I guess my question is...why do we care so much about Marc Jacobs?

What has he ever done for me?

http://gawker.com/387682/the-many-loves-of-marc-jacobs

Seriously though, it would be great if we instead highlighted gays and lesbians who did more than just have lots of sex. Granted, it's Gawker, so it's not to be taken too seriously. But there are plenty of LGBT role models that go unnoticed. And plenty of issues to discuss. One of which is our health care system, especially the health care system for trans folks. The Sylvia Rivera Law Project put out an interesting article on the topic here:

http://www.srlp.org/

"This article explores how Medicaid policies that exclude or limit coverage for transition-related health care for transgender people reproduce hierarchies of race and class."

I probably should have made this two different posts, but I wanted to show that there are real problems we could be discussing instead of just looking at Marc Jacobs.