The Bud Light Party: Labels

“From the start of our campaign at the Super Bowl, The Bud Light Party has rallied around bringing people together,” said Alex Lambrecht, vice president of Bud Light. “In our newest spot, Seth and Amy remind Americans that labels belong on beer, not people—a message Bud Light proudly supports.” 

“When a brand like Bud Light shows support for the transgender community, it makes a difference,” said Nick Adams, GLAAD’s Director of Transgender Media. “Not only does it help bring more visibility to the trans community, it also inspires other companies to do more to show their support. This ad also includes out trans actor Ian Harvie, which puts a face on the trans community and gives a trans person the opportunity to appear in a high-profile spot like this one.”

Target To Install Gender-Neutral Bathrooms In All Of Its Stores

Target drew praise from LGBT rights advocates in April when it announced it would allow customers to use the bathroom of the gender with which they identify. The new single-stall bathrooms, which are by definition gender-neutral, seem meant to assuage the concerns of customers uncomfortable with this policy and will provide a third option for all customers.

But Boylan confirmed that Target continues to welcome transgender individuals to use a bathroom of their choosing.

As a result, the new move can be seen as a deft effort to calm critics without fundamentally altering its policy. In fact, it may even be seen as an expansion of the policy, given that customers who identify as genderqueer may feel most comfortable in a bathroom that allows them to eschew identification with either gender.

GLAAD calls for increased and accurate media coverage of transgender murders

In the first seven months of this year, the deaths of 16 transgender people have been reported. That’s a rate of more than two transgender people killed every month. This number does not include transgender people whose deaths were not reported due to misgendering in police reports, news stories, and sometimes by the victim’s family.

The most recent victim is Dee Whigham, a 25-year-old Black transgender woman who was stabbed to death in a hotel near Biloxi, Mississippi on Saturday night. Whigham worked as a registered nurse in Hattisburg, Miss.

GLAAD is calling on the media to:

• Report on each transgender person murdered. In order for people to be aware of the unprecedented violence affecting the community, the public needs to know it is happening. The media has a responsibility to communicate about the deadly realities faced by transgender people.

• Respect and use the lived identity, name, and pronoun of the victim. Disregarding the victim’s gender identity and misgendering them in news reports adds further insult to injury, compounding the tragedy by invalidating who the victims were. GLAAD’s Doubly Victimized: Reporting on Transgender Victims of Crime offers clear guidelines for reporting respectfully on stories where transgender people have been victimized by crime.

There Are More Than Two Dozen Transgender Delegates At The Democratic Convention

Logo political correspondent Raymond Braun reports there are at least 27 trans delegates at this year’s convention.

In 2012, there were a reported 14 openly trans delegates.

How Coming Out As Trans To My Family Made Me An Activist

I grew up in a very sheltered, fundamentalist Christian home. Our family values were almost to the point of asceticism; you were taught to feel guilty all the time, to feel like everything that your brain and your heart desired was intrinsically evil, something you had to purge yourself of.

Even when I was able to identify my desires as a child, I felt like they were something I had to suppress, because it was selfish to even think about indulging them. Mine was a childhood of confusion and frustration and feeling like there was always something different about me, something I couldn’t quite put my finger on.