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Title: "Heroes" Star Greg Grunberg Tweets Transphobia
Post by: Shana A on December 07, 2009, 11:57:48 AM
"Heroes" Star Greg Grunberg Tweets Transphobia
Filed by: Rebecca Juro
December 6, 2009 4:30 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2009/12/heroes_star_greg_grunberg_tweets_transphobia.php#more (http://www.bilerico.com/2009/12/heroes_star_greg_grunberg_tweets_transphobia.php#more)

Since I started using Twitter several months ago, I've built up quite the list of personal friends and aquantances as well as media folks and celebs who I find interesting. In addition, I'm always looking for new and cool tweeters to add to my list. In using Twitter, I've found that I can often glean new insight into the kind of person a Tweeter really is through their 140 character posts. In most cases, what I've learned makes me like and respect that Tweeter and their work all the more. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work that way.

Last night, I noticed a tweet arrive from renowned transgender author Kate Bornstein. It was directed toward the Twitter feed of Greg Grunberg, one of the stars of the hit NBC television series "Heroes" (in the role of telepathically-powered policeman Matt Parkman), and it said: