Author Armistead Maupin joined Cher and fans around the world to mourn the death last week of award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis. Dukakis was the first actor to play a transgender character on American television.
Here in California, Caitlyn Jenner, a transgender woman who announced her run for Governor in California, told a TMZ reporter last week that she opposes transgender girls participating in girls’ sports in school because it isn’t fair to biological boys.
And here locally, Sonoma County Pride organizers announced a month-long Pride celebration this June themed “Beyond the Rainbow.” This year’s pride celebration promises to be the biggest yet here in Sonoma County with events happening every week, all month long.
(Photo: Olympia Dukakis - Montclair Film, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)