Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Saturday, July 11, 2020

Valentina Sampaio Makes Trans Modeling History Again!

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23 year old Brazilian model Valentina Sampaio is getting quite accustomed to making history., In 2017 she became the first out trans mod...
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Monday, August 05, 2019

Victoria's Secret Hires First Out Trans Model

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It came after their stock price dropped 40%, they had to close 53 stores across the USA, their CEO Jan Singer resigned, they announced the...
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Thursday, January 24, 2019

MIQ 2016 Runner Up Competes In 2019 Miss Rio Pageant

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The date and site for the 2019 Miss Universe pageant has yet to be determined, but Angela Ponce's historic trip to Bangkok to compete ...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Afro Brazilian Trans Woman Gets Elected In Brazil!

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There were over 50 trans candidates running in Brazil for various seats at all levels of the Brazilian government when their election took...
Monday, October 01, 2018

Brazilian Trans People Running For Office

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It was nearly 20 years ago when Georgina Beyer made international news by being elected to the New Zealand Parliament on November 27, 1999...
Friday, April 06, 2018

Justice For Dandara!

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You may recall the vicious February 15 beating and murder last year of 42 year old Brazilian trans woman Dandara dos Santos by several  ...
Sunday, January 28, 2018

Paula Oliveira Becomes First Trans Miss Bum Bum Contestant

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One of the most interesting pageants that happens in Brazil is the Miss BumBum one. It started in 2011, and has women from each of Braz...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Brazilian Trans Community Embraces Hit Soap Opera 'Edge Of Desire'

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Here in the US, we not only get to see ourselves represented on screen, we are at the point that we have trans actors playing the trans ro...
Friday, January 13, 2017

Valentina Sampaio Appears On Cover Of Brazilian ELLE

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While we were embroiled in the final stages of our contentious presidential election, there was a little trans history being made in Brazi...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

2016 Olympics Watch- Darn, It's Over

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The 2016 Rio Olympic Games are coming to a close today, and far from Donald Trump's loud and wrong assertion that the USA doesn't ...
Saturday, August 20, 2016

2016 Olympics Watch-Semenya Wins Gold!

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Well haters, Caster Semenya handled her Olympic business and won the 800m gold that eluded her in London.   Semenya won her race in a ...

2016 Olympic Watch- Going For The Sixpeat!

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The five time defending Olympic champion USA women's basketball team has been marching toward this hopefully golden moment ever since ...
Friday, August 19, 2016

2016 Olympics Watch- Caster Semenya To 800m Final

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I was happy to see Caster Semenya of South Africa after all the drama she has been through since bursting into the world's consciousne...

2016 Olympics Watch- Watching Legends Win

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I've been watching the Olympics since the 1968 Summer Games in Mexico City, and have been fortunate to be around to see some legendary...
Tuesday, August 09, 2016

2016 Olympics Watch- USA Women Ballers Rolling In Group Play

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The USA women's ballers started this Olympic tournament heavily favored to win their sixth straight gold medal since 1996, and were ca...
Monday, August 08, 2016

2016 Williams Watch-Shocking Olympic Exits

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This Olympic trip to Rio has not been a good one so far for my fave tennis playing siblings. On Saturday I got to painfully watch fifth se...