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VIDEO: Wilson Cruz and Janet Mock on "Melissa Harris Perry"

GLAAD's Wilson Cruz, writer and activist Janet Mock and New York City Council candidate Mel Wymore appeared on a Sunday segment of MSNBC's The Melissa Harris Perry Show. The panel discussed the announcement made by GLAAD President Herndon Graddick at the recent GLAAD Media Awards that the organizational mission would now include a focus on transgender and bisexual equality.

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"The organization has formally dropped the words 'Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation' from its name and will be known going forward as simply GLAAD, the LGBT media advocacy organization," reports the organization. "Accompanying the change in name is a renewed commitment to incorporate bi and trans people, as well as allies from diverse backgrounds in GLAAD's work to shape the media narrative and build public support for the LGBT community."

Numerous studies have shown that Black and Latina trans women are at the greatest risk of violence and the murders of Black transgender women are often unsolved. Black trans women face "extreme discrimination and poverty", and are more than likely to suffer from violence, physical or sexual abuse, police brutality, HIV/AIDS and bullying, according to a first of its kind survey conducted by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Black Justice Coalition.

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VIDEO: Melissa Harris-Perry and Michael Eric Dyson on Frank Ocean

As usual, MSNBC's The Melisa Harris-Perry Show was required viewing over the weekend. Harris-Perry explored hip-hop singer and songwriter's Frank Ocean's groundbreaking announcement that his first love had been a man.

"Homophobia has long been as much a part of hip-hop as beats and rhymes," said Harris-Perry. "Where even the slightest hint of same-sex attraction is followed by the phrase 'no-homo.' In speaking his truth so honestly, Frank Ocean not only showed courage, but challenged hip-hop to face some of its demons."

MHP's guest was the Rev. Michael Eric Dyson, the brilliant author, radio host and professor of sociology at Georgetown University. Dyson recently slammed anti-gay Black pastors who criticized President Obama's embrace of marriage equality.

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