http://urnotalone.com URNotAlone = The Number One Transgendered Resource on the Internet Event, Article 2009 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:35:42 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) Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:35:42 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/1588 http://articles.urnotalone.com/1588 TPARTY on November 28th We are currently talking to a number of potential places to host and we will update this information as soon as we have an official location. Are you ready for the next URNA TParty? Check out the TParty Photo Gallery TParty is a monthly event, held on the FOURTH SATURDAY of every month in Columbus Ohio. It's an opportunity for Transgendered people (Male to Female and Female to Male) to gather with their family and friends and get to know each other in a pleasant safe environment. The fun begins at 7 pm and lasts until the bar closes at 2 am. There is NO COVER for this event and there never will be. Just like URNA itself. If we can get this off the ground, we are hoping to get volunteers around the country to set up TParties in their own cities! URNotA dan@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6936 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6936 OpEdNews.com - By Ilene Flannery Wells - For OpEdNews I was a teenager during the '70s. During that time, we saw the rise of the glam rockers, including David Bowie. Wearing make up went to the extreme with Kiss. So when I noticed my teenage son was wearing make up, I really didn't think too much about it. One morning I noticed that he had smudges under his eyes. I asked him if he was wearing make up and when he said yes, I said, "Well, wash your face before you go to bed because it's all smudged." What was I going to do, freak out about a little make up? jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6937 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6937 TheTowerlight.com - By Sarah Ninivaggi - Staff Writer As a part of Transgender Awareness Week, a transmasculinity panel brought local insiders to Towson to answer questions and share personal stories about living in the transgender community. Three transgender males: Asa Keiswetter, Remy Roque and Owen Smith spoke on the panel. Alex Johnson, who identifies as a lesbian, participated as a transgender ally. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6938 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6938 EBAR.com - compiled by Cynthia Laird Events commemorating the 11th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance will take place in cities across the country and around the world this week, including two in the Bay Area. In the East Bay, the Tri-City Health Center's TransVision program will hold its fourth annual event in Oakland on Friday, November 20, beginning at 7 p.m. at Preservation Park's Niles Hall, 1233 Preservation Park Way... jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6939 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6939 Times-Standard.com - Donna Tam - The Times-Standard As a "very-out" transgender woman, Karin Fresnel knows what it's like to put yourself in the public spotlight for a cause. "It is terrifically important that we increase our visibility so that people begin to understand that we're just like everyone else and truly we are. We have the same wants and desires that everyone does," she said. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6940 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6940 DailyEmerald.com - By Grace Pettygrove - Columnist Let's start with a definition: Transgender is a broad term that is applied to anyone whose gender identity or expression differs from his or her sexual anatomy at birth. This is more of an inclusive term than the word "transsexual," which generally implies a surgical or hormonal shift in gender. For example, a female-to-male transgender man might identify as such but chose not to undergo a mastectomy. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6941 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6941 www2.TBO.com - By Christian M. Wade - The Tampa Tribune Tampa - Brushing aside a chorus of opposition from evangelical groups, the city council today voted to expand anti-discrimination laws to include transgender individuals. The measure, which amends laws prohibiting discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations based on sexual orientation, sex, race and religion to include "gender identity or expression" as a protected class, was approved 5 to 1. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6942 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6942 LAist.com - By Zach Behrens Something extraordinary is happening in the basement of the Walt Disney Concert Hall. It's hilarious, it's mindblowing... wait scratch that... it's a delirious and appetizing mind fuck. World-renown puppeteer and director Basil Twist has teamed up with the crossdressing diva and amazing singer Joey Arias (you may know Arias as the emcee "Mistress of Seduction" in the Las Vegas Cirque Du Soleil production Zumanity) for a musical adventure chock full of space aliens, burlesque and plenty of sexual innuendo (okay, the innuendo was defenestrated--this no nudity, yet NSFW play is DTF). jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6943 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6943 SheWired.com - by Emily Dean Chaz Bono sat down Thursday with Good Morning America's Chris Cuomo for his first live interview as a transgender man, reports the Advocate. Bono is 8 months into his gender reassignment process. He is still undergoing hormone therapy to help change his body from that of a female to a male. The hormones have deepened his voice, as was apparent in the interview. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6944 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6944 Xtra.ca - Brent Creelman A day before the Trans Day of Remembrance, Ontario NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo re-introduced her private member's bill to amend the province's human rights code to recognize gender identity. "I'm sorry in a sense that I have to, [and] that this is not law already," said DiNovo at a press conference on Nov 19. "This time we hope the government acts." jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6945 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6945 SheWired.com - by Lesley Goldberg The production company behind hits Shoot 'Em Up and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has optioned the rights to Cycler, Lauren McLaughlin's young-adult book series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Cycler, which tells the story of Jill, a 17-year-old suburban girl whose motto, "I am all girl," is turned on its head when for four days every month turns into Jack, a teen with male anatomy and typical fantasies of girls... jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6946 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6946 QLP.e-p.net.au - Written by Peter Hackney A radio DJ at Brisbane's Nova 106.9 FM has launched a scathing attack on local trans activist Robyn Whittaker and members of the LGBT community 'lacking in humour’' The attack by breakfast radio host Meshel Laurie (pictured) comes after Whittaker complained about three 'transphobic' segments on the station. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6947 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6947 News.MedIll.Northwestern.edu - By Jessica Krinke Transgender individuals still face many hurdles, even within the LGBT world. And the photo identification policy at northwest suburban Hunters Nightclub has come to represent some of them. Hunters is a popular gay bar in an unincorporated area near Elk Grove Village that has come under criticism recently for tightened ID policies that some in the transgender community say is discriminatory. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6927 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6927 UNAIDS.org Equal rights and a call to Brazilian society on the issue of the discrimination experienced daily by men, women and children in the country are the messages of a powerful "Just like you" video campaign, launched 16 November in Rio de Janeiro, by UNAIDS in partnership with other United Nations agencies with the participation of civil society and the government authorities on human rights. Ten thirty second films were shown during the launch, films that present a panorama of the reality faced by each population covered by the campaign - school students, gay men, lesbians, people living with HIV, the Afro-Brazilians, sex workers, refugees, transsexuals and transvestites and drug users... jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6928 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6928 TheJackOnline.org - By Sarah Hardy After gender reassignment surgery in 2005, Karin Fresnel was told that people did not want to work with her because she was transgendered. She received a demotion at her job and was told that her office would be closed. She eventually lost her job as a geologist for a private consulting firm, and chose not to sue her employer because she felt it would damage her reputation in the geology community, Fresnel told the Bay Area Reporter. Fresnel is a Eureka resident and board member of Queer Humboldt, a resource group for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community in Humboldt County. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6929 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6929 Gazette.net - by C. Benjamin Ford - Staff Writer A County Councilwoman's senior policy adviser who helped draft the county's antidiscrimination law to protect transgendered people now is using the law in filing a complaint against the Montgomery County Ethics Commission. "I helped craft the bill, and I'm the first to use it," said Dana Beyer, a transgendered woman who serves as senior aide to Councilwoman Duchy Trachtenberg (D-At large). "That's a delicious irony." jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6930 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6930 LaughlinEntertainer.com For about a decade and a half, between the end of her stand-up days and the beginning of her role as "Red Carpet Cruella", Joan Rivers owed her public image to Frank Marino. It was Marino who put his impersonation of Rivers in front of audiences on a nightly basis during his long running Las Vegas show "An Evening at La Cage" at the Riviera. As long as Marino was "doing" Joan, she was still viable. It's kind of like what Frank Caliendo is doing for John Madden today. Keeping the image alive. And "image", as a famous Vegas personality and former meth-head once said, "is everything." jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6931 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6931 Community.adn.com - Posted by adn_jomalley Early in the morning the day after my column about Nora Jean York ran, an email appeared in my inbox: This is not a crank email. This is totally for real. If you call me I can prove this. I'll meet you where ever you wish but I would like to meet at Missy II's resting place. I can show you where the first Missy's resting place is as well... jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6932 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6932 Examiner.com - Joe Openshaw - Birmingham Gay Community Examiner Members of the transgender community often feel they are being slighted by the gay community. A recent example here in Alabama involved the state hate crimes bill, and whether support should be given to a version that was non-inclusive, that is, did not include gender identity. And that debate was between members of the LGBT community. Imagine the confusion or lack of understanding that might exist outside the community. A comment on an article a few months ago asked this:... jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6933 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6933 KStateCollegian.com - By Elena Buckner Alley Stoughton, associate professor in computer and information sciences, is a male-to-female transgender person. She said life at K-State is both difficult and rewarding, and she faces the same challenges other minority's face. "If you were interviewing a random person at K-State about any other topic, you wouldn't ask them intimate details about their bodies - it's just more personal than you would expect," said Alley Stoughton, associate professor in computer and information sciences. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6934 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6934 TucsonWeekly.com - by Irene Messina Imagine this scenario: You wake up tomorrow morning and realize your body has changed overnight. If you were male, you are now female. If you were female, you are now male. What would you do? "While you might be a little fascinated and a little curious, it would wear off pretty quickly," says Alison Davison. "You'd probably do whatever it took to get back to being yourself." jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6935 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6935 DailyTimes.com.pk Karachi: Sindh being the most income-generating province, not only attracts the common people, but also encourages a large number of transvestites to rush in from different parts of the country. "The population of Punjab is higher, so the transvestites' population must also be higher there, but I really felt sorry when I heard that there are only 1,000 transvestites in Punjab, as majority of them have shifted to Karachi. It is my wish that not a single transvestite is left without registration," said Bindia Rana, President of the Gender Interactive Alliance (GIA), a non-government organisation for the betterment of transvestites in Sindh. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6917 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6917 Tips-Q.com - Submitted by GayNewsService.com Philadelphia - When Barbara Mclean walked into the doctor's office, she expected care. Instead, the 52-year-old transsexual experienced nothing but hostility during her physical examination. "The doctor thought I was one thing, but I was another," says Mclean. "At first when I got there, they asked the normal questions you would expect at a doctor's visit, but when I lifted up my robe, their whole attitude changed." jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6918 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6918 DigitalSpy.com - By Mark Langshaw, Gaming / Comics Reporter A comic book featuring the world's first gay superhero team has debuted at retail level. Spandex follows the exploits of transvestite crimefighter Liberty and Wonder Woman's lesbian equivalent Diva, as they team up with fellow gay heroes Prowler, Glitter, Indigo and the twins Mr Muscles & Butch. Each issue sees them do battle with villains such as Muscle Mary, Pussy and the Pink Ninjas. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6919 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6919 NevadaSagebrush.com - By: Madison Jackson The drag queens showed off in Reno, strutting across the stage in their platform boots and sequined dresses. They performed to a packed house, to music and the laughter of the crowd. The Queer Student Union kicked off its third annual drag show Friday in the Joe Crowley Student Union Theater. The drag queens entertained with fabulous professional and amateur performances. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6920 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6920 Collegian.PSU.edu - By Caitlin Sellers - Collegian Staff Writer The discussion opened with the details: Where does your penis go when you're in drag? A group of students both experienced in and curious about drag performance sat in a circle Friday night for a "Tape it Up, Tuck it Down" question-and-answer session about being a drag queen. And each student experienced in drag answered the initial question differently: tucked with duct tape on the skin, duct tape on fabric, a gaff -- a Speedo-like garment -- or not tucked at all. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6921 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6921 LansingStateJournal.com - Frank Vaca Drag appetite! On Sunday, Nov. 22 at noon, The Lansing Community College Gay Straight Alliance and Chrome Cat present a Drag Brunch. It is an affordable brunch at $7 with a drag performance at the Chrome Cat, 226 E. Grand River Ave. The host will be an upcoming and fresh Drag Queen named Ace who will be presenting a great drag show. A My Spacer is quoted on saying "Last night was my first time to The Chrome Cat....I loved it, had an amazing time and thank you so much for your hospitality... you ladies rock the house." jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6922 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6922 HurriyetDailyNews.com - Vercihan Ziflioglu Istanbul - A group of Turkish transsexuals has created a theatrical play to share the difficulties members of the community face, telling audiences, "Either love us or not, but know us first." The biggest problem faced by Turkish transsexuals, Group Opal artists say, is that they are not given a chance to express themselves. They must pay the price of their sexuality in their daily lives and have difficulties finding the jobs they need to survive. Their families generally reject them, and many find themselves caught up in prostitution due to financial problems and social pressure. Only some succeed in coping with these difficulties. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:02 MST