http://urnotalone.com URNotAlone = The Number One Transgendered Resource on the Internet Event, Article 2010 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:09:29 MST admin@urnotalone.com (URNotAlone Admin) admin@urnotalone.com (URNotAlone Admin) http://urnotalone.com/people/index.php?Sorting=3 http://urnotalone.com/people/index.php?Sorting=3 See the most recent profile updates here. admin@urnotalone.com (URNotAlone Admin) Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:09:29 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7236 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7236 ThisIsDerbyshire.co.uk A caretaker who married a transsexual has been transferred from the school he was working at following complaints from parents. Ian Young worked at St Chad's Infants school for more than two years, but has been switched to a junior school after parents said they were "very uncomfortable" about his relationship with Malaysian bride Fatine. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7233 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7233 Guardian.co.uk - Paul Harris, New York - The Observer Paul McKerrow was an all-American boy. Raised in Helena, Montana, he was the quarterback for his high-school football team, which is as close to being idolised as many small-town Americans come. He was also his class president, the valedictorian of his year in 1985 and voted most likely to succeed by his classmates. He was tall and ruggedly good-looking. McKerrow, in short, had it made and great things were expected of him. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7234 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7234 MercuryNews.com - By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press Writer Rawalpindi, Pakistan - Taunted at home, Sanhya ran away at age 12, searching for acceptance as she sees herself - neither male nor female, but a member of a third gender. Pakistan's transgender community has long lived on society's margins, harassed by police, ridiculed as freaks, pitied as the outcast people of Allah and often rejected by their own families. Now the Supreme Court is giving them hope through a petition for their rights to be respected. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7235 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7235 DigitalSpy.com - By Catriona Wightman, Entertainment Reporter Elly Jackson has revealed that she faced "constant abuse" at school. The La Roux singer told Fabulous that she was bullied because of her appearance. "I felt very out of sorts at school," she said. "I was a tomboy and didn't dress like a girl. I wore tracksuits and wanted to hang out with the boys. I got picked on because I was different." jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7229 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7229 SLTrib.com - By Rosemary Winters - The Salt Lake Tribune Anti-discrimination ordinances adopted by Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County are safe -- at least for 2010. But lawmakers won't be diving into a yearlong study of whether to expand such protections in housing and employment statewide to gay and transgender Utahns in 2011. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7230 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7230 PNJ.com - Rebekah Allen The University of West Florida has made it loud and clear: equality for transgender students and staff. President Judy Bense attended a Student Government Association meeting Friday afternoon to deliver the announcement to students, after denying the request last week. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7231 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7231 Advocate.com - By Kerry Eleveld This week Adm. Mike Mullen shouldered a burden and created an opening for the fair treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans that, quite frankly, no other leader in the country could possibly have delivered in three short sentences. Staring down Sen. John McCain, who moments earlier had reiterated his unwavering belief that the "don't ask, don't tell" policy is working, Mullen unflinchingly stated the opposite, saying he believed ending the policy was "the right thing to do." jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7232 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7232 CampKC.com - by Bebe Zahara Benet The reigning drag queen from last season's "RuPaul's Drag Race" follows the new season each week with a conversation with the latest eliminated contestant. Have you missed me? I've missed you! It's been nearly a year since I won the first season of "RuPaul's Drag Race" on Logo, and I've been one busy drag queen... jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7224 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7224 Content.USAToday.com - LAGirl1382 I have friends who are big fans of RuPaul's Drag Race, so the second-season premiere is on my DVR right now. In the meantime, I thought I'd get in the mood by testing RuPaul's "Dragulator" application that turns any old photo into that of a fabulous drag queen. (Note: This site contains some fierce audio.) jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7225 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7225 Alligator.org - Thomas Plevik, Alligator Contributing Writer Ten months ago, Bree H. let his hair down and began his transition from man to woman. "It was a small step," said Bree, 54, of Gainesville. "All I did was pull my hair out of my ponytail. But looking back, it was a big step for me. I was a wreck before." Now she smiles and drinks wine in the cafe behind Wild Iris Books as she swaps stories with other members of the Gainesville Transgender Support Group. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7226 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7226 JWeekly.com Drag performer Lil Miss Hot Mess will present "Lil Miss Hot Mess's Bat Mitzvah x2" at 10 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, at the Blue Macaw, 2565 Mission St. in San Francisco. With the help of drag queens Anna Conda, Glamamore and others, Lil Miss Hot Mess will celebrate her newfound "womanhood" with a campy take on the traditional bat mitzvah. The event will include song and dance performances, the hora and a Manischewitz toast. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7227 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7227 TheDailyStar.net - Staff Correspondent The premiere of "Call Me Salma", a documentary on a transgender teenager, was held on February 4 at the auditorium of University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB). ULAB and Bandhu Social Welfare Society organised the premiere. Directed by Canadian filmmakers Sebastien Rist and Aude Leroux-Levesque, the film is a story about "love and loss." jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7228 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7228 ChicagoTribune.com - By Nina Metz, Special to the Tribune In the words of reality show host RuPaul: "You're born naked, and the rest is drag." Tell that to Anna Wintour. Entertaining, though in need of serious tweaking, the current crop of drag shows at the very least embody the right sort of camp-spectacle attitude of outrageous haughtiness that never takes itself too seriously. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7215 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7215 Independent.ie - By Declan Cashin It's not easy to summarise American filmmaker Kimberly Reed's remarkable new documentary, Prodigal Sons, but she has her own way of introducing it to audiences. "You know how it is when you grow up, leave home, and change a lot? Then you return home to find that your parents and family don't get you any more? That's what Prodigal Sons, essentially, is all about." kathyctv@hotmail.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7220 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7220 NYTimes.com - By Penelope Green Near dusk on a recent winter Sunday, in a glossy and compact one-bedroom in Hell's Kitchen, Michael Lisbona was drying the toe box of a Louis-style mule with a blow dryer. The upper part of the half-made shoe, which had been cut from black kid leather embossed with a delicate silver lace pattern, curled back like the petal of an exotic flower. Llorraine Neithardt, a full-time psychic and part-time shoe guru, clapped her hands and exclaimed: "Boy, does that beat mowing the lawn. Look how beautiful - like a little tortellini." franman61@yahoo.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7221 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7221 NewHavenAdvocate.com - By Donald Brown He stands alone on stage in an outfit that looks like the sad remains of a clown's party favors, a colorful motley that combines deflated balloons, a fright wig, glitter facepaint, long legs in mismatched neon hose, towering heels, a bare chest with saucy sequined nipples. Sometimes, he strums a ukulele and sings in a voice that's often quite sweet and pleasant, then veers into screeches, rock star rasps, stentorian posturing. His spoken voice is labile, sounding at times like a genteel Southern belle, at others like her dissolute granddad, the Colonel, and, at its most beguiling, like someone - perhaps male, perhaps female - charming the pants off you. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7222 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7222 SeeMagazine.com - by Gwyneth Dunsford Rae Spoon W/Geoff Berner and Brigitte Dajzcer - The Artery, Feb. 6 In the true tradition of country music, Rae Spoon is a drifter of sorts. However, unlike his predecessors, Spoon's identity as a transgendered man make his outlaw lifestyle notably riskier. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7223 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7223 EdgeBoston.com - by Chris Seabury - EDGE Contributor A transgender Houstonian's murder last month is the latest in a series of unsolved homicides against the city's gender-variant residents. Houston police officers found Myra Chanel Ical's badly bruised body in a vacant lot on Garrott Street near the Southwest Freeway in the Montrose neighborhood on Jan. 18. Police indicated the bruises were an obvious sign Ical, 51, had been beaten, but she tried to fight back against her assailant(s.) jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7210 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7210 Campaign.ConstantContact.com - NCTE In a closely-watched case, the United States Tax Court overwhelmingly ruled on Tuesday in O'Donnabhain v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue that a transgender woman's medical expenses for hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery were medically necessary and therefore tax-deductible under Federal law. After considering extensive medical evidence and testimony from leading medical experts, the court rejected an interpretation of the law that would consider transgender people's medical treatment different than all other medically necessary treatment recommended by major medical and psychological organizations. tiffanyatgirl@yahoo.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7211 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7211 blogs.PhoenixNewTimes.com - By Ray Stern in Diverse City In the late 1960s, Millie C. Bloodworth was a city boy from Detroit who didn't like guns, the Army, snakes on field trips, or the looming prospect of getting shipped off to Vietnam. What he really wanted was a sex-change operation and a wardrobe of pretty dresses. Bloodworth, who describes her offbeat, coming-of-age tale in her 2008 book, The Exceptional, Impossible Woman Indeed! will chat about her life and society's evolving view of transsexuals during a free, city-sponsored event on Friday, February 19. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7212 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7212 Google.com/HostedNews/AFP - By Emmanuel Duparcq (AFP) Rawalpindi, Pakistan - Mohammed Zafar Iqbal used to cash in on his beautiful face and graceful moves, dancing bedecked in midnight blue veils and dresses for clients who sought his perceived closeness to God. But like most of Pakistan's eunuch and transsexual community -- mocked, pitied and shunned by society -- his life has mostly been marred by hardship and suffering, peaking seven years ago when he was brutally attacked. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7213 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7213 ExpressNightOut.com - Posted By Fiona Zublin Friday: Every month, Town Danceboutique, everyone's favorite U Street uber-gay danceclub, is holding a drag queen competition. Here's how it works: you bring your fabulous self (in make-up, of course) and a CD you want to perform to. Town provides the sorta-celebrity judge - this time it's contestant from "Launch My Line" - and a series of tests of strength, agility and general awesomeness. It's free to enter and there's a $250 grand prize. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7214 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7214 BayWindows.com - by Hannah Clay Wareham - Staff Reporter Varla Jean Merman, the fictional creation of actor Jeffrey Roberson and the purported love child of Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman, will be descending upon Boston in all her glory for a special Valentine's Day performance at Machine. On the heels of an "Ugly Betty" guest spot, this performance is the next step in Merman's national takeover of all things theatrical -- she's performed at Carnegie Hall, judged a "Project Runway" episode, starred as Mary Sunshine in the Broadway revival of "Chicago," produced and starred in an animated short for LOGO, and is the only drag queen we can think of who doesn't lip-synch. Ever. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7216 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7216 WindyCityMediaGroup.com - by Tony Peregrin Robert Cyon Flare is famous for setting the hearts of Boystown bar patrons aflame ( pun intended ) with an infectious, positive energy and vibrant, Technicolor costumes. In fact, the appeal of Flare ( whose entertainment persona shuns the first name ) actually shines far beyond Lakeview, fueled mainly by two Billboard-charting dance hits: In 2008, "Everybody, Everybody," hit number 31 and, just a year later, "Rise" rose to number 36 on the charts. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7217 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7217 NYTimes.com - By The Associated Press Boston (AP) -- A woman who battled the IRS over a tax deduction for the costs of her sex-change operation says she feels like she won a victory for all transgender people. Rhiannon O'Donnabhain (oh-DON'-oh-vin), who was born a man, sued the Internal Revenue Service in 2007 after the agency rejected a $5,000 deduction for about $25,000 in medical expenses associated with the sex-change surgery, finding it was a cosmetic procedure and not medically necessary. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7218 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7218 DailyNewsTranscript.com - By Nancy Reardon - GateHouse News Service It took almost four decades, but Cohasset resident Michelle Figueiredo is finally comfortable in her own skin and ready to start a new life. Figueiredo, 38, said she wasn't at peace with herself until about five years ago. But her story is much deeper than that. It's about a woman who was struggling with self-image. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7219 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7219 KATU.com - By Margy Lynch KATU News and KATU.com Staff Portland, Ore. - The city of Portland wants to expand its medical coverage for employees who want to get a sex change, a move that will cost $108,000 a year. According to Mayor Sam Adam's spokesman, Roy Kaufmann, the city would pay 95 percent of the cost for the procedure and leave the remaining five percent for employees to pay out of pocket. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/7207 http://articles.urnotalone.com/7207 LATimes.com - By Nicole Santa Cruz Aiden Aizumi almost didn't graduate from high school. Aizumi, now 21, is one of many gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender young people who say they have suffered through school, enduring homophobic taunts and name-calling. He completed his final semester of high school from home. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:02 MST