POZ’s December 2019 issue honors 100 advocates who are transgender, gender-nonconforming and nonbinary. Â
In this issue, we also highlight the first National Trans Visibility March on DC, 25 years of personal stories from POZ and the executive director of the Oakland, California-based MPact Global Action for Gay Men’s Health and Rights.Â
Below is an excerpt from the POZ 100:
The 10th annual POZ 100 arrives as the FX series Pose and its cast receive both accolades and eyeballs, bringing transgender storylines, often including HIV, into countless homes across the globe. Then there’s Jonathan Van Ness, the nonbinary Queer Eye star who put HIV back in headlines and Twitter feeds when he recently disclosed his status.
This was also the year the Trump administration launched efforts to allow discrimination against trans people in the military and under the Affordable Care Act, and it was the year in which 18 trans women were murdered (as of press time). On a brighter note, 2019 marked the first National Trans Visibility March on DC, proving that the TGNCNB community is resilient and ready to fight.
