Before Youngkin’s phone call, Reid said he was also pressed by a religious activist in Virginia to drop out after photos revealed him attending a drag show in Richmond. Since Herrity dropped out, Reid also said he received a deluge of requests insisting that he leave the race.
The parade will feature other notable figures, including Brazil’s first trans lawmakers, Duda Salabert and Erika Hilton; Rio state lawmaker Dani Balbi and Bruna Benevides, who heads Brazil’s trans rights group Antra. Benevides identifies as “travesti,” a term referring to a specific Latin American identity that activists say is claimed by people assigned the male gender at birth, but who experience the female gender and should be treated as such. She and Tuiuti say Manicongo was likewise a travesti.The specter of violence Manicongo faced five centuries ago hasn’t vanished.
Brazil remains the world’s deadliest country for transgender people, with 106 murders last year, according to Transgender Europe, a network of global nonprofit organizations that tracks the data. It marked the 17th consecutive year Brazil claimed this grim distinction.Transgender woman Andreia, left, greets fans during a Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school rehearsal for the Carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)Transgender woman Andreia, left, greets fans during a Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school rehearsal for the Carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Transgender women with the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school rehearse for the Carnival parade at the Sambodrome in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)Transgender women with the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school rehearse for the Carnival parade at the Sambodrome in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Transgender dancers with the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school rehearse in heels for the Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Transgender dancers with the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school rehearse in heels for the Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)His friend didn’t have the money or the will to fix up the house after her abusive husband moved out.
“I think house shaming is about comparison, but it can also be about a person’s own struggles,” he said.Barbara Fight was a TV producer for
for 12 years before going into home organizing in New York. She said house shame got way worse with the rise of social media and its idealized depictions of homes most people can’t afford or otherwise will never have.But there are lots of easy, inexpensive ways people can help themselves feel better about their living spaces if they so choose.