Has Tyra earned an award from the LGBT community?
Later this month, Tyra Banks is set to receive a GLAAD Media Award for "Excellence in Media" for her work with the LGBT community on the Tyra Banks Show and America's Next Top Model. Last year, Banks famously paid for ANTM contest (and D.C.-area local) Isis [...]

Tyra Banks is prepared to grant transgender America’s Next Top Model contestant Isis King the gift that keeps on giving: An all-expenses paid sex reassignment surgery. Banks will surprise King with the gift on her show tomorrow, US Weekly reports. King, the first transgender individual to compete on Banks' model show, hails from Prince [...]

Isis King, the first transgender woman to compete to be America's Next Top Model, has been booted from the show, The Advocate reports. The 22-year-old King, "a pre-operative transgender woman," was the fifth of 14 finalists to be eliminated this season. King's exit [...]