I met Don Lemon last night at The Trevor Project fundraiser
Don Lemon presenting last nightDon Lemon, the CNN anchor who came out as an openly gay man in May, was a presenter at this year’s The Trevor Project fundraiser gala in New York last night. Lemon, who is African American, spoke truth to power when he suggested on stage that the LGBT establishment should include more LGBT people of color.
The man has a very valid point!!
I am very proud that Lemon used his time on stage to highlight the issue of the lack of ethnic diversity by certain LGBT media outlets, organizations and leadership roles. I think he was generally speaking, and not necessarily about The Trevor Project.
Also, all the images of women of transsexual history I see on TV are all white.
Many transgender (not to be confused with transsexual) images on TV are either “gay male drag queens gone transgenderist impersonator”, or “heterosexual white male transvestite fetishists who cross dress”.
Can we have some actual women who are just women who happen to have a transsexual medical condition, not only drag queen and transvestite males?
Despite what the TV show Glee tells the world, there are actually LGBT/TS/Intersex people of color in society.
Way to take a stand Lemon!
The man has a very valid point!!
I am very proud that Lemon used his time on stage to highlight the issue of the lack of ethnic diversity by certain LGBT media outlets, organizations and leadership roles. I think he was generally speaking, and not necessarily about The Trevor Project.
Also, all the images of women of transsexual history I see on TV are all white.
Many transgender (not to be confused with transsexual) images on TV are either “gay male drag queens gone transgenderist impersonator”, or “heterosexual white male transvestite fetishists who cross dress”.
Can we have some actual women who are just women who happen to have a transsexual medical condition, not only drag queen and transvestite males?
Despite what the TV show Glee tells the world, there are actually LGBT/TS/Intersex people of color in society.
Way to take a stand Lemon!
"Can we have some actual women who are just women who happen to have a transsexual medical condition, not only drag queen and transvestite males?"
ReplyDeleteExtremely valid question...but the only problem there is that those of us who fit the 'just women' category are, from the media standpoint, 'just average.' Further, many of us who fit in that category (no matter the race) are not looking necessarily to BE in the media, creating a Catch-22 to effecting a remedy.
To be honest, I almost long for a return to the days where there were not people looking to count who and how many of what categories were included in various shows. Do we REALLY need media producers to be in a position to offer up a James Watt-esque recitation of program composition? (yes, I know that the Watt reference shows my age).
Could not a valid argument be offered that rather than spotlighting and drawing attention, the persons of transsexual or intersexed medical histories are almost better served simply by being viewed by society as the run-of-the-mill men and women that they are?