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Title: Wanted: Transgender actors for Hollywood, little experience required
Post by: traci_k on August 25, 2015, 06:56:55 AM
Wanted: Transgender actors for Hollywood, little experience required

http://news.yahoo.com/wanted-transgender-actors-hollywood-little-experience-required-111235778.html;_ylt=A0LEV7zbVtxV9TQAuU4nnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByMjB0aG5zBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--

Reuters via Yahoo NewsBy
Jill Serjeant
August 25, 2015

NEW YORK (Reuters) - When director Sean Baker was looking for transgender women to appear in his indie movie "Tangerine," he did not turn to a traditional talent agency. Instead, he found them through a Hollywood LGBT center.

As the producers of daytime CBS soap "The Bold and the Beautiful" were developing a transgender storyline this year, they approached the advocacy group GLAAD for leads on casting.

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Title: Re: Wanted: Transgender actors for Hollywood, little experience required
Post by: Eva Marie on August 25, 2015, 09:25:35 AM
Whatever you do don't read the comments after the article - its the usual hateful peanut gallery posting ignorant comments.