http://urnotalone.com URNotAlone = The Number One Transgendered Resource on the Internet Event, Article 2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:54:31 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, 06 Nov 2009 14:54:31 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6835 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6835 MiamiHerald.com Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival: The 24th annual event moves into its final week of new features, documentaries and shorts from around the globe plus parties, seminars and films for kids. Filmmakers are featured at many of the events; through Nov. 11; Cinema Paradiso, 503 SE Sixth St., Fort Lauderdale (unless otherwise noted); $10, $8 seniors and students, $6 FLIFF members (unless otherwise noted) A $25 donation is suggested at some of the screenings and is tax deductible. See website for details and to confirm schedule. 954-525-3456 or www.fliff.com: FRIDAY - Amancio -- Two Faces on a Tombstone: With director Tom Murray and producer Bruce Presley; 5 p.m... jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6836 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6836 DailyIllini.com - Phil Reese On Tuesday, voters in Maine approved a bill establishing second class citizenship for millions of American citizens by a slim margin. Despite the tireless work of organizers, fundraisers and the amazing turn-out by the supporters of equality, in the end, discrimination won over fairness. We see across the country voters choosing to create two types of citizenship: the folks we're comfortable with get first tier, and those we aren't comfortable with get second tier. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6837 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6837 ThisIsNorthDevon.co.uk A man who was born a girl has spoken of the abuse and harassment he is suffering in Barnstaple after a sex change. John (not his real name) says he has suffered years of abuse because he is a transexual. He is desperate to leave his housing association flat in Barnstaple, where he has been a target for narrow minded teenagers. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6838 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6838 KStateCollegian.com - By Hannah Loftus The Marriage and Family Therapy program at K-State is starting a new specialized treatment team, called the Transgender Therapy Team. The program will train students in the MFT master's and doctoral programs to provide therapy services to transgender individuals and individuals who are questioning their gender. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6839 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6839 OregonLive.com - By Charles Pope, The Oregonian Washington -- The Obama Administration Thursday endorsed full-scale protections for gay and transgender workers from job discrimination, giving a major boost to legislation written by Sen. Jeff Merkley that is based on similar protections offered in Oregon. "No American should be denied a job or the opportunity to earn promotions, pay raises and other benefits of employment because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identify, which have no bearing on work performance," Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for civil rights told a Senate panel. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6840 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6840 DenverPost.com - Monte Whaley, The Denver Post East Colfax Avenue soon will have a new fixturea gathering spot for the region's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center of Colorado said Thursday that it will soon move to the former Video One building at 1301 E. Colfax Ave., and transform it into an epicenter for the GLBT community. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6841 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6841 WalesOnline.co.uk - by Gavin Allen, South Wales Echo Eddie Izzard is giving Hollywood stardom a rest while he returns to touring his stand-up. He talks to Gavin Allen about strategic transvestitism and the potential of arena comedy. Eddie Izzard has been in 'boy mode' so long that America can hardly believe he's a transvestite. While cultivating his film and TV career in Los Angeles he made the decision to tone down his wardrobe, and the strategy has served him well. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6842 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6842 SoVo.com - By: Dyana Bagby It was a small but energetic crowd that showed up for Atlanta Pride's first Trans March on Oct. 31. Transgender men and women, a few children and allies marched through Piedmont Park to give visibility to gender identity issues. "I've been with Pride for 10 years and this is my first Pride as an out trans man," J. Sheffield said before the march began, drawing applause from participants. Sheffield is also the events manager for Atlanta Pride. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6843 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6843 HeraldScotland.com - Alison Campsie The playwright whose depiction of Jesus as a transsexual woman sparked a Christian protest has spoken out against her critics, claiming their prejudice has no foundation in the Bible and revealing she is a regular churchgoer herself. Jo Clifford, 59, said she had been upset by the demonstration outside the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, where about 300 objectors congregated on the opening night of Jesus, Queen of Heaven. Ms Clifford, who is both a transsexual and a church­goer, said she wrote the play to examine the roots of prejudice faced by both gay people and those who have crossed genders. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6844 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6844 Examiner.com - Sarah Marloff - SF Transgendered Relationships Examiner T-LISH - Transgendered Ladies Initiating Sisterhood - is a youth program of Trans: Thrive (a non-profit drop in center for and operated by the trans community). T-LISH is an empowerment group for trans women of color between the ages of 14 and 24, but most of their events are open to all trans and genderqueer youth. Walking into the T-LISH meeting room is similar to walking into your best friend's apartment. Seeing the bright pinks, purples and reds of the walls and over-stuffed furniture automatically made me smile... jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6845 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6845 MiamiHerald.TypePad.com - Steve Rothaus The 11th annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance will be Saturday, Nov. 21. A weekend of activities are planned in Fort Lauderdale, including a screening of the locally-produced film Amancio: Two Faces on a Tombstone and a brunch featuring speaker Marilyn Volker, a nationally known sexologist from Miami. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6826 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6826 Politico.com - By Jonathan Allen The federal government would be banned from funding sex change operations and other services for transgender individuals if social conservative activists get their way. There's no sponsor yet for an amendment to the health care overhaul - and it may remain in the dustbin of unrealized wedge issues - but culture warriors are shopping the proposal to Republican senators. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6827 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6827 Media.www.DailyCampus.com - Travis Moore The Rainbow Center's "Out to Lunch" lecture series continued yesterday afternoon with a lecture from speaker Pauline Park. In her lecture "Transgender Health: Reconceptualizing Pathology as Wellness," Park shed light on the harmful treatment of transgendered people in the field of health care and the obstacles facing transgendered individuals seeking medical treatment. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6828 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6828 WinnipegFreePress.com - By: Mike McIntyre A deadly fire at a Winnipeg bathhouse was alleged started by a customer who was angry to learn he'd had a sexual tryst with a man he thought was actually a woman, the Free Press has learned. Two people died in the Oct. 11 blaze at the Aquarius Men's Bath while nearly 40 other patrons were able to escape. Justin Rosdobutko, 25, has been charged with two counts of manslaughter. He remains before the courts and is presumed innocent. His lawyer said this week he plans to vigorously fight the charges. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6829 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6829 ePGN.com - by Jen Colletta National LGBT agency Lambda Legal filed a complaint last week with the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations, charging that staff at a local youth facility harassed and discriminated against a teenage transgender girl in its care. The complaint, filed Oct. 27, alleges that the Department of Human Services and its Youth Study Center violated the city's Fair Practices Ordinance, which bans discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6830 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6830 IowaPolitics.com - Contact: Kate Cyrul - Bergen Kenny Statement of Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) Welcome everyone. Today our Committee will hear testimony on an important piece of civil rights legislation - the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, also known as ENDA. The issue here could not be more simple. We are talking about a fundamental American value - equal treatment for all - a principle that citizens who work hard, pay their taxes and contribute to their communities deserve fair treatment and should not be discriminated against. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6831 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6831 SDGLN.com - Bob Witeck "When you say...you [gay Americans] are not a group of people who need special protection. You do well economically. You are an elite. That is precisely the argument that has been made in behalf of the worst kind of discrimination against Jewish people." -United States Senator Paul Wellstone, July 29, 1994, responding to an extreme right spokesperson's anti-gay testimony jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6832 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6832 TheDailyBeast.com - by Barbie Latza Nadeau As Italy's leader tries to use a politician's affair with a transsexual prostitute to deflect his own scandals, Barbie Latza Nadeau says his misogyny is finally catching up with him. As if the visual image of Italy's 73-year-old Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi bedding a call girl in "Putin's bed" isn't enough, Italians now have to contend with another politician's porn-star lifestyle. And this latest scandal makes Berlusconi's numerous affairs seem relatively quaint. Late last month, Piero Marrazzo, the governor of Lazio region, was caught on video in a cocaine-fueled tryst with a transsexual prostitute, a former Brazilian "Miss Transex International" known as Natalie. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6833 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6833 TampaBay.com - By Janet Zink, Times Staff Writer Tampa - The City Council on Thursday gave unanimous preliminary approval to expanding its human rights ordinance to protect transgender people from discrimination. But does that mean cross-dressers are protected, too? Specifically, the ordinance prohibits discrimination on the basis of "gender identity and expression." jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6834 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6834 DallasVoice.com - By Tammye Nash - Senior Editor Fort Worth - The City Manager's Diversity Task Force on Tuesday, Nov. 2, presented a list of 20 recommendations to the City Council, all of which had some measure of support from City Manager Dale Fisseler. Eighteen of the recommendations had garnered Fisseler's "unconditional concurrence," while the remaining two, both of which involve legal and budgetary considerations, earned Fisseler's support pending further study. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6819 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6819 Anorak.co.uk - TB RIP John Kenley. Anorak's Man In LA remembers the cross-dressing, hermaphroditic theatre star being ignored by the big media: Add the Los Angeles Times to the mainstream media outlets that leave the most colorful part of a great person's life out of the story. The LA Times is a couple of days behind the New York Times in reporting the death at 103 of John Kenley, the Ohio summer stock theatre impresario known for casting television and movie stars including Burt Reynolds, Mae West, William Shatner and Joe Namath in popular plays and musicals. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6820 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6820 www2.TBO.com - By Christian M. Wade - The Tampa Tribune Tampa - The city council is expected to vote Thursday on a proposal to expand Tampa's anti-discrimination laws to include transgender individuals. The proposed ordinance, if approved, would extend 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. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6821 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6821 TheVitalVoice.com - By Murphy New York - The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) today called on the nation's media to focus on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and couples in covering the results and aftermath of yesterday's votes in Maine, Washington state and Kalamazoo, Mich. In Maine, voters eliminated the state's marriage equality law, which was passed by the state legislature and signed by Gov. John Baldacci earlier this year. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6822 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6822 IPSNews.net - By Humberto Márquez Caracas (IPS) - One Friday at around midnight, on Villaflor Street, a favourite spot for gays and lesbians in the Venezuelan capital, Yonatan Matheus and Omar Marques noticed two Caracas police patrol vans carrying about 20 detainees, most of them very young. When Marques and Matheus, who are gay leaders of the Venezuela Diversa (Diverse Venezuela) organisation, approached to find out what was happening and take pictures, they were picked up too. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6823 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6823 SDGLN.com - Connor Maddocks The 8th Annual San Diego Transgender Day of Remembrance will be held on Friday November 20, 2009, at 6 pm at The Center (3909 Centre Street). There will be a silent march from The Center down University Avenue, with a program to follow in the Center's auditorium beginning at 7 P.M. Everyone is welcome and invited to attend. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6824 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6824 AJC.com - By Christian Boone - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution On Halloween 2006, Vandy Beth Glenn, unlike some of her costumed colleagues, came to work dressed in typical business attire. For that, the former editor with the Georgia General Assembly was fired, as her then-boss recently acknowledged in court documents. Glenn had decided weeks before that she could no longer navigate separate personas, working as Glenn Morrison (her birth name) and living as Vandy Beth. Glenn informed her immediate supervisor, senior editor Beth Yinger, that she had been diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder, a psychiatric classification for persons in conflict with their biological sex. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6825 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6825 SXNews.e-p.net.au Big biceps, hairy chests and muscled torsos are not what you expect to see from ballerinas. But then The Trocks - or, more correctly, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo - are not your typical ballet troupe. Born 35 years ago in Manhattan, The Trocks is an all-male company that combines the physical capabilities of male dancers with the grace of ballerinas. Or, more succinctly, they're male ballet dancers frocking up as women. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:02 MST http://articles.urnotalone.com/6809 http://articles.urnotalone.com/6809 ThisIsExeter.co.uk The trauma of life as a transsexual has led to a city woman being spared a jail term. Thea Cox was in breach of a 12-week suspended sentence when she was caught breaking into student accommodation to steal clothing and food. She confessed to burglaries at Elmbrook House, in New North Road, on August 31 and September 14, and an address in Polsloe Road on September 19 and October 3. But a judge at Exeter Crown Court took the unusual step of not activating the jail term because of the extreme circumstances surrounding her case. jon@urnotalone.com(Member Name) Article Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:02 MST