YaleDailyNews.com – Lawrence Gipson – Staff Reporter
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups on campus kicked off the celebration of the sixth-annual Trans Awareness Week on Wednesday.
The seven-day event – the largest in the Trans Awarenes…
EBAR.com – compiled by Cynthia Laird
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Transgender Day of Remembrance and an event will take place in Oakland on Sunday, November 16 at 5 p.m. in Niles Hall in Preservation Park, 1233 Preservation Park Way. …
Canada.com/EdmontonJournal – Gilbert A. Bouchard
Edmonton – The second annual Exposure Queer Arts and Culture Festival starts Friday, giving Edmontonians a chance to explore and celebrate all the different aspects of queer culture and queer contribu…
OneNewsNow.com – Jim Brown – OneNewsNow
Peter LaBarberaA conservative activist is expressing alarm over president-elect Barack Obama’s plan to expand a Clinton-era executive order that provides special protections for federal employees based on thei…
PrideSource.com – By Jim Larkin
Flint – Vanessa Lynne understands only too well the confusion and doubt that many feel about those who are transgender. After all, she has struggled with it for all of her 44 years, not coming out until just a few yea…
OutAndAboutNewspaper.com – by Joey Leslie – Managing Editor
Eight years ago, Rita Hester, a popular figure in Boston’s rock ‘n roll scene, became a victim of transphobic violence when she was found stabbed to death in her Brighton, Mass., apartment…
PageOneQ.com – by Nick Cargo
In what is being viewed as a strong signal to activists nationwide, the transition office of President-elect Barack Obama has issued a non-discrimination policy including sexual orientation and gender identity.
“The O…
BLogs.NashvilleScene.com – by Brantley Hargrove
Another transgendered Memphian is dead: Identified initially as Dwayne Johnson, Duanna Johnson is the very same woman who was savagely beaten down in a Memphis jail by two cops. Johnson was initially p…
MeriNews.com – Francis P Barclay
Discrimination, oppression, injustice, endless are the woes of transsexuals, who seek a fair deal from society. But their woes continue, as the tinsel world too has begun to tease them on the big screen to generate a…
TVGuide.com – by Gina DiNunno
New reality series Sex Change Hospital (WE tv Tuesdays, 11 pm/ET) follows patients – from retired grandfathers to construction workers, businessman and office managers – as they undergo surgery to transition from one g…