Caitlyn Jenner for the second time in three months is again on a Vanity Fair cover. This time it’s a special edition.
It’s been an exciting couple of months for Caitlyn Jenner. Coming out as transgender in an ABC News interview with Diane Sawyer, having a debut on the cover of Vanity Fair, breaking a Twitter record for number of followers of a new account, getting a Huffington Post column and an E! reality TV show, getting an ESPY award and delivering an awesome speech, and now, getting another cover of Vanity Fair.
“The edition, on newsstands this week, profiles cultural pioneers such as Caitlyn Jenner, Chaz Bono, and Reneé Richards, among many more,” Vanity Fair explains. “Their stories point both to the massive cultural shifts underway in America’s attitude towards its transgender citizens, and the life-and-death battles many of them still face.”
VF has chosen a small handful of transgender people, and attempts to head off likely criticism given recent events.
“Sadly, in the weeks since the edition was sent to print, at least six transgender women of color were lost to senseless violence. The publications involved in creating this special edition share in the grief surrounding these tragedies. It is the hope that this issue, on newsstands this week, will help educate people and underscore the efforts of those who have helped promote wider understanding of transgender people.”
What’s inside?
“Vanity Fair: Trans America includes Buzz Bissinger’s full Vanity Fair profile of Caitlyn Jenner, photographed by Annie Leibovitz; an interview with Mixed Martial Arts fighter Fallon Fox, by Nancy Hass for GQ; and a Vogue piece by Alice Gregory on Make Up for Ever’s new face (and reputed new Taylor Swift BFF), Australian supermodel Andreja Pejic. In addition, the issue features a helpful primer on transgender history, a look at gender roles and expression in the movies, and a photo portfolio of the transgender names you should know. Also included is a 1997 New Yorker essay by the late John Gregory Dunne on the assault and murder of Brandon Teena and two companions, a horrific crime that would inspire the 1999 film Boys Don’t Cry.”
Some of that criticism includes a swipe by Styleite’s Eliza Dillard, who writes it’s “a bummer that VF has made Caitlyn Jenner their cover star again.”
“We get it. Caitlyn Jenner sells,” Dillard says. “She looks hot behind the wheel of whatever luxe vehicle she’s supposed to be driving. But she doesn’t have to be the only face of the transgender community.”
What do you think? Overexposure? Or an issue whose time has finally come?
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