A Salute to Utah’s Quiet Heroes
If you lived through the 1980s, you probably remember it as a time of fear and struggle for the LGBT community. Ronald Reagan was the President, and his administration ignored the AIDS crisis as most of an entire generation of gay men lost their lives. To live in the country’s biggest cities with HIV/AIDS was bad enough, but at least in those places there was a queer community and medical help. Meanwhile, in the rest of the country, the fear of AIDS and the failure of many members of the medical field to even work with AIDS patients meant that people like Salt Lake City’s Dr. Kristen Ries became experts in the field of care. Ries and assistant Maggie Snyder made house calls, provided education, and helped patients in the extremely conservative and religious area when others shunned them.
Earlier this year, at the Sundance Film Festival, a documentary about Ries, Quiet Heroes, from directors Jenny Mackenzie and Jared Ruga, debuted to standing ovations. Now that film about one woman’s fight against ignorance, bigotry and time will debut Aug. 23 on Logo. If you weren’t there, you owe it to your sense of history to watch it.
One to Watch: Nicole Maines
Laverne Cox kicked open the door, Pose sashayed through it, Sense 8 made it so cool it got itself cancelled, and now Nicole Maines is going to be a superhero. Forgive that one-sentence-long, woefully incomplete primer on the current state of transgender actors and stories on TV, but it’s important to remember that we are currently in a pop culture revolution of sorts and it’s very exciting to see it unfold on our screens. Next in line? Supergirl, the little superhero show that keeps on kicking.
We already reported that the series planned to add a transgender character, and now that incoming additional superhero, Nia Nal/Dream Girl, has an actress to play the role. Nicole Maines, the focus of a groundbreaking lawsuit when she was in school (surprise, they didn’t want her using the bathroom, so she sued and won) and the subject of the book Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family, has been cast in the part. She’s still new on the acting scene – she’s played a trans teen in one episode of Royal Pains – so we can’t really tell you much about her, but we’re going to assume she’s here to stay. Next stop: find a trans man to fill that ScarJo role.
Romeo San Vicente can, from memory, and for the sake of journalism, rank all Comic-Con cosplaying Wolverines in order of animal attraction.
source https://hotspotsmagazine.com/2018/08/15/hollywood-news-utahs-quiet-heroes-nicole-maines/
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