As those of you who have been keeping up with moi know, been getting honored with a lot of awards this year, and in some cases, like the B...

ESSENCE is the iconic Black women's magazine in our community, and over the last few years I have noted them making an increasing effo...

Was happy to hear that Philippine Rep. Geraldine Roman was recently named to Foreign Policy Magazine's 100 Global Thinkers List . So...

While I don't do what I do human rights wise to get awards, it sure is nice when that hard work fighting for people's human rights...

I've known this was coming for a few weeks, but OutSmart, our local TBLG community publication in honor of Black History Month starti...

It's the TransMusePlanet fourth annual poll of the 20 Most Influential Trans People and as a testament to the increased visibility of ...

Laverne Cox keeps making history, and I'm so proud of her as she does so. Laverne not only was named to the 2015 People Most Beautif...

OutSmart Magazine in honor of Women's History Month put together an article honoring Houston BTLQ women who are running thangs, rising l...

While I was taking the rest of the day off  so I could binge watch Hit & Miss and see a few other movies,  I received word via my Faceb...

Laverne Cox has broken historic ground on a number of fronts in 2014, but I discovered another historic first that she'd accomplished wh...

Been a while since I've had the pleasure of signal boosting a TransMusePlanet post, but this is one that needs the extra eyeballs on it....

In a year in which a teen has won a Nobel Peace Prize, and is garnering attention as an emerging leader in the Hong Kong democracy protest...

Last year Alberto Mendoza unveiled the inaugural version of the Honor 41 List, which serves to honor and highlight the contributions of LGBT...

What would your reaction be if an institution magazine sought public input into who should  make its annual influence list, a person got t...

In 1901 a clandestine Mexico City party was raided and 41 people were arrested .   Half of those 41 people were dressed as women (and some...

Yes, one of the things that people do not realize is that we get the good with the bad in a gender transition.   One of the bad things inh...

I'm usually paying attention when Black LGBT leaders lists are put together by media outlets geared toward people of color. I've fo...

One of the reasons I became a trans activist a decade ago was because of my pissivity over a relatively melanin free IFGE list of out and pr...

Educator Marva Collins once said 'readers are leaders'. Nowhere has that statement proven to be so emphatically true as to note th...

While on a Blue Bell ice cream run I happened to see at the checkout counter the August 2008 issue of EBONY magazine. The EBONY editors dec...