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Lizzo Gifted Her Dress to This Writer to Wear to the Out100 Party

Thanks to the "About Damn Time" singer, 2022 Out100 honoree Aurielle Marie will be serving looks at this year’s celebration!

Aurielle Marie is one of the honorees in this year's Out100 for her accomplishments in the literary and publishing fields.

To attend the official Out100 party, Marie took to social media and asked none other than Grammy-winning popstar Lizzo to borrow a dress that they could wear for the celebration. But it was a "cold call," of course, because what were the chances that Lizzo would see this request and would send out such a dress to someone she didn't yet know on a personal level?

Well... it worked! This week, Marie received a package at their house containing the dress that she wanted to borrow from Lizzo. The writer documented the entire process in a TikTok video that has now gone viral on various social networks.

Marie wrote in the caption:

"I might've gotten a few tears on your dress Lizzo, my bad babe! Words don't suffice, and thank you isn't enough. But THANK YOU! I'm speechless. Y'all! A b*tch is certified LIZZO SIZED!!!!!! And LOOK AT THIS GOWN! Out Magazine here I come!"

As a poet and essayist, Marie said in their Out100 profile that they "couldn't imagine some words on a thin page doing as much liberatory work as our protesting or grassroots organizing." Now, Marie is one of the most important LGBTQ+ voices in the literary world.

Not only will Marie have a great night at the Out100 party for being one of the honorees, but she now also has an incredible story behind the dress that they're wearing for the event.

Lizzo is the best - and we're so excited for Marie to have the night of her life!

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Bernardo Sim is the deputy editor of Out, as well as a writer and content creator. Born in Brazil, he currently lives in South Florida. You can follow him on Instagram at @bernardosim.

Bernardo Sim is the deputy editor of Out, as well as a writer and content creator. Born in Brazil, he currently lives in South Florida. You can follow him on Instagram at @bernardosim.

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Laverne Cox champions trans joy in face of 'catastrophic' times

"Girlies, we need to laugh right now," said the transgender actress, while sharing a Daily Show clip lampooning Melania Trump's hat.

Laverne Cox is urging trans people to hold onto joy in the second term of Donald Trump's presidency.

Trump began his second term Monday as U.S. president, and already things are looking bad for trans people.

After Trump attacked trans people in his inauguration speech and then in several executive orders he signed, Emmy-nominated actress and host Laverne Cox posted a video on Instagram featuring a Daily Show clip of comedian Jon Stewart making fun of first lady Melania Trump's hat that she wore at the inauguration.

"Girlies (girlies in this context is gender neutral or fully gender expansive whichever you prefer. Yes we're still doing that here despite executive orders. Gurl!)," Cox wrote alongside a video of Stewart claiming that Melania wore the wide-brimmed hat so that Trump couldn't get close enough to kiss her. "Girlies, we need to laugh right now. We need to find our joy right now. Even in the face of the most catastrophic of circumstances our ancestors and transcesters found a way to dance, sing a song, poke fun at the absurdity. This is not a substitute for real liberation, freedom. But we can and might I suggest 'should' do both for our mental health, for that freedom that lives inside that no government can take from us."

In his inaugural address, Trump declared, "As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female," effectively declaring that he does not recognize the existence of transgender people.

He didn't stop there. One of the first executive orders Trump signed after being sworn in further solidifies his administration's view on trans people.

"It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female. These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality," the executive order says.

Despite the medical community, including all major American medical associations, acknowledging the existence of trans and nonbinary people and identities, this new order directs federal agencies to ignore gender identity and only look at an individual's sex assigned at birth for paperwork related to schools, workplaces, prisons, passports, and other government-issued identification documents.

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