Well, I think I took the same approach that I took in life, which was I didn’t necessarily have a Facebook announcement moment or like a “stop it all, everything changes” moment. I really just kind of wanted to become who I was supposed to be and continue to do what I was always meant to do – and I did! I just kind of morphed myself into a trans woman[laughs]and continued to kind of go about my daily life.

Cynthia Nixon is super busy. She’s starring on Broadway, alternating lead roles with Laura Linney in Lillian Hellman’s 1939 play “The Little Foxes,” for which she’s getting a torrent of rave reviews. She’s on movie screens across the country, too, as the 19th century poet Emily Dickinson in Terrence Davies’ brilliant biopic, “A Quiet Passion,” which is also earning herstunning accolades.

Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people across the country were appalled and angered when Roy Cooper, the newly elected Democratic governor of North Carolina, shoved LGBTQ rights aside shortly after an election in which LGBTQ activists, in North Carolina and beyond, helped him win. And now we may be seeing Democratic governors across the country join him in this effort.

Many of Rodgers’ contributions to musical theater, of course, have gone on to become staples of Americana. Though musicals like “Carousel” and “The Sound of Music” have been performed countless times around the world, Porter feels the political messages at the core of those shows still resonate today.

That’s the message she had for Diane Sawyer ― and the millions of people who tuned in for her second in-depth interview on ABC’s“20/20” to celebrate the anniversary of coming out as transgender in April 2015. “I’ve grown into Caitlyn,” she told Sawyer on Friday night. “It’s tough to take 65 years of being Bruce and being male, and then like, overnight, everything changes. At first you don’t know how to handle it.

But the crucial work Boylan has contributed to illuminating the lives and experiences of trans people spans decades. Her writing regularly appears in the New York Times, she’s served on the faculty of a number of universities, including Barnard College of Columbia University, where she currently teaches, and her 2003 memoir She’s Not There: A Life in Two Gendersbecame a bestseller.

This week,the New York Timespublished an editorial headlined, “The L.G.B.T Trump Fallacy,” in which the editorial board explained that, “the nomination of several key officials [within the Trump administration], who have disparaged the L.G.B.T. community and sought to curtail the rights of its members, has exposed the narrative that Mr. Trump would be a champion of gay and transgender people as a fallacy.

In our modern age of online dating and internet hook ups, dick pics, for better or for worse, have become a kind of digital currency ― especially for gay men. Hop on Grindr or Scruff or any other web app designed to connect men looking for love ― or just someone to get off with ― and it won’t be long before you’re asked to show exactly what you’re packing.

The Out Front Theatre Company’s production of“The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told” doesn’t officially open until April 27, but has already deemed “blasphemous” by America Needs Fatima.Paul Rudnick’s 1998 comedy follows Adam and Steve, a gay couple who navigate the centuries with Jane and Mabel, who are lesbians.

Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam broke boundaries by becoming the first African-American woman on New York State’s highest court, and the first Muslim woman to serve as a judge in the United States. Tributes to the “trailblazing”woman poured in on Thursday, after local media reported that she had been found dead the night before in the Hudson River. Investigators are treating her death as a suicide.