edgeboston.com – by Michael K. Lavers – National News Editor
Even though New York lawmakers continue to grapple over the state’s fiscal crisis, LGBT activists remain optimistic they finally have enough votes to secure passage of a bill that would ba…
jweekly.com – by Dan Pine, Staff Writer
As the new assistant rabbi and music director at Berkeley’s Congregation Beth El, Reuben Zellman counts among his official duties tutoring b’nai mitzvah students and directing the choir.
Unofficially, his j…
seattlepi.com – By Casey McNerthney – seattlepi.com Staff
A man who was previously convicted of a hate crime was arrested after he yelled a derogatory slur at a transgender person and assaulted her, police said.
The incident happened about 3:50 p…
americanhealthandbeauty.com
For transgender patients, cosmetic surgery can help them achieve an outer appearance that matches who they are inside.
Gender reassignment surgery is an intense and very personal process for those who choose to undergo…
philly.com – By A.D. Amorosi – For The Inquirer
In I Am My Own Wife, playwright Doug Wright tells the true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf – a German transvestite who despite her dicey sexual identity somehow survived both the Nazi regime and the C…
guardian.co.uk – Prof Stephen Whittle
Whenever, wherever on this earth, we will find people who contravene gender boundaries. I’m not talking about the small ways of ‘queering’ gender, such as the lesbian separatists who wore dungarees in the 1970s….
portlandmercury.com – by Courtney Ferguson
Since 2007, the Portland Queer Documentary Film Fest (QDoc) has been screening LGBT documentaries with a rainbow of subjects. According to fest organizers, this year’s collection “features strong themes of …
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com – By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
President Obama on Wednesday extended a modest package of benefits to the same-sex partners of federal employees, a move that will make them eligible for day care, travel and relocation allowances…
tribune.com.pk – Express Times
Peshawar: The transvestite community here on Wednesday presented their own account of the May 24 incident in which police arrested a man and a transgender person for allegedly contracting marriage.
The transvestite …
blogtown.portlandmercury.com – Posted by Sarah Mirk
Queer community organizers are pulling together a public forum tomorrow night at the Q Center on Mississippi in response to an alarming gay bashing multiple people say occurred this weekend in the …