Laverne Cox

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Laverne Cox attends Beautycon Festival NYC 2018 - Day 1 at Jacob Javits Center on April 21, 2018 in New York City



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Laverne Cox attends the 29th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at The Hilton Midtown on May 5, 2018 in New York City.

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Gay Time's Gay Pride issue, 2018

On her #TransIsBeautiful hashtag: “We still need to be empowering trans folk to think beyond the binary and to embrace ourselves no matter how we look or where we are in our transition. I think there’s still these cis-normative beauty standards that we hold trans people up against and next to, and that’s deeply problematic. I started the #TransIsBeautiful hashtag to empower trans folk to love all the things that make us uniquely and beautifully trans. It’s not about embracing cis-normative or white supremacist beauty standards, but about embracing what you got going on.”

On attending conversion therapy as a child: “My third grade teacher called my mother on the phone and famously said, ‘Your son is going to end up in New Orleans wearing a dress if you don’t get him into therapy right away.’ I went into this reparative therapy of sorts – that was awful, horrible and shaming, and that was a moment that really instilled in me that I shouldn’t be as feminine as I was and should try to act differently. I did, kind of, but couldn’t really help myself and who I was.”

On receiving hate on social media: “There’s **** going down in the comments section where people are so mean and hateful to each other. That’s an unfortunate side effect of social media, but free speech brings that and we have to learn to fortify ourselves when all that comes at us; I’m saying that to myself now. I try to stop reading when I see negative stuff and I don’t ever engage with anything negative – that’s super important.”

For more from Laverne, visit GayTimes.co.uk.

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Laverne Cox at Champions of Pride event, June 1, 2018

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Laverne Cox co-hosts the Los Angeles Confidential Celebration for Portraits of Pride With GLAAD and Laverne Cox, June 4, 2018

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Laverne Cox supports 'Who Do You Think You Are?' at FYC event, June 5, 2018

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Laverne Cox and boyfriend Kyle Draper at MAC cosmetic launch in LA, June 15, 2018

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"Laverne Cox is on the cover of Self‘s latest issue, which is out now.

Here’s what the 46-year-old Orange Is The New Black actress had to say…

On dating: “I wanted a man to validate my womanhood or validate that I’m attractive…I’m not buying it anymore. I’m not buying into that, I’m not having it. I’m sexy and I’m going to own that because I think trans women…are sexy. A lot of us are sexy not despite our transness, but because of our transness. That’s just the truth.”

On how her view of herself changed:“When I started transitioning 20 years ago, the goal of transitioning was not to be openly trans…the goal of transitioning as presented to me by all the trans women that I admired was that you transition and you go and disappear and don’t tell anyone your business…there were a lot of times over many years I went through the world not leading with being trans, but someone always knew. I had to really get to a place in my life where I was able to be good with being trans or I was going to have to ***********.”

On the importance of “cheesy” self care affirmations: “There’s a bit of cynicism that I, too, have had about doing affirmations, but it’s really a wonderful thing. Sometimes you say it until you believe it. I can’t say I haven’t looked in the mirror and said, ‘Work, b*tch’…loving myself is a practice. It is something that I must cultivate and it is something that I must consciously do or it will go away.”

For more from Laverne, head to Self.com."


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Laverne Cox attends the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show at Pier 94 on November 8, 2018 in New York City.

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Laverne Cox attends Lancôme x Vogue Holiday Event at Delilah West Hollywood on November 29, 2018 in West Hollywood, California.

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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JANUARY 06: Laverne Cox attends the 2019 InStyle and Warner Bros. 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards Post-Party at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 6, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for InStyle)

 

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Laverne Cox attends Entertainment Weekly Celebrates Screen Actors Guild Award Nominees sponsored by L'Oreal Paris, Cadillac, And PopSockets at Chateau Marmont on January 26, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.

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Laverne Cox attends the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 27, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.

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Laverne Cox of "Orange Is The New Black" at the Empire State Building on July 26, 2019 in New York City.

Laverne Cox attends the "Orange Is The New Black" Final Season World Premiere at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on July 25, 2019 in New York City.

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Laverne Cox, LGBTQIA+ advocate, actor and producer

"I'm here to highlight the profound humanity that transgender people of all kinds possess."

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Laverne Cox attends the 2019 Creative Arts Emmy Awards on September 15, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.

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Laverne Cox attends the 71st Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 22, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.

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Laverne Cox attends The 2020 InStyle And Warner Bros. 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards Post-Party at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 05, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California.

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Out Magazine February/March 2020



Tipped

Photographer: Camila Falquez
Stylist: Yashua Simmons, Julian Mack
Grooming: Kiyonoro Sudo
Hair: Bradley Irion
Makeup: Deja Smith
Manicure: Eri Ishizu
Cast: Chella Smith, Laverne Cox




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AMAs 2020, 11/22/20​

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