able to access a new website that would ask them about their symptoms and direct them to nearby coronavirus testing sites. He said Google was helping. That wasn’t true. But in the following days, Oscar Health—a health-insurance company closely connected to Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner—developed a government website with the features the president had described.”

TRUMP’S BLAME LIST. It’s growing…

CAROLE BASKIN. Tiger King subject issues point by point response to the show.

UNITED KINGDOM. Coronavirus testing kits contaminated with coronavirus: “Laboratories across the country were on Monday warned to expect a delay after traces of the virus were detected in parts due for delivery in the coming days.”

DARK SKY. Apple has bought the popular weather app, will shut down Android version.

HOOP SKIRTS. The fashionable history of social distancing.

ZOOM. Lawsuit claims the videoconferencing company is illegally disclosing personal data: “The company collects information when users install or open the Zoom application and shares it, without proper notice, to third parties including Facebook Inc., according to the lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in San Jose, California. Zoom’s shares have more than doubled this year as investors bet that the teleconferencing company would be one of the rare winners from the coronavirus pandemic.”

NIKKIETUTORIALS. Beauty blogger who recently came out as transgender says Ellen DeGeneres was very cold to her.

BROOKLYN. Man arrested for hoarding masks, coughing on FBI agents: “Baruch Feldheim, 43, is facing charges of assault and making false statements to the feds on Sunday outside his Borough Park home where he allegedly peddled and stored massive amounts of N95 respirator masks, federal officials said.”

CAPE COD. Year-round residents launch petition to close the bridges: “A Change.org petition to close the bridges, which had nearly 5,000 signatures by Monday afternoon, states: ‘Stop the spread of covid-19 close the bridges.  only year round residence, medical personnel. Trucks that deliver essential supplies.  While we love our tourists and summer residents this is not the time to come to the cape, out hospital can’t handle it. We only have 2 small hospitals here on cape, and limited medical staff.
keep the residences and elderly safe on cape.’”

NEW JOB OF THE DAY. Sean Hayes becomes a Girl Scout.

TRAILER OF THE DAY. Gayme Show on Quibi.

BRIEF COMEDY SKETCH OF THE DAY. Where are my texts?

TIME OUT TUESDAY. DJ Sam Gee.

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Celebrating the Voices of Our Bi+ and Trans Community

As a community, we must uplift the voices of bisexual, pansexual, queer, fluid and transgender people as these voices are too often unheard. 

With studies showing that bi+ people comprise nearly half of all people who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual, the bi+ population is the single largest group within the LGBTQ community. 

Moreover, transgender people and people of color comprise large portions of the bisexual community –– with more than 40% of LGBTQ people of color identifying as bisexual, and about half of transgender people describing their sexual orientation as bi+ –– making these groups vulnerable to further disparities that occur at the intersections of biphobia, racism and transphobia.

In honor of International Transgender Day of Visibility and Bisexual Health Awareness Month, members of HRC’s staff share what it means to live at the intersection of these identities,  what visibility and resilience means to them and what it means to live at the intersection of these identities. 

“Being bi and trans means I have to assert my identity or it will get assumed away. It means knowing who I am even if others don’t see me. You can be bi/pan/fluid/queer and a non-binary, binary trans or gender non-conforming person. You can be anything that feels right to you. Don’t sacrifice who you are because others want to put you in a box.” –– Colin Kutney | He/Him/His | Senior Manager, State & Municipal Programs. 

“Resilience as a trans woman means thriving in spite of all the systems that challenge my very existence. Systems, including access to gender affirming legal documents, culturally appropriate health care, patriarchy, financial inequity and transphobia are stifling and difficult barriers for trans folks to overcome. TDOV is important because greater visibility helps to normalize trans lives in a way that brings positive changes through representation. I encourage trans youth to continually seek positive people and resources that affirm the entirety of who you are. Transition is a lifelong process, so pace yourself and make healthy decisions for you now and in the future.” –– Tori Cooper | She/Her/Hers | Director of Community Engagement. 

“To me, resilience as a pansexual and non-binary person means working through years of folks invalidating my sexuality and gender, navigating years of self-doubt and confusion not because of myself, but others, and coming out stronger. Resilience means finding others who are like you and basking in your shared community and understanding of the world. Resilience means looking back at my 15-year-old self and thanking them for their courage, bravery and strength in pushing through all the hardships so that I could flourish today. I love that TDOV intersects with Bi Health Month, especially since such a huge percentage of the trans and gender-expansive community is bi+. It feels like a time to celebrate so many intersections of my identity, which I’m not always allowed due to policing of my gender expression or sexuality from folks within and outside of the LGBTQ community as a non-binary pansexual person. It’s also a time to make sure I’m getting check ups and taking care of my health. There are so many obstacles bi+ folks can face in terms of receiving proper health care, especially their sexual health, from fear of discrimination to income-related barriers.” –– Pallavi Rudraraju | They/Them/Theirs | Youth Well-Being Program Coordinator.

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