HRC Names Tesla Best Place to Work for LGBTQ in 2021

The results of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) are in, and Tesla again is one of the “Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality.” Tesla’s 2021 CEI rating marks the seventh time the manufacturer has received a high HRC rating, despite the recent flip-up by the current CEO.

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‘Veneno’ Producers Insisted on Casting Trans Performers to Play 1990s Trans Icon Cristina Ortiz

“La Veneno’s reality wasn’t seen before,” Jedet said. “We weren’t used to having a woman like her on the TV but the country fell in love with her. But it was for a short period of time because when the show ended, she had nothing. She was kind of a lost woman. She didn’t know what to do and she was surrounded with the wrong people.

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TMP’s 20 Most Inspiring Trans & Non Binary People of 2020

The year is almost done with my Friends of TMP. What a year we’ve had, filled with fear, sorrow and bullies. Now more than ever we need some hope and inspiration. I must thank our Friends of TMP, for whom these past 2 years this list would not have been possible. So many have written, re shared, re tweeted our old top 20 listings and requesting a return of TMP’s year end top 20.

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Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., Passive Transphobia, and the Purpose of Comedy

In stand-up comedian Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix special entitled Sticks and Stones, the comedy master left no stone unturned regarding subjects to commentate on. As has always been true with Chappelle’s particular brand of comedy, he went to some very controversial places with his jokes, some of them once again dipping into the waters of […]

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