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Laverne Cox (born May 29, 1972) is an American actress and LGBTQ advocate. She rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, becoming the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990. In 2015, she won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special as executive producer for Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word, making her the first trans woman to win the award. In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regularly on U.S. broadcast TV, as Cameron Wirth on CBS's Doubt. Cox appeared as a contestant on the first season of VH1's reality show I Want to Work for Diddy and co-produced and co-hosted the VH1 makeover television series TRANSform Me. In April 2014, Cox was honoured by GLAAD with its Stephen F. Kolzak Award for advocating for the transgender community. In June 2014, Cox became the first transgender person to appear on the cover of Time magazine. Cox is the first transgender person to appear on the cover of a Cosmopolitan magazine, with her February 2018 cover on the South African edition. She is also the first openly transgender person to have a wax figure of herself at Madame Tussauds. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laverne Cox, licensed under CC-BY-SA, is a full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Country Boys is the story of an up-and-coming singer named Richie Bashton, who's trying to make it big in the country scene. To do this, Richie's manager Bruce Wolnik signs him up to famous music company 'Rocky Mountain Records'. The one problem? Richie's gay, and wants to make music about his experience as a gay man living in the south, and generally provide allyship to the LGBT+ community overall. And the owner of Rocky Mountain Records, Pappy Stevenson, is only really interested in making shallow bro country, so now Richie has to find a way out of the contract Bruce signed him up for. What makes it worse is that his ex, who after some soul searching found out she's really a woman on the inside, is also signed to that record and while the breakup was mutual and amiable, there's still some awkwardness there. AND on top of that his adoptive daughter is dating Pappy's daughter.
