vancouversun.com – By Marianne White, CanWest News Service
As stressful events go, proms can rate pretty high on a teenager’s barometer – but imagine if you are a gay, bisexual or transgender student.
To help make them feel accepted and welcomed,…
beyondchron.org – by Harrison Chastang
African Americans throughout the Bay Area are demanding that the Russian River Resort cancel tonight’s scheduled appearance of Shirley Q. Liquor, a racist stereotypical Blackface character played by Charles…
dallasvoice.com – By Hardy Haberman – Flagging Left
Take a moment and remember the riots, Compton’s Cafe, and the trans women, drag queens, butch lesbians and leatherpeople who weren’t afraid to fight back
As we celebrate this year’s National Ga…
gothamist.com – By John Del Signore
The best things in life are free, like reruns of All in the Family, and Andrea Peyser’s rants on the NY Post website. This time she’s fauxtraged about a special needs school on Roosevelt Island that put on a produ…
sfist.com – By Jay Barmann
Knowing that Bambuddha Lounge was closing (you’ve heard, right?), drag queen and party promoter Juanita MORE! had to find another place for gays of all stripes to congregate after the Sunday Gay Pride festivities on June 2…
sfgate.com – Matthai Kuruvila, Chronicle Staff Writer
Victoria Kolakowski, who’s running for Alameda Count Superior Court judge in a November runoff election, declares on her campaign Web site that she hopes to make history.
“If I am elected, I w…
crainsnewyork.com – By Bruce W. Fraser
Until Planet Pepper, options were very limited for drag queens who needed outfits and dresses. Well, just think: dresses that are proportioned correctly for a size 14 man.
“They were taking a square peg and …
cityweekly.net – By Stephen Dark
When Juan Lopez found his brother, Javier, hanging from a rope in the backyard shed of the West Valley City house they shared, his brother, he says, “had a huge smile, as if he’d finally found happiness.”
The brot…
guardian.co.uk – Juliet Jacques
After my gender issues complicated my relationships with ‘straight-acting’ gay men, I had to reconsider my identity – and the centrality of maleness within it. Gradually, I came to define as ‘transgender’. I understoo…
guardian.co.uk – Guardian Weekly
In the city of Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, attitudes towards gender roles and sexual orientation are comparatively relaxed. But despite the thriving gay and transvestite scene, members of the cross-dressing comm…