In the first week of 2017, the killings of 28-year-old Two-Spirit transgender woman Jamie Lee Wounded Arrow and 41-year old Black transgender woman, Mesha Caldwell, have been reported.
Here a few of the newly introduced LGBTQ characters that stood out in film, documentary, TV, video games, and comics in 2016 for telling original stories and giving a voice to underrepresented identities.
