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Ariel Murtagh
Ariel Nicholson Murtagh (born 2001) is an American model and LGBT rights activist. She was the first openly transgender model to walk in a fashion show for Calvin Klein (company), Calvin Klein and the first openly transgender person to appear on the cover of ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue''. Nicholson has also been featured on the cover of ''Italian Vogue'' and ''Love (magazine), Love''. Early life Nicholson was born and raised in Mahwah, New Jersey. At an early age, she told her parents that she did not "belong as a boy" and, in fifth grade, began using female pronouns and taking Lupron to suppress the effects of male puberty. She was also seeing a therapist from the Ackerman Institute for the Family at the time. When she was in eighth grade she was featured in the PBS documentary ''Growing Up Trans'', where she talked about her decision to go on Estradiol (medication), estradiol. Career While she was a high school student, Nicholson signed with DNA Model Management. She was chos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LGBT Rights
Rights affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people vary greatly by country or jurisdiction—encompassing everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty for homosexuality. Notably, , 33 countries recognized same-sex marriage. By contrast, not counting non-state actors and extrajudicial killings, only two countries are believed to impose the death penalty on consensual same-sex sexual acts: Iran and Afghanistan. The death penalty is officially law, but generally not practiced, in Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Somalia (in the autonomous state of Jubaland) and the United Arab Emirates. As well as, LGBT people face extrajudicial killings in the Russian region of Chechnya. Sudan rescinded its unenforced death penalty for anal sex (hetero- or homosexual) in 2020. Fifteen countries have stoning on the books as a penalty for adultery, which would include gay sex, but this is enforced by the legal authorities in Iran and Nigeria (i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
