This week for BuzzReads, Nicole Pasulka profiles a transgender woman who sued the D.C. police. Read that and these other stories from around BuzzFeed and the web.
The Woman Who Helped Change How Police Treat Transgender People — BuzzFeed
After D.C. resident Patti Hammond Shaw was arrested, she claimed male officers searched her and locked her up with men who allegedly abused and threatened her. This is how she fought to make sure this won’t happen to others. Read it at BuzzFeed.
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Lance Armstrong in Purgatory: The Afterlife — Esquire
John H. Richardson visits with the cyclist — now legendary for reasons off the bike: "Life is good, he insists. He has five happy children. He's learned who his real friends are. And he is learning to not fight all the time. Really. A fringe benefit of crushing defeat is learning to accept things." Read it at Esquire .
Photograph by Joe Pugliese for Esquire
Cliven Bundy's War — GQ
Zach Baron travels to the Nevada desert eight days after a "successful" rebellion against the US government: "Before the republic — that's what I'd been calling it in my head: the Independent Sovereign Republic of Cliven Bundy — this was a disused gravel pit. Now it's a sandy hospitality suite for the men who'd come to fight." Read it at GQ .
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How College Wrestling Star "Tiger Mandingo" Became An HIV Scapegoat — BuzzFeed
In St. Charles, Missouri, a once popular college wrestler named Michael Johnson was incarcerated for exposing partners to HIV — to much community uproar. Steven Thrasher examines why so many are so eager to turn against him. Read it at BuzzFeed.
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