Vote now for LGBTQ Nation’s 2022 Hero who Stood Up with Dignity
B. Pagels-Minor, a former Netflix employee who organized protests of Dave Chappelle’s transphobic comedy special; Barbra Seville, a drag queen that stood up to a GOP politician and brought receipts; Maia Kobabe, a nonbinary author who found emself at the center of the right’s book-banning craze; Adrian Jawort, who sued a pastor who lied about her and misgendered her… and won; and HRC legal director Sarah Warbelow, who testified in Congress about LGBTQ people’s rights in the wake of Roe being overturned and stood up to a Republican Congressman who was erasing bisexual people.The nominees for Hero who Stood Up with Dignity came out, fought back, and stood tall.
Vote now for LGBTQ Nation’s 2022 Hero who Stood Up with Dignity.B. Pagels-Minor“There’s no longer tolerance for intolerance,” B.
Pagels-Minor, the former Netflix program manager, wrote in an editorial for The Washington Post, following a walk-out they helped organize at the streaming giant in October.Pagels-Minor had been fired the week before.The facts are in dispute, but Netflix claims the former program manager leaked viewer metrics about Dave Chappelle’s stand-up special The Closer, a day before they and the Trans* Employee Resource Group at the company organized the walk-out.
Pagels-Minor denies the charge.The show premiered October 5th and ignited a firestorm among the trans community and allies, because Chappelle has described himself as a TERF and made transphobic and homophobic jokes.“We could have been seen as partners, our opinion valued and considered,” they said. “Instead, Netflix ignored us.”The walk-out attracted hundreds of protesters and a media circus to the streamer’s headquarters in Hollywood, helicopters circling.“We in the trans community know.
