BurlingtonFreePress.com
The University of Vermont will be hosting the sixth annual Translating Identity Conference at the Davis Center.
The conference is a free, student-run, non-profit conference focusing on transgender communities and gender id…
PinkNews.co.uk – By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk
Freedom of assembly, freedom of expression and the right to life, liberty and security are often not applied to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons, a Council of Europe commissioner…
SMH.com.au – Dylan Welch
The drugs case against entertainer Todd McKenney has been dropped by police during a brief court hearing today.
McKenney, a radio, television and stage personality, was due to have his case heard this week, but the prosec…
SundayGazetteMail.com – Sandy Wells – Staff writer
Charlestown, W.Va. — The queen is dead. The drag queen, that is.
Bridget Nickles, aka Anthony Jarrell, died last week of weariness after an illustrious career as a female impersonator. She was 2…
Guardian.co.uk – Polly Vernon – The Observer
Between 1999 and 2005, Savannah Knoop lived an audacious double life as Jeremiah ‘Terminator’ LeRoy – a sex-change Aids sufferer whose stories, based around his white-trash upbringing and life on the stre…
SFist.com – By SFistRichard
Timecapsule: October 31, 1963
On Halloween night, the “Black Cat Cafe” — that notorious, flamboyant and most historically significant of San Francisco’s gay nightspots, held a final celebration before closing down for…
BangkokPost.com – Maxmilian Wechsler
With its skilled cosmetic surgeons and low prices, Thailand has become a mecca for people wanting to improve on nature and throw off the signs of ageing.
Aesthetic, or cosmetic, surgery has become very big bus…
NYTimes.com – By Kate Rood
My twin brother, Eli, is jealous of sea horses. They are the only animal species in which the male gives birth to the offspring. Male sea horses have brood pouches where the female deposits her eggs. The eggs then hatch in…
Gawker.com –
Great news for Obama: “Majority of Allegheny prostitutes are on the Democratic side.” This is a fantastic piece of investigative journalism by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. See, they found 675 people convicted of prostitution-related …
EdgeBoston.com
For the last few decades, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation has been at the forefront of improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Americans.
Our commitment to equality extends to the workplace, as we …