Hoshino’s Light Bird Transition Is “Alright”
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Danni Hoshino discusses her upcoming single and experiences as a transgender woman, alongside LGBTQ news and notable birthdays.
Danni Hoshino brings us a preview of her Transgender Day of Visibility single release, “Alright”! The veteran folk-rock musician surprised everyone — not least herself — when she came out as a transgender woman in 2022, just weeks before her planned wedding. Gender identity wasn’t the only thing that changed. She relocated, became Light Bird on stage, and began working on a soul-baring new album that’s expected out in June (interviewed by David Hunt). Birthday wishes to the multi-award-winning Rachel Maddow, the first openly lesbian prime time news anchor in the United States, multi-award-winning David Hyde Pierce, best known for his portrayal of psychiatrist “Niles Crane” on the popular sitcom “Frasier,” and multi-award-winning Black and gay science fiction writer memoirist, and critic Samuel R. “Chip” Delany, known for groundbreaking works like “Dhalgren” and “Babel-17” — all in the Rainbow Minute, along with some memorable dates (written by Sheri Lunn, produced by co-host Brian DeShazor. And in NewsWrap: India’s transgender people are stripped of their rights under a new law that upends their legal recognition process, the International Olympic Committee’s revived “sex…
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