Transgender Style Icon Candis Cayne Honored by Stonewall Democrats

[Shana A]

Transgender Style Icon Candis Cayne Honored by Stonewall Democrats
Thursday Jul 21, 2011

http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=style&sc=&sc2=features&sc3=&id=122361

Los Angeles, California - The Stonewall Young Democrats (SYD), whose mission is to represent and mobilize Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning and Allied (LGBTQA) youth within the Democratic Party, today officially announced the 2011 HERO Award Honorees. The 5th Annual HERO Awards are sponsored by The Honorable Betty Yee and are hosted by Actress and MadTV's Debra Wilson.

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· Visionary Award: Candis Cayne. Candis Cayne is an American Actress & Performance Artist. Cayne came to national attention in 2007 for portraying transgender mistress Carmelita on ABC's prime time drama Dirty Sexy Money. The role makes Candis Cayne the first transgender actress to play a recurring transgender character in prime time.

[Padma]

The Stonewall Young Democrats (SYD), whose mission is to represent and mobilize Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, [er... Transgender?!? remember the T??,] Queer/Questioning and Allied (LGBTQA) youth...

Oops, they missed out the Trans in their list there...

I've emailed the press office to suggest they edit their copy .

*update* ...and they've edited it (and thanked me ) so I've corrected the copy in the OP.