There were 28 transgender delegates at the Democratic National Convention this past week. They gathered on Thursday.
Twenty-three of the delegates gathered for the picture below.
Welcome to Video News! My apologies for no official DNC video news open thread yesterday. But Oreo the Diabetic Pootie had a crisis at 3 AM yesterday, so Ginger and I were up half the night. Oreo and Ginger seem to have recovered in full, so we have resumed normal function.
At some point today, Sarah McBride will speak for five minutes on the stage of the DNC and become the first transgender person to speak to a major party convention.
Preparatory to that event, Sarah spoke yesterday to Katie Couric of Yahoo news and Katy Steinmetz of Time magazine.
I am moved and inspired that there will be a chance for someone on a stage at a national convention to say that they are a transgender person. And my hope is that for anyone who is watching, who worries that their dreams and their identity are mutually exclusive, who worry about whether they can be accepted and succeed as who they are, that they can find some comfort and some hope in the fact that a person will be standing on that stage saying those words.
--McBride
Welcome back to Video News! It was an odd weekend. As many of you know, the convention has been almost overshadowed by the scandal of the DNC emails that were leaked proving that the primaries were rigged by the "neutral" DNC. But Bernie did speak at the convention last evening. If you missed it, I'll let Stephen Colbert fill you in:
Two transgender women have been selected to important roles at the Democratic National Convention this week.
Short and sweet, cuz lunchtime is almost over, but I had to post this. The way it's reported seems....intriguing to me:
Where they want to take the convention. If you think Nevada was fun, hold on to your hat!
https://theintercept.com/2016/05/11/lobbyists-dnc-2016-convention/
"But the 2016 convention in Philadelphia will be officially hosted by lobbyists and corporate executives, a number of whom are actively working to undermine progressive policies"
On 29 July 2015 Bernie Sanders held a nation wide live video stream house party. The idea was to get supporters together and start organizing. I wanted to see the video and maybe get involved so in the days leading up to the 29th I looked on line and the nearest one was almost an hour away. I’m lazy. Too far.
