Danni Hoshino brings us a preview of her Transgender Day of Visibility single release, “Alright”! The veteran folk-rock musician surprised everyone — not least herself — when she came out as a transgender woman in 2022, just weeks before her planned wedding. Gender identity wasn’t the only thing that changed. She relocated, became Light Bird on stage, and began working on a soul-baring new album that’s expected out in June (interviewed by David Hunt).
Birthday wishes to the multi-award-winning Rachel Maddow, the first openly lesbian prime time news anchor in the United States, multi-award-winning David Hyde Pierce, best known for his portrayal of psychiatrist “Niles Crane” on the popular sitcom “Frasier,” and multi-award-winning Black and gay science fiction writer memoirist, and critic Samuel R. “Chip” Delany, known for groundbreaking works like “Dhalgren” and “Babel-17” — all in the Rainbow Minute, along with some memorable dates (written by Sheri Lunn, produced by co-host Brian DeShazor.
And in NewsWrap: India’s transgender people are stripped of their rights under a new law that upends their legal recognition process, the International Olympic Committee’s revived “sex testing” process for all women] effectively bans trans and intersex women from competing in Women’s Events, CBS Studios and Paramout Plus are pulling the plug on allegedly “too woke” Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Michael Lebeau and Nico Raquel (News Editor Ebony Joseph, News Producer Brian DeShazor).