ExpressBuzz.com – Mayur Suresh
The LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) rights movement lays claim to a broad and diverse history. As Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Delhi and Chennai gear up to celebrate LGBT Pride this week (Kolkata’s will be on …
Tehelka.com – From Tehelka Magazine
Queer Pride Week comes once a year but millions of Indian women fight all year round – as women, ‘single’ women and lesbians, finds Amrita Nandy-Joshi
Even if they are not fed healthy food, little girls in Indi…
ThisIsCornwall.co.uk
A dearth of women has led a small rural village to choose a carnival queen with a difference for its centrepiece annual procession – a 6ft-tall hairy-chested carpenter.
The high cost of traditional carnival queen dresses, acc…
RantRave.com – Written by Rudi Stettner
A pair of Swedish parents have made an unprecedented decision in raising their child. They have decided to keep the child’s gender a secret, giving it the name “Pop” which in Swedish is apparently an androgyno…
NYTimes.com – By Guy Trebay
It was impossible to look away from him – not when he was a dimpled child singer crowned with a pillowy Afro, not when he became a pop demigod uniformed in rhinestones and epaulets to command what were always referred to …
DemocracyNow.org – Mya Leilani Vazquez
Today is the fourth annual Trans Day of Action for Social and Economic Justice. A rally to the Stonewall Inn is planned for this afternoon to “let the world know, that on the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, the …
Examiner.com – Matt Kailey – Denver Transgender Issues Examiner
Members of Congress have announced the introduction of a trans-inclusive federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), but Colorado is already there.
Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), al…
EdgeBoston.com – by Kilian Melloy – EDGE Staff Reporter
In keeping with his promise to work for full equality for GLBT Americans, President Obama’s administration is set to put protections for transgendered federal workers into place.
The protect…
SoVo.com – By: Laura Douglas-Brown
Official Pride festival isn’t until Halloween, but plenty of events mark LGBT rights milestone
This year will be one of only a handful since 1971 that Atlanta hasn’t commemorated the anniversary of the Stonewall…
TransMarch.org
March Info
Friday, June 26th come out to Dolores Park in San Francisco for the largest trans event in the world!
See and be Seen 3pm – 7pm
March at 7pm
Trans Day of Action in NY this Friday
Mon, 06/22/2009 – 8:31pm
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