Trans in the Media: A Call to Elevate the Conversation
Posted by: Janet Posted date: August 24, 2011
http://janetmock.com/2011/08/24/transgender-don-lemon-chaz-bono-joy-behar/Recently, I read a Tweet from Laverne Cox, reality television producer and actress, that she'd be on The Joy Behar Show with Chaz Bono of the Emmy-nominated documentary Becoming Chaz, Harmony Santana, star of Gun Hill Road, and America's Next Top Model Isis King. I was elated, as this appeared to be a groundbreaking panel not only with Trans folks, but moderated by CNN host Don Lemon, a newly out gay man of color.
On Monday night, I set my DVR, told my boyfriend Aaron to keep quiet, and stayed up past my bedtime to only be dumbfounded by the interview, where Lemon asked Bono some pretty inane questions. The CNN achor, who was leading the conversation in Behar's absence, seemed to have unknowingy communicated his own insensitivity to trans folks' struggle when he asked Bono the most insensitive of his slew of questions:
crossposted at PHB
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/19775/guest-post-trans-in-the-media-a-call-to-elevate-the-conversation
