Ms.P And Phoenix Rising Chat With Tiq Milan

Published: April 1, 2015, 1 a.m.

"Tiq Milan is the Senior Media Strategist of National News at GLAAD. Before joining GLAAD, Tiq was a mentor and teacher at the Hetrick-Martin Institute, an LGBT youth service organization. He was featured in a national media campaign for Live Out Loud's Homecoming Project, is a contributing author to the anthology Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, and is the Co-Chair for the LGBT taskforce of the National Association of Black Journalists. He has done on-air interviews for CNN,\xa0BlackEnterprise.com\xa0, Al Jazeera America, MTV, \xa0Huff Post Live and MSNBC. He has penned articles for\xa0\xa0BET.com\xa0,\xa0\xa0Rolling Stone\xa0,\xa0\xa0The New York Times,\xa0\xa0\xa0The Source,\xa0\xa0Vibe and others on issues facing the LGBT movement. He has been featured as a Black LGBT leader on Ebony.com and BET.com.\xa0Tiq is the former editor-in-chief of IKONS magazine, an LGBT pop culture magazine, and has been a freelance pop culture journalist for several years, interviewing people from \xa0like Jay-Z to Cicely Tyson. He documented his transition in the films U People and Realness."\n\nFor an extended bio please visit tiqmilan.com