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  • LGBTQ Icons Define What ‘Pride’ Means to Them

    Editor’s note: For Pride Month, The Root and Jezebel are teaming up once again for JezeRoot, with content by writers of color around everyday life for LGBTQ individuals. Pride Month is here, and JezeRoot is back! This month, we celebrate the beauty and vastness of the LGBTQ community and its contributions to this world—and what…

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    Felice León

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  • Queen Sugar Actor Comes Out as Transgender—on His Own Terms

    The character of Toine Wilkins, a transgender police officer on OWN’s critically acclaimed series Queen Sugar, is the first trans person Brian Michael Smith has ever portrayed, and is perhaps the first portrayal of an African-American trans man on a major television show. Since beginning his professional acting career some six years ago, Smith has…

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    Angela Helm

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