Featured guest: Alix Smith.
Summary: The episode begins with a segment about hate speech and its impact on violence against LGBT people. The next segment spotlights photographer Alix Smith, whose work seeks to expand public perception by framing LGBT families into conventional portraits.
Featured guests: Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens, Tiki Barber, Ben Cohen, Hudson Taylor, Isis King, Janet Mock.
Summary: This episode pays particular attention to hate speech and anti-gay vocabulary in the media. It begins with a rebroadcast of a segment from episode 2012 about the treatment of homosexuality in sports. The A Conversation with… segment features transgender model Isis King discussing representations of transgender people in media with transgender advocate Janet Mock.
Summary: The first episode of the final season begins with a segment about how anti-LGBT rhetoric is changing as cultural acceptance of LGBT people grows throughout the United States and overt hate speech becomes less acceptable. The In the States segment focuses on Minnesota, looking at the LGBT experience in public schools, harassment of LGBT students and a proposed initiative to limit marriage to heterosexual couples.
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