CampKC.com – by Jamie Tyroler
RuPaul’s Drag Race on Logo is great reality television. In the reunion show, one contestant, Ongina, identified as a gender fuck (the last word being bleeped out). Ongina caught some flak from some of the judges for loo…
CJOnline.com – By Chuck Berg
It isn’t every day that one runs into a jazz trio led by a bassist. On Sunday afternoon that truism was turned on its head as triple-threat bassist-vocalist-composer Jennifer Leitham powered her L.A.-based trio through a…
JazzTimes.com – Don Heckman
Jennifer Leitham says she’s always had a hard time sitting still when she’s onstage. Music has a visceral effect upon her, and never more so than when she’s caught up in a tune, her arms embracing her left-handed instrume…
News.AsiaOne.com – By Paisarn Likhitpreechakul
There’s a myth, especially among foreigners, that Thailand is “tolerant” towards gays and transgenders. After all, hardly a day goes by without one seeing ladyboys or katoeys (male-to-female transgender…
blog.AFI.com – By Cameron Koller – Special to the Daily News
Family can be a very touchy subject for some, particularly one as unorthodox as Miss Kimberly Reed’s.
Having changed her sex and name many years ago, the former Mr. McKerrow returns to …
Guardian.co.uk – The Guardian
I was born Maurice David Pepper on 16 January 1944 and grew up in London’s West End. My parents were what you might call ordinary working class; my father was an alterations tailor and we lived in a flat off Tottenham C…
Media.www.WebUJournal.com – By: Kelly Kendall
Webster Universiy’s 13th annual Drag Bal showcases 11 performers, both professional and amateur
Ripped stockings, fake hair and barely covering pasties lend itself to three hours of audiences tipping …
GayLesbianTimes.com – By Kenneth Harvey, Editorial Intern
Last weekend, the state-wide transgender community gathered for San Diego’s 4th Annual Transgender Leadership Summit.
Equality California, Transgender Law Center, along with more than 20 c…
Google.com/HostedNews – Associated Press – By Dionne Walker
Atlanta (AP) – Twelve years heading the Salvation Army’s downtown homeless shelter had done little to prepare Janeane Schmidt for the recent night when a soft-spoken biological male transit…
SouthernVoice.com – By Dyana Bagby
Trans homeless forced to choose between shelter, identity
Akasha Harding’s face is drawn and her eyes are sad.
In a dark storage room at the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless filled with stacks of un…