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LGBTQ Family & Parenting News Roundup 2018
At Love Comes First we keep up on the latest in LGBTQ family and parenting news, and share relevant stories with our followers.
Here are the some of the biggest and best stories from 2018 - if you know anyone who might be interested please share!
https://lovecomesfirst.com/news/lgbtq-family-parenting-news-roundup-2018/
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Johansson bowed out of the film “Rub and Tug” after facing backlash for her decision to play a trans man, which she initially defended. “I’ve learned a lot from the community since making my first statement about my casting and realize it was insensitive,“ she told "Out” magazine. Her casting was criticized by trans actors Trace Lysette, Jamie Clayton and others who argued that transgender actors should play transgender roles. more here(x)
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People took to the streets in celebration in India after its Supreme Court struck down a 157-year-old colonial-era law, “Section 377,” that criminalized all sexual activity apart from heterosexual sex as “against the order of nature.” Judges described the law as “arbitrary” and said that freedom could only be fulfilled where the LGBT community possesses equal rights.( Getty Images)
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The national conversation about trans identity and community tends to focus on the newest crop of trans youth. But why don’t we hear about older trans and gender-nonconforming individuals who manage to overcome the at times seemingly impossible odds and survive — and thrive — in America?
Photographer Jess Dugan’s latest project To Survive on This Shore aims to bring attention to those voices. For over five years, Dugan and social worker Vanessa Fabbre have traveled across the United States photographing and interviewing older trans and gender-nonconforming individuals to ensure their stories, largely untold, are finally shared. See more here (x)
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