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Saturday, June 6, 2015

(OUT on the RED CARPET) CLASSIC: Laverne Cox on the CHALLENGES!

FROM 5/3/14:
NY GLAAD AWARDS

Unfortunately, Our Pal, Laverne Cox, did not make it to our section of the Red Carpet at this year's GLAAD Media awards. The now A-List,  Cox was in the midst of Speaking Tour of College campuses. Our NY Corespondent, Damon Jacobs chatted with Cox about Challenges on the Red Carpet at the 2014 Awards.


Since then, Cox was Challenged: According to Wiki, Cox has had quite a year as she went from the D List to the A List:
  • Cox was on the cover of the June 9, 2014, issue of Time; this makes Cox the first openly transgender person on the cover of Time.
  • Later in 2014 Cox became the first openly transgender person to be nominated for an Emmy in an acting category: Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Sophia Burset in Orange Is the New Black.
  • Also in 2014, Cox appeared in John Legend's video for the song "You & I (Nobody in the World)".
  • Cox also joined a campaign that year against a Phoenix, Arizona law which allows police to arrest anyone suspected of "manifesting prostitution", and which she feels targets transgender women of color, following the conviction of activist (and transgender woman of color) Monica Jones.Cox stated, ""All over the country, trans women are targeted simply for being who they are. Laws like this manifestation law really support systematically the idea that girls like me, girls like me and Monica, are less than [others] in this country.
  • Cox was featured in the annual "Rebels" issue of V in late 2014. For the issue, V asked celebrities and artists to nominate who they saw as their personal rebels, and Natasha Lyonne nominated Cox. Cox was also on the cover of the October 2014 issue of Essence magazine, along with actresses Alfre Woodard, Nicole Beharie, and Danai Gurira.
  • On October 17, 2014 Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word, an hour-long documentary executive-produced and narrated by Cox, premiered on MTV and Logo simultaneously. In 2015, the series won a Daytime Emmy.
  • Also in 2014, Cox was featured on the fifth anniversary cover of C☆NDY magazine along with 13 other transgender women – Janet Mock, Carmen Carrera, Geena Rocero, Isis King, Gisele Alicea, Leyna Ramous, Dina Marie, Nina Poon, Juliana Huxtable, Niki M'nray, PĂȘche Di, Carmen Xtravaganza and Yasmine Petty.
  • In 2015,  Cox (among others) posed nude for the Allure annual "Nudes" issue, becoming the first openly transgender actress to do so. Thank You, Laverne Cox!

The Following Interview is Raw and Unedited:

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