Even as AG/POS Jeff Sessions attempts to take down trans Americans because — well, it’s unclear why — there’s still enough general joy and togetherness within the trans community to make beautiful things like the TransNation Film Festival happen. Set for October 13 to October 15 at the Silent Movie Theater in West Hollywood (an…
America’s horrifying, ongoing violence towards the trans community may be making headlines in 2017, but trans people have been all but forgotten by the media and their neighbors until quite recently. Enter the new Netflix documentary The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, which explores the death of a pioneering trans woman (Johnson) in…
The debate over who threw that first brick during the Stonewall riots will rage on forever, but Marsha P. Johnson’s name will always be part of the conversation as she and fellow trans activist pal Sylvia Rivera were definitely on the frontlines of the historic event in June 1969. The next year the two would…
