Tag: Emmys

  • Primetime Emmy Nominations get queerer by the year

    Primetime Emmy Nominations get queerer by the year

    There has deservedly a lot of attention being played in the media right now about Mj Rodriguez’s historic lead-actor Emmy nomination for her performance as Blanca on FX’s Pose — the first time for a trans person.  But she is part of a whole slate of queer talent that is also being nominated for their outstanding work on…

  • Lena Waithe wins an Emmy & acknowledges her LGBTQIA family

    Lena Waithe wins an Emmy & acknowledges her LGBTQIA family

    (Photo by Phil McCarten/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images)[/caption] Lena Waithe, actor and writer on Netflix’s Master of None, who deservedly made history when she won best writing for a comedy series at the Emmys Sunday night, quoted Congresswoman Maxine Walters with her “Let me reclaim my time’. Waithe the first African-American woman to win in…