AVClub.com – By Bree Davies
It didn’t take much to pull Joel Valenzuela out of drag-queen retirement. A hairstylist and makeup artist by day, Valenzuela gave up drag in 2007 to take a break from the expensive and often mentally draining drag scene t…
EBAR.com – by Seth Hemmelgarn
More than five years since state legislation to ensure employment and housing protections for transgender people went into effect, many still face discrimination, according to a recently released report.
According to…
PittsburghLive.com – By Kurt Shaw, Tribune-Review Art Critic
On Nov. 18, 1996, artist and doll maker Greer Lankton died in her Chicago apartment from an accidental drug overdose, a month after completing her installation “It’s All About ME, Not You”…
WilliamsonDailyNews.com – By Jessica Hatfied & Loretta Tacket – Williamson Daily News Staff
Kerit – “I am the devil everyone has been talking about,” said Lark Muncy, dressed as his stage character Ashley Stone during The Witches Ball on Saturday ni…
Metro.us – Tony Lee
President Barack Obama signed legislation yesterday expanding federal hate crimes to include offenses against people based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
It was a mighty swipe of the pen for those in Massachusetts w…
Parenting.blogs.NYTimes.com – By Lisa Belkin
As Halloween nears I got an email from a reader, B., who is looking for advice. She is trying to do the right thing for her son, who isn’t like the other boys he knows, and she asked me to ask Motherlode …
HuffingtonPost.com – Filed by Katy Hall
Chaz Bono, Cher’s son, is in the midst of physically becoming a man. In a two-part interview with Entertainment Tonight’s Mary Hart (to air Thursday and Friday nights), he opens up for the first time about get…
MLive.com – By Kelle Barr
Kalamazoo – When lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adolescents are rejected by family members, they may abuse drugs or lapse into deep depression.
Some engage in behavior that spikes their risk for sexually transmit…
TIPS-Q.com – Submitted by GayNewsService.com
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy and anti-defamation organization, announced award recipients at the 1st GLA…
SXNews.e-p.net.au – Written by Garrett Bithell
She may look like a cross between Marilyn Monroe and Jessica Rabbit, but Amanda Lepore, the world’s most famous transsexual, wouldn’t have it any other way. The living work of art spoke to Garrett B…