OutInAmerica.com – by: GLADD, OIA Newswire
Los Angeles, CA – The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) announced today the launch of the “Be an Ally & a Friend” public education campaign. This year’s campaign has 22 public service announ…
EBAR.com – by Rachel Pepper
Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities by Del LaGrace Volcano and Ulrika Dahl; Serpent’s Tail, $40
Photographer Del LaGrace Volcano’s work burst onto the international queer scene in 1991 with the publication of…
TheSomervilleNews.com – By Ben Johnson
Somerville State Representative Carl M. Sciortino has been instrumental in pushing forward a legislative bill that promises to protect transgender citizens from discrimination and hate crimes in Massachusetts. …
CBC.ca – CBC News
The Alberta government will cover sex-change operations for those who have already been identified as needing the surgery, but the procedure will be delisted for new patients, Health Minister Ron Liepert confirmed Tuesday.
The d…
MiamiHerald.com – By Rebecca Dellagloria
South Beach has long been home to one of the country’s largest gay communities.
But this year will be the first that the city plays host to its own Miami Beach Gay Pride Parade and Festival — a day when g…
EdgeBoston.com – by Laura Kiritsy – Bay Windows
Seated in an anteroom in the State House office suite of state Rep. Brian Wallace, Joanne Herman told legislative aide Carol Houghtaling, that she was nothing more than “a boring accountant.”
“You k…
NorthJersey.com – By John Kender Jr. – Hawthorne High School
Editor’s note: We asked students to write about gender stereotyping in high school. Today, a male point of view; next Tuesday, a female view.
“Fair is foul and foul is fair.” This…
MetNews.com – By Steven M. Ellis, Staff Writer
A state law that allows transgender individuals to change the gender on their California birth certificates but requires them to file to do so where they reside unconstitutionally penalizes those who m…
RadioNetherlands.nl – UTC
A transsexual woman from the Utrecht district of Zuilen has moved house as a result of bullying by a group of about 30 young Moroccans.
Earlier, two lesbian couples left Zuilen because they no longer felt safe there. Ut…
Xtra.ca – Aubrey Laufer
RuPaul is the latest powerhouse pop icon to take on the genre of our generation: reality TV. Here’s how Ru described her TV show RuPaul’s Drag Race: “Tell Tyra that the queen has returned, and while you’re at it have Heidi cl…