newnownext.com – by Les Fabian Brathwaite
Lady Gaga has reportedly asked Eurovision winner, bearded drag queen, and my new spirit animal Conchita Wurst to join her on tour as an opening act.
According to Austrian news site, oe24 (via The Huffingt…
mediaite.com – by Matt Wilstein
John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch is finally on Broadway this year, more than 15 years after the drag queen-starring musical became a smash-hit off-Broadway in the late ’90s. But the warm reception it …
theaustralian.com.au – Chief Court Reporter Seaqn Fewser, The Advertiser
A woman involved in the infamously grotesque slaughter of a transvestite has been given a new seven-year jail term that encompasses all her criminal offending.
Donna Lee Cas…
theguardian.com – Nancy Goldstein
Transgender people – and some of the issues they face – have achieved an unprecedented level of media visibility in the last year, from trans celebrities Janet Mock and Laverne Cox, to Chelsea Manning and CeCe McDon…
huffingtonpost.com – Jorge R. Petit, MD – Bilingual psychiatrist practicing in NYC & president of QHSGroup providing training and consulting services for healthcare systems
Being a parent is not easy; parenting is hard work. It requires determinatio…
dallasvoice.com – Anna Waugh – News Editor
Jodielynn Wiley faced being turned out on the street a few weeks ago when her time at the Dallas Salvation Army was nearing an end.
Wiley, a transgender woman who fled from death threats based on her gen…
windycitymediagroup.com
The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs ( NCAVP ) in association with GLAAD, the National Center for Transgender Equality ( NCTE ), the National Black Justice Coalition ( NBJC ), the Gay and Lesbian Taskforce and Tra…
diamondbackonline.com – Zachary Mellen – For The Diamondback
Students do not have to be policy or law professionals to become full-time social advocates, transgender rights activist Andy Bowen told students Tuesday.
Bowen spoke to about 15 studen…
bustle.com – By Alicia Lutes
When a 2013 ABC News/Washington Post poll showed that 58 percent of Americans believed gay marriage should be legal, up from 34 percent in 2003, it was clear that a sea change was underway for American sexual norms. Seve…
thespec.com – By Colleen McTigue
March 31 is International Transgender Day of Visibility. This event was started in 2009 by Michigan-based transgender activist Rachel Crandall as a way to celebrate the transgender community in all its diversity. It …