Anything That Moves was a literary, journalistic, and topical magazine published in the United States from 1990 to 2002.[1] It was created as an expansion of the San FranciscoBay Area Bisexual Network (BABN) newsletter by BABN member, Karla Rossi, in collaboration with bisexual and bi-friendly editors, writers, and artists to become a full 64-page magazine with an international subscriber base. The complete title of the magazine, Anything That Moves: Beyond the Myths of Bisexuality, was purposely chosen for its controversial nature, while its tag line indicated a clear intent to challenge stereotypes of bisexual identities and behaviors. The magazine took its name from the stereotype depicting bisexuals as willing to have sex with "anything that moves".[2]
The magazine's mission was to confront and redefine concepts of sexuality and gender, to defy stereotypes and broad definitions of bisexuals and to combat biphobia.
Anything That Moves 1994 manifesto. Online version (undated): http://atm.silmemar.org/manifesto.html
Anything That Moves Issue #7 Spring 1994 cover with Starhawk
Anything That Moves and other bisexual media experiences like LARKER offer bi communities important space to be themselves and see themselves. I've been grateful to snag several copies of Anything That Moves throughout the years, but the one with Starhawk on the cover is a personal favorite!
Somewhere out there, bisexual organizers are still hoping against hope to be included in the organizing for the new National LGBT Pride March. May the Lord Goddess bless and keep them!
One of my favs, Lynnette McFadzen, both a friend and colleague, asked for a letter of recommendation and this is what I came up with and just sent along.
Here's hoping that bi+ organizers organizing for bi+ communities also get tapped to be part of the organizing team! Feel free to use a template like this below for your own bisexual letters of recommendation! I honestly just copied Lynnette's approach when she submitted her own letter of recommendation for longtime bi advocate and new BiNet USA board member Ron Suresha.
What can I say? Bisexuals love to share!
XOXO,
Faith
Dear David Bruinooge and Members of Equality March Leadership,
I would like to strongly recommend Lynnette McFadzen, new President of BiNet USA and creator/producer of The BiCast as a National Co-Chair of The Equality March for Unity & Pride. One of the strongest and openly active bi advocates in the country today, Lynnette first came to prominence in the bisexual, pansexual, fluid, queer (bi+) community when she began The BiCast, the first podcast for the bi+ community. Visit the archives here. https://archive.org/details/@the_bicast
In the last 4 years, Lynnette McFadzen, has put nearly 200 interviews onto iTunes covering topics from A-Z of the bisexual community inluding critically important interviews with bi thought leaders and celebrities like gender/sexuality expert Robyn Ochs, Korean-American comic and advocate Margaret Cho, bi trans icon Julia Serano, BiNet USA co-founders Lani Ka’ahumanu and Loraine Hutchins and me!
In the last 3 years, Lynnette helped me organize 3 different conferences and meetings at President Barak Obama’s White House including the 2016 Rural LGBT America Summit at the White House, the 2016 Bisexual Community Briefing at the White House, and the 2015 Bisexual Community Briefing at the White House.
In the last 2 years, Lynnette has also co-organized several high profile events for bi and LGBT communities including day long institutes for the Task Force’s Creating Change conference and BiNet USA’s panel at the 2016 Comic Con in San Diego, CA which was called one of the most affirming moments of Comic Con by BleedingCool.com, one of the comic industries biggest blogs. Last year, Lynnette was also instrumental in generating over 200 million impressions for #biweek and bisexuality related social media content working alongside GLAAD and other LGBT organizations on Bisexual Awareness Week, a social media event I co-created that’s led to an inspiring amount of new bisexual activists just like Lynnette.
In any portion of the LGBTQIA community, I have found our newest members to be the most active, but what truly makes Lynnette a legend in the making, is how much she’s gotten done while also being a disabled bisexual demisexual asexual elder who lives below the poverty line. BiNet USA has proposed 2 different co-chairs to you from our organization and I urge you to consider all applications from bi+ organizers working for bi+ communities with the care and respect they have long deserved, and have yet to find, from national LGBT Pride Marches. Change must start with someone, so let it be you David!
“WHEN WE RISE” DID NOT JUST BRING UP LADY GAGA ON THE RANDO
Not One With You: Why Bisexuals Like Me Are Always Missing From Gay History
Remember that time a whole bunch of bisexual activists worked so hard to be nice about being left out of the Cleve Jones led March on Washington (MOW) in 2009? Remember those days when Faith cared a bit more about being a respectable bisexual?
Oh, those days? They are no more!
Remember when bisexuals shared name after name of amazing bi community advocates, experts, filmmakers and subject matter expert speakers with the 2009 MOW programming team? Remember when we stocked bi hopes in gay dreams?
Only to be told the ONE bi, pan, fluid, queer (bi+) community speaker at the March would be a musical icon who hadn’t yet identified herself as an activist for bisexual communities?
I remember, but did not see that history represented in ABC Network’s When We Rise, a television miniseries on the history of the LGBT movement.
From: Tanner E. (MOW March Coordinator) Date: 2009-09-30 18:12 GMT-07:00 Subject: Chat with Tanner E. To: thefayth 6:06 PM me: hi 6:07 PM this is faith, like thefayth.net and faith and all that Tanner: hi faith im on a conference call right now - so I apologize if I am not completely "here" me: oh gosh no nm, i just wanted to shake the tree on bi speaker for NME 6:08 PM i'll shoot u an email instead! Tanner: Lady Gaga is going to speak about being bisexual 6:09 PM me: hmm, no bi activists who have experience talking about marriage equality, fluid political and all that? any trans activists? Tanner: we have about 7 trans speakers 6:10 PM but yes, Lady Gaga, also the biggest celebrity on our stage, is going to have to represent the community me: and 1 bi speaker 6:11 PM who's not an activist, advocate or educator? 6:12 PM Tanner: Lady Gaga considers herself an activist and advocate me: sorry, i just burst into tears i gotta go
6:13 PM someone will be in touch, thanks for letting me know the decision!
Mad respect to Tanner (above) who was just relaying the message from Cleve Jones as multiple other sources at the time relayed to me. I do not share this information lightly, but since it directly relates to the discrimination and exclusion of bisexuals from the 2009 March, I do so now. So what was I, a reasonably new and obviously deeply invested bi activist, to do? After Tanner told me the above message in a Google chat? What do we bisexuals do when “LGBT” history is written about us, once more without us? With BiNet USA and other bi leaders, I threatened to protest the 2009 National March on Washington because Lady Gaga, who had yet to publicly identify herself as bisexual, could not be the only person representing the bisexual community that day. And I LOVE LADY GAGA!
I let the MOW team know we would call both gay and straight mainstream press about bisexual exclusion. I told them naked bisexuals would be at their gates if they did not have a speaker who represented us and our issues. For a little under an eighth of medicinal green, I hired some of L.A.’s best stand up comics and alternative songwriters to call a bisexual phone tree of organizers who then attempted to call all 80 people or orgs listed on the MOW website as co-sponsors to let them know they’d be getting protested with Cleve too. I think me and Sean Hart also went off and wrote a song about me growing up in San Luis Obispo, CA, called SLOW too. Hey, it was 2009, and before I had a kid, and was just working full-time, so I did bit more back then.
Simply put, we all raised hell across every state and Jones and his planning crew acquiesced and allowed a single bisexual activist speaker to introduce Lady Gaga. Tanner then told me “Cleve, says 2 bi speakers is OK as long as it’s not you” and while I’m an engaging and funny Black bi woman who had already been featured on an Emmy winning reality show on race co-produced by Ice Cube, I swallowed my disappointment. It was important to have a community speaker to represent us and it really did not have to be me.
The bi+ speaker the MOW programming team chose to introduce Gaga at the 2009 March did not use the word bisexual in her speech as much as I would have liked. To be honest af, having fought tooth and nail for one effing person who was a bisexual activist to appear, I did not respect her choice then as much as I do now.
The day of the 2009 March on Washington, a fluid bi queer woman of color, Penelope Williams, introduced Lady Gaga to the stage as a representative of the bisexual community. Before introducing Gaga, Williams took the opportunity to give voice to many without voice that day. She spoke in Spanish and in English because “that is who our movement is” she told me fiercely. Sí, Penelope, Yes!
And so bisexuals were there that important day in LGBT history, as we always are, with our hearts lifted in quiet and hardwon pride. We came as ourselves, and as the whole people we must be and as the large diverse movement we are to become. We are the caller outers, the out of liners, the ones who do not fit easily between, and may we always stay where Black bisexual poet June Jordan wanted us to be when she said:
As long as there are Gay and Lesbian Americans who view sexuality as the first and last defining facet of their existence, and who, therefore, do not defend immigrants against the savagery of xenophobic hatred, as long as there are Gay and Lesbian Americans who view sexuality as the first and last defining fact of their lives, then for that long I am not one with you and you are not one with me.
Was it convenient for the LGBT community to engage itself in diversionary tales such as When We Rise while Latinx communities are being quietly deported by the millions? When Muslims are fighting a ban on their travel based on their religion?
What does it mean for When We Rise to elevate a narrative of “gay rights” that excludes bisexual activism like BiPOL’s fights for Haiti or Dr. Alan Rockway’s Orange Juice Boycott at the same time today’s gay community outlets release “straight faced” reporting on President Trump making a gay man his NATO ambassador? With nary a mention of Mexicans, Central Americans, Muslims, Black Lives, Jewish cemeteries being desecrated on the regular and/or the dumpster fire that is otherwise called the Trump administration. #GAYMEDIASOWHITE indeed?
It should be no surprise that this When We Rise teachable bi moment is being brought to you by badass bisexuals of color who are content creators and activists, like actor and advocate Sara Ramirez, faith leader and bisexual.org author Eliel Cruz and YouTube sensation R.J. Aguiar alongside longtime leaders like BiNet USA’s new President Lynnette McFadzen, a demisexual asexual bisexual disabled elder and Bay Area Bisexual Network’s Martin Rawlings-Fein, a Jewish bi trans dad. Bisexual diversity, or what advocates throughout our history have identified as “biversity”, is and remains our greatest strength.
Real talk bisexuals, stay mad. I am extremely proud of all of you!
P.S.
I just got asked on Twitter by Dustin Lance Black to tell him more in a DM about bisexuals protesting in 2009! Sadly, I can’t DM him at the moment having learned a valuable lesson from bi woman of color comic, author, singer and fellow rape survivor, Margaret Cho who tried to help Tilda Swinton out before seemingly getting leaked by #whitefeminism. Most times it’s not to the benefit of women of color to have private behind the scenes conversations, especially when some folks are used to using women of color as cleanup.
Ah!
Maybe I’ll suggest we take what might prove to be an engaging conversation about LGBTQIA community inclusion to a more public forum. Maybe Dustin Lance Black and I can virtually visit with HuffPostLive’s lovely Jewish roller derby queen and proud bi queer Alex Berg!
Or find some other opportunity that represents the “pay Black women, love Black women, and respect Black women” approach to my life that I work towards these days! After a decade of unpaid bisexual advocacy, I no longer do bisexual work for free or without benefit to me.
When Will Black Women #GetSeen like for real, not gonna be #GetOut. Photo Credit: Faith
From my homie's homie I saw this, #GetOut Syllabus: Crystal Boson, PhD...well done work by Crystal Boson/americanexpat.com that speaks to why I did not go opening weekend myself, namely that the refrain of "SHOW BLACK WOMEN. PAY BLACK WOMEN. RESPECT BLACK WOMEN" was missing, both neatly and nearly entirely in the marketing of the film, Get Out.
You would think with the amount of people who say they love Beyoncé,
BLACK WOMEN WOULD BE SEEN MORE OFTEN IN FILM.
You would think with the amount of people who say they love Viola Davis,
BLACK WOMEN WOULD DIRECT MORE FILMS.
As a person in an interracial relationship, I believe you CAN include Black women's stories, fears, rage and tears just as much as every other.
I suspect and hope that Jordan is just getting started, but if Black men start getting paid to do excellent work that speaks to racial reality, can Black women see that dream come true more often too?
First on my list for a 4 picture deal too:
Dee Rees
Cheryl Dunye
Ava Duvernay
Of course, I'm still gonna see it cause I love Jordan Peele like I love my own child who may grow up to be like Jordan Peele if we're so lucky. Just glad to have a syllabus to hold onto when I go tho.
Town halls are traditionally used by congresspeople to hear from those that elected them. Wouldn't it be nice to see them packed to the brim with more kids like Toby Smith?
“Donald Trump makes Mexicans not important to people who are in Arkansas who like Mexicans, like me and my grandma, and all my people” - Toby Smith
Good job, kid! Wanna be like Toby? Check the #TobysList of upcoming town halls below!
February 24th
Marc Veasey (D-TX)
Date/Time: Friday, Feb. 24, 2017 / 7:30 AM – 9 AM CT
Location: Tia Dora’s Bakery and Cafe, 2478 W. Illinois Ave. , Dallas, TX
Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Date/Time: Friday, Feb. 24, 2017 / 8 AM – 9 AM CT
Location: Parkersburg Civic Center, 502 3rd St., Parkersburg, IA
Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
Date/Time: Friday, Feb. 24, 2017 / 9:30 AM CT
Location: Breaux Bridge City Hall, 120 Berard St., Breaux Bridge, LA
Please RSVP to Shawn Hanscom at Shawn_Hanscom@cassidy.senate.gov
Betty McCollum (D-MN)
Date/Time: Friday, Feb. 24, 2017 / 10 AM – 1 PM CT
Location: Hallie Q. Brown Community Center, 270 Kent St., Saint Paul, MN
Frank Lucas (R-OK)
Date/Time: Friday, Feb. 24, 2017 / 10 AM – 11 AM CT
Location: Events at 10 West Main, 10 W. Main St., Yukon, OK
Ron Wyden (D-OR)
Date/Time: Friday, Feb. 24, 2017 / 11:30 AM PT
Location: Astoria High School Auditorium, 1001 W. Marine Drive, Astoria, OR
Beto O’Rourke (D-TX)
Date/Time: Friday, Feb. 24, 2017 / 12 PM – 1 PM MT
Location: El Paso Public Library Main Branch, 501 N. Oregon St., El Paso, TX
Brian J. Mast (R-FL)
Date/Time: Friday, Feb. 24, 2017 / 1 PM – 2 PM ET
Location: Havert L. Fenn Center, 2000 Virginia Ave., Fort Pierce, FL
Let us know you’re coming: http://mast.house.gov/townhall
Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL)
Date/Time: Friday, Feb. 24, 2017 / 5:30 PM – 7 PM CT
Location: Roosevelt University, 1400 N. Roosevelt Blvd., Schaumberg, IL
February 25th
Gary Palmer (R-AL)
Date/Time: Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 / 9 AM CT
Location: Hoover Tactical Firearms, 1561 Montgomery Highway, Birmingham, AL
Mike Thompson (D-CA)
Date/Time: Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 / 9 AM – 11 AM PT
Location: Piner High School, 1700 Fulton Road, Santa Rosa, CA
Marcia Fudge (D-OH)
Date/Time: Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 / 10 AM ET
Location: Corporate College East Auditorium, 4400 Richmond Road, Warrensville Heights, OH
Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)
Date/Time: Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 / 10 AM – 12 PM MT
Location: Boys and Girls Club of Santa Fe, 6600 Valentine Way, Santa Fe, NM
Bill Huizenga (R-MI)
Date/Time: Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 / 12 PM ET
Location: Baldwin Senior High School, 525 4th St., Baldwin, MI
Ron Wyden (D-OR)
Date/Time: Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 / 12 PM PT
Location: David Douglas High School, 1001 SE 135th Ave., Portland, OR
G.K. Butterfield (D-NC)
Date/Time: Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 / 1 PM
Location: Hillside High School Auditorium, 3727 Fayetteville St., Durham, NC
This event is free and open to the public. Space is limited. Please register to attend below. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/the-office-of-congressman-butterfield-4755409471
Bobby Scott (D-VA)
Date/Time: Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 / 2 PM – 3:30 PM ET
Location: Paul D. Camp Community College, 100 North College Drive, Franklin, VA
February 26th
Ron Wyden (D-OR)
Date/Time: Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017 / 11:30 AM
Location: Gresham High School Auditorium, 1200 N. Main Ave., Gresham, OR
Brendan Boyle (D-PA)
Date/Time: Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017 / 1 PM – 2:30 PM ET
Location: First Presbyterian Church in Springfield, 1710 Bethlehem Pike, Flourtown, PA
Ron Wyden (D-OR)
Date/Time: Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017 / 2 PM PT
Location: Camp Withycombe, 15300 SE Minuteman Way, Clackamas, OR
February 27th
Mike Kelly (R-PA)
Date/Time: Monday, Feb. 27, 2017 / 7:15 AM – 8:15 AM ET
PARTICIPATION DETAILS: To participate, dial 877-228-2184 and enter event ID 19013 at the time of the event.
March 1st
Don Beyer (D-VA)
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 / 5:45 PM – 6:45 PM ET
PARTICIPATION DETAILS: 877-229-8493 Access code: 114941
Joe Wilson (R-SC)
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 / 6 PM ET
PARTICIPATION DETAILS Sign up here: https://vekeo.com/repjoewilson/
John Culberson (R-TX)
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 / 6 PM CT
PARTICIPATION DETAILS Sign up here to participate: http://culberson.house.gov/telephone-town-hall/
Mike Bishop (R-MI)
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 / 7 PM – 8 PM ET
PARTICIPATION DETAILS If you haven’t already been added to our list and are a constituent, call our team to join:
– Washington, DC office: 202-225-4872
– Brighton, MI office: 810-227-8600
Chris Stewart (R-UT)
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 / 7 PM MT
PARTICIPATION DETAILS Sign up here: https://vekeo.com/repchrisstewart/
March 3rd
Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
Date/Time: Friday, March 3, 2017 / 8:30 AM CT
Location: Butler Village Hall, 12621 W. Hampton Ave., Butler, WI
Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
Date/Time: Friday, March 3, 2017 / 9:30 AM CT
Location: Lannon Village Hall, 20399 W. Main St., Lannon, WI
Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
Date/Time: Friday, March 3, 2017 / 10:15 AM CT
Location: N64 W23760 Main St. Sussex , WI
Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
Date/Time: Friday, March 3, 2017 / 11:15 AM CT
Location: Merton Village Hall, N67W28343 Sussex Road, Merton, WI
Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
Date/Time: Friday, March 3, 2017 / 1:15 PM CT
Location: Nashotah Village Hall, N44W32950 Watertown Plank Road, Nashotah , WI
Mark Sanford (R-SC)
Date/Time: Friday, March 3, 2017 / 2 PM
Location: Technical College of the Lowcountry, 921 Ribaut Road, Beaufort, SC
Randy Hultgren (R-IL)
Date/Time: Friday, March 3, 2017 / 2:30 PM – 4 PM CT
Location: American Legion Fox River, 22 S. 2nd St., Geneva, IL
Derek Kilmer (D-WA)
Date/Time: Friday, March 3, 2017 / 5:30 PM – 7 PM PT
Location: 7th Street Theater, 313 7th St., Hoquiam, WA
March 4th
Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
Date/Time: Saturday, March 4, 2017 / 9 AM CT
Location: Delafield City Hall, 500 Genesee St., Delafield , WI
Anna Eshoo (D-CA)
Date/Time: Saturday, March 4, 2017 / 10 AM – 11:30 AM PT
Location: Campbell Heritage Theater, 1 W. Campbell Ave., Campbell , CA
Adam Smith (D-WA)
Date/Time: Saturday, March 4, 2017 / 10 AM – 11:30 AM PT
Location: The Rainier Arts Center, 3515 S. Alaska St., Seattle, WA
Space is limited so please RSVP by calling (425)793-5180 or Toll Free at (888) SMITH09. You can also email rsvpsmith@mail.house.gov
Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
Date/Time: Saturday, March 4, 2017 / 1 PM CT
Location: Lake Mills Public Library, 120 E. Madison St., Lake Mills, WI
Jim Himes (D-CT)
Date/Time: Saturday, March 4, 2017 / 2:30 PM ET
Location: University of Connecticut Stamford GenRe Auditorium, 1 University Place, Stamford, CT
Seth Moulton (D-MA)
Date/Time: Saturday, March 4, 2017 / 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM ET
Location: Reading Public Library Community Room, 64 Middlesex Ave., Reading, MA
March 5th
Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
Date/Time: Sunday, March 5, 2017 / 1 PM CT
Location: Juneau Community Center, 500 Lincoln Drive, Juneau , WI
March 6th
Derek Kilmer (D-WA)
Date/Time: Monday, March 6, 2017 / 5:30 PM – 7 PM PT
Location: Sequim High School Auditorium, 503 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim, WA
Donald Norcross (D-NJ)
Date/Time: Monday, March 6, 2017 / 6:30 PM ET
Location: Bellmawr Ballroom, 29 Lewis Ave., Bellmawr, NJ
Register here: https://sparkcreative.wufoo.com/forms/rjhfs8w1mz0lr0/
March 11th
Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
Date/Time: Saturday, March 11, 2017 / 9 AM CT
Location: Germantown Village Hall, N112W17001 Mequon Road, Germantown, WI
Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
Date/Time: Saturday, March 11, 2017 / 1 PM CT
Location: Brookfield Public Safety Building, 2100 N. Calhoun Road, Brookfield , WI
March 12th
Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
Date/Time: Sunday, March 12, 2017 / 1 PM CT
Location: Hartford City Hall, 109 N. Main St., Hartford, WI
March 13th
Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
Date/Time: Monday, March 13, 2017 / 7 PM CT
Location: Wauwatosa Public Library, 7635 W. North Ave., Wauwatosa , WI
Don Beyer (D-VA)
Date/Time: Monday, March 13, 2017 / 7 PM – 9 PM ET
Location: Gum Springs Community Center, 8100 Fordson Road, Alexandria, VA
March 18th
Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
Date/Time: Saturday, March 18, 2017 / 9 AM CT
Location: West Bend City Hall, 1115 S. Main St., West Bend, WI
Pete Sessions (R-TX)
Date/Time: Saturday, March 18, 2017 / 12:30 PM ET
Location: Richardson High School, 1250 Belt Line Road, Richardson, TX
RSVP here: https://sessions.house.gov/services/town-hall-meetings
Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
Date/Time: Saturday, March 18, 2017 / 1 PM CT
Location: West Allis Public Library, 7421 W. National Ave., West Allis, WI
March 19th
Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
Date/Time: Sunday, March 19, 2017 / 1 PM CT
Location: Richfield Village Hall, 4125 Hubertus Road, Richfield, WI
To honor Black History Month, NLGJA is highlighting the work of our members who have contributed to broader understanding of LGBTQ issues in the black community. Each year NLGJA honors journalists who write on a wide array of issues related to the LGBTQ community reaching different audiences across many platforms. This week we recognize Tre’vell Anderson, Dominic Holden and The Advocate magazine, all of whom have received recognition in our Excellence in Journalism Award program for their positive impact on the representation of the black LGBTQ community and diversity in the media.
Tre’vell Anderson’s L.A. Times article on the decline of black gay clubs in Los Angeles was runner-up for NLGJA’s Excellence in Feature Writing (Non-daily) Award. Anderson shows the importance of black-owned gay clubs at a time when racial discrimination was a major issue all over the country. “There was no space where black gays could enjoy themselves in one another's company,” writes Anderson, “escaping what they saw as the racial discrimination of West Hollywood and the homophobia of the African American community.” As a result of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Internet dating and other changes in the LGBTQ community, black gay bars have been going through financial hardship, resulting in the closure of the historic Catch disco in L.A. Now many in the black LGBTQ opt to spend their nights in West Hollywood, which shunned them only 40 years ago. The Advocate magazine received the Excellence in Profile Writing Award for its “40 Under 40: Intersectional Voices” spotlight. The Advocate featured many prominent, diverse members of the LGBTQ community including Alicia Garcia and Patrisse Cullors, two co-founders of Black Lives Matter, and Michelle Garcia, an NLGJA member and Race & Identities Senior Editor at Vox. The article underscores the important contributions of diverse, young individuals who have made significant contributions to the black LGBTQ community, as well as other minority communities.
Writing about the high rates of violence against black trans women in Detroit for BuzzFeed, Dominic Holden was runner-up for NLGJA’s Excellence in News Writing (Non-daily) Award. In the story Holden pushes back against the stereotype that violence against black trans women results from their involvement as sex workers. “The circumstances of each killing are different, and by no means is sex work a common thread among all transgender women or among those who were killed,” writes Holden. “Still, in several cases in recent years, cops have treated transgender women as sex workers regardless - sometimes making arrests and then releasing the women - even though there was no evidence of sex work.” Holden’s article challenges stereotypes based on assumptions about race and gender identity, and promotes better understanding of an often marginalized community. The deadline to nominate someone for one of NLGJA’s Excellence in Journalism Awards is approaching fast, so remember to submit your nominations soon! More information can be found on NLGJA’s website.
OH MAN! NO WAY YOU DID NOT JUST ACKNOWLEDGE A WHITE GUY FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH!
