kentucky.com – By Rich Copley
Transylvania University assistant English professor Kremena Todorova had just been introduced to the world of drag.
She specializes in the literature of marginalized communities, and at the end of a class on “passing…
kentucky.com – By Lee Romney – Los Angeles Times
San Francisco — Michelle WallowingBull was born a boy. But growing up on Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation, she knew from age 5 that she was a girl inside.
As a teen she bounced from the res…
gothamist.com – By Jaya Saxena
A cross-dressing teen from Cape May, NJ was told by his principal that wearing a dress to his prom would “violate the school’s dress code.” Derrek Lutz had previously told WCBS, “What makes me a woman is inside and it …
theonlinecitizen.com – By Sylvia Tan
After being verbally abused and asked to leave a club for a second time in months, a transgender performance artist and two other transgender women have taken a stand and launched a campaign to end discrimination…
ibnlive.in.com – Meenakshi Mahadevan, CNN-IBN
Chennai: 30-year-old Rose Venkatesan, the first transgender in India to become a television host. It’s Rose’s first birthday as a woman on Thursday. She underwent a sex-change surgery last on March.
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news.asiaone.com – By Sia Ling Xin
Club operators have a right to turn away anyone who wishes to enter their clubs as their premises are considered private, said lawyers who spoke to my paper.
Once let in, the guest should not be asked to leave o…
texastribune.org – by Brandi Grissom
The El Paso County attorney wants the state’s top lawyer to tell her whether she can issue a marriage certificate to a woman and a biological male who had a sex change operation to become a woman.
County Atto…
lezgetreal.com – by Bridgette P. LaVictoire
I have not written one of these in a while, but given that it is a fairly slow news day for the LGBT Community, I thought I would write something away from the normal run of news and opinion.
Let me be …
thejakartaglobe.com – Dessy Sagita
An Indonesian transsexual organization has criticized the Depok public order agency for failing to prevent dozens of hard-line Islamic activists from charging into a civil rights training session organized by the N…
boston.com – Letter to the Editor – Claire B. Naughton
RE “SOME Democrats want to add panel seats based on sexual ID”’ (Metro, April 23): As cochairs of the Bay State Stonewall Democrats, a caucus for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender comm…