Metro Weekly magazine, 2020-12-24 — Hope for the Holidays
By Metro Weekly Contributor
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December 24, 2020
Featured:
- DC’s LGBTQ bars scramble to adapt to the plan to temporarily ban indoor dining
- Forum: Hope for the holidays
- Wonder Woman 1986
- And lots more….
Recently released data from a national survey of transgender and nonbinary individuals reveals that detransitioning is not as common as opponents of transgender rights assert, and that the overwhelming reason for detransitioning is rooted in social stigma and lack of support.
Recently released data from a national survey of transgender and nonbinary individuals finds that detransitioning is far less common than anti-trans activists claim. When it does happen, it’s largely due to external pressures like stigma and lack of support, not regret over transitioning.
In a tense House hearing, a pair of congressional Democrats blasted Pentagon officials for stripping gay rights icon Harvey Milk’s name from a Navy ship, accusing the military of erasing LGBTQ history. U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen (D-Ill.), an out gay Democrat, directly confronted Navy Secretary John Phelan over the decision during the June 11 Armed Services Committee meeting.
"I just wanted to take a moment to talk about a veteran who served on a submarine as a diving officer during the Korean War," Sorensen said, referring to Milk's biography before actually naming him.
"This kind of theater is what I live for," says Bruce Randolph Nelson. "High comedy, high camp, ridiculous, outrageous, the more the better."
Donning an assortment of wigs and frocks and false teeth to perform multiple roles, Nelson is currently starring alongside Zack Powell in Everyman Theatre's vigorous and hilarious production of Charles Ludlam's quick-change horror spoof The Mystery of Irma Vep. He starred in Everyman's first go at the play, a hit 2009 production directed by Ludlam's partner, Everett Quinton.
