NY Times to LGBT Community: 'That Will Be All There Is From Us'
Filed By Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | May 16, 2012 10:30 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2012/05/ny_times_to_lgbt_community_that_will_be_all_there_is.phpImagine for a moment, that tragedy has struck your family or friends. A suspicious late night fire broke out, and although many people were saved, your family member, your friend, died in the fire. You read this in the newspaper as the first sentence in the story:
She was 25 and curvaceous, and she often drew admiring glances in the gritty Brooklyn neighborhood where she was known to invite men for visits to her apartment, her neighbors and the authorities said.
Curvaceous? Gritty neighborhood? Inviting men for visits? She is dead, for God's sake, a young woman burned to death in a suspicious fire. Ah, but this is a transgender young woman of color, and the headline screams "Woman In Group Of Transgender Performers Dies On Brooklyn Fire."
Lorena_Escalera.jpgAt least they acknowledged that her gender identity was that of "woman." So then why these quotes?
