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Japan: Nippon Television’s Tanio Toshimi on Being True to Oneself

Transgender commentator Tanio Toshimi debuted on News Zero around the time that Diet member Sugita Mio made headlines for describing the LGBT community as childless and “unproductive.” While LGBT people working in entertainment are by no means unusual, Tanio is currently the only such individual appearing on a Japanese news program. We asked Tanio about coming out to her employer as transgender and her decision to join News Zero.

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US: Ellen Page calls out powerful bigots on The Late Show

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On Thursday’s Late Show to promote her new Netflix series The Umbrella Academy, an adaptation of Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s Dark Horse Comics series about a family of grown-up child superheroes, Ellen Page, instead, used her network airtime to fight some real-world evils.

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US: After ‘Empire’ actor’s alleged assault, his upset fans are coming to the aid of NC college

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The campaign to save North Carolina’s Bennett College has drawn some high-profile supporters, including Jussie Smollett, the “Empire” actor who this week reported he was attacked in Chicago by two masked men who uttered racial and homophobic slurs.

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US: The Jussie Smollett attack is so personal for black LGBT people because we know it could have been any of us

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The "Empire" actor's work matters particularly to people who seek inspiration while enduring multiple, concurrent forms of prejudice.