TorontoSun.com – By Tracy McLaughlin, Special to Sun Media
Barrie — An inmate of an institution for the criminally insane was left in limbo yesterday after a judge refused her request to have the government pay for a $15,000 assessment that would q…
PressTelegram.com – By Colleen Donnelly, Staff Writer
Long Beach — The Cal State Long Beach Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center plans to examine relationships among race and ethnicity, gender and gender identity, spirituality and…
SuburbanChicagoNews.com – By Erika Wurst
Two beers and an open mind is what it took to get Jay Galassi to his first Tupperware party. Well, that and some coaxing from co-worker Shannon Stark, who scooped up five tickets to “Dixie’s Tupperware Party”…
Canada.com – BY Jordana Huber, CanWest News Service
Toronto – Paying for a sex change assessment for a convicted rapist living in a maximum-security psychiatric facility is not the responsibility of the Ministry of the Attorney General, an Ontario …
GayCharleston.CCPblogs.com – By Greg Hambrick
Sordid Lives, the Del Shores play that birthed the campy 2000 cult-classic film and subsequent cable TV show last year is coming to Charleston. The local Footlight Players will be telling the story of a …
Boston.com – By Wesley Morris – Globe Staff
It’s called “Chocolate,” but “Cheese” would have been just as good. Soaked with tears, full of schmaltz, and yet strewn with bodies, Prachya Pinkaew’s new kick-’em-up is extreme action, extreme melodrama, …
MichiganMessenger.com – By Todd A. Heywood
The Michigan Department of Corrections announced Thursday it has implemented a new policy which will prevent discrimination against prisoners who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
The ne…
EurekAlert.org – Jeff Sheehy – University of California – San Francisco
The UCSF Center of Excellence for Transgender HIV Prevention (CoE) has received a grant from The California Endowment that will expand access to information and resources on pr…
Hour.ca – Richard Burnett
The very day al-Qaeda terrorists flew two jetliners into NYC’s World Trade Center on 9/11, Luc Plamondon was in Paris watching a one-night-only revival of his famous rock musical Starmania, in which terrorists bomb the 121…
SFGate.com – Aidin Vaziri, Chronicle Staff Writer
Laura Albert has a picture of Borat pinned to her office wall. It’s perfect. Like comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, the 43-year-old San Francisco novelist invented an outrageous character to grab the world…