The Daily Beast asks Steve : We’ve seen a lot of progress in terms of marriage equality the past couple of years. What do you see as the next frontier for LGBT rights?
Well we can’t forget about the T in LGBT. I think now it’s our trans brothers and sisters that we really need to allow to take the lead. We need to listen to them and support them the way they have supported us all these years. I feel like they’ve put their needs, they’ve taken a backseat, to really help marriage equality come through and help people accept gay people better but that doesn’t necessarily help trans people. I think we need to be there to support them now. There’s a lot of issues that community faces that gay and lesbian people don’t have to face. There’s issues of what bathrooms they can go to and there’s blatant discrimination against them and even the way society thinks of gender is problematic for the way they see themselves and want to be seen by society. We have a long way to go. We’re really just beginning now so we really need to allow trans people to take the lead.
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Steve Grand will be featured later this week on our sister site GayQube.com.
MySoCalledGayLife.co.uk agrees with Steve Grand, and that’s why we started to publish more transgender related news in 2015 – We started in the end of 2014 – but our goal is to be better in focusing on transgender equality in 2015 and we think we are on our way to achieve that goal. We hope the transgender community also sees our focus.
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