Rachel Brosnahan presents the GLAAD Media Award to Pose for “Outstanding Drama Series” at the 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. For more information about the #GLAADawards visit glaad.org/mediaawards
You should be proud regardless of what anyone outside of your skin thinks feel or say because you're the only one that has to live within said skin be yourself unapologetically
I’m gay but I was no ally to trans community coz I thought they were just desperate people looking for attention. Not until later when I started working with these AMAZINGLY talented trans co-workers that I started to understand how stupid and self-serving I was for not embracing that part of my community. Watching Pose made me feel so ashamed and disgusted of myself for harboring such negative notion towards trans men and women who are actually more braver than me to challenge the norm. I’m humbled to experience and witness a show that can viscerally affect me and change the way I think, feel, and live.
Really nice of you to share your experience and so happy for the ending. I am a heterosexual woman and a proud LGTBIQ ally. I believe that EVERYONE should watch this show, it truly could help to change a lot of narrow-minded people out there. Let's spread the word, all human beings deserve respect and love, no matter what because we are all part of this world. PERIOD!
Omg my experience was very similar. I had so many extremely narrow minded thoughts about the trans community. This show opened my eyes, ears, and my heart. I was able to leave my ego behind and actually do the research. Love Pose, love the trans community. Proud member and accomplice of the LGBTQ+ community.
We should set our differences aside. We are more alike than we think. We all want to be happy regardless of what it takes for us to achieve our happiness. If we were all happy, nobody would be trying to inflict harm or hatred upon others. Our differences are minor in comparison to what we all have in common. We all have the same basic needs; to be loved, to be happy, to love, to be helped, to thrive, to live, to breathe, live our truths, to get by in this world, etcetera. Those things are true for all of us. Humankind truly is the most cruel of all species, but we do not have to be. Nothing is being won by inflicting violence, discrimination, abuse, mistreatment, & harassment upon others, so why do it? Let people live their lives & be happy & you live your life & be happy.
as a gay trans-ally (well actually i keep it like MADONNA- im an ally to everybody whos is discriminated against...) i am so happy to see more and more job adds (in germany) that say "m/f/i" (well in german its "m/w/d"):-))you cant stop progress!!!
Ive known trans-people, since I was kid of 11 and 12 yrs old, living in the gay district of Dupont Circle in my hometown, Wash, DC, when my folks broke up and eventually divorced and me and Mother moved from suburban MD, to NorthWest/DC....and I can think of a number of situations during that time living in that neighborhood, where I didnt relaize me and my Mother were interacting and socializing with trans women, until I was a grown, gay man myself. I would think back to certain scenarios and have these ah-ha moments, as I remembered a particular thing that one of my Mom's trans or gay friends would say, that implied they were trans or knew someone who was. Im talking the mid-late 70s on thru the very early 80s, when some of these same people, started dying of AIDS. So, my history with the trans-community has always been one of sympathy, understanding, love and tolerance...and just treating them like ordinary folk...having conversations with them about anything but their hormone shots or reassignment surgeries. That was the kind of stuff that my Mother NEVER discussed with them, because she wanted them to understand that as far as she was concerned, if they looked like women or men and wanted to be called women or men, thats how my Mom treated them, irrespective of what sex they were when they were born...with no judgement...most of these friends of ours, were black or from Spanish speaking countries (a lot like the characters from Pose) And as irony would have it, the communities that were the most judgemental in those days, were the so-called, straight, black community and from time to time, the gay, white community.....altho' in DC, where the general population of the city, was and still is, heavy with black residents..the gay, white community there has, for the most part, gotten along very well with the black community, be them trans, gay or straight. And in all honesty, down thru the years, Ive known several gay white friends or acquaintances, who literally moved to DC, because it was a city that the black community has always thrived in and nurtured.
