HuffingtonPost.com – Anna Kirey
Very few people can immediately place where I am from. When I say “Kyrgyzstan” I have to add: a mountainous country in Central Asia, once part of the Soviet Union, that is predominantly Muslim. It sounds like the midd…
Examiner.com – by Chad Jones, S.F. Theater Examiner
Clinton Leupp doesn’t pretend to be a girl. He’s a man in a dress with a drag alter-ego named Coco Peru. He’s very much a man and very much Coco – two personalities for the price of one. Now that’…
Metro.co.uk
Exhibition: As a former singer, transvestite DJ and book designer, Paul Fryer has had an interesting and varied career. As an installation artist, however, he excels.
His largest solo exhibition, Let There Be More Light, has just open…
TheAtlantic.com – by Hanna Rosin
Since he could speak, Brandon, now 8, has insisted that he was meant to be a girl. This summer, his parents decided to let him grow up as one. His case, and a rising number of others like it, illuminates a heated sci…
OnTopMag.com – By On Top Magazine Staff
Comedienne/chat-show host Ellen DeGeneres announced she was gay on the front cover of Time magazine in 1997 with the headline, “Yup, I’m Gay.” Many blamed the decision to come out for stalling her skyrocketing…
AmericanChronicle.com – Karen Franklin, Ph.D.
It’s a tried-and-true formula:
Do a quick-and-dirty study or two. Find a huge, perhaps escalating, problem that has heretofore been overlooked. Create a product label (aka diagnosis). And, voila! The…
OutInColumbus.com – OIA Newswire
IDKE is a first-of-its-kind event in that it is a collaborative, non-competitive gathering of drag king community performers, their fans, and the people who study, photograph and film them. It was originally started …
HorrorYearBook.com – Published by Gary Gaymon
That man in high-heels just tried to kill me!!!
Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho not only jumpstarted the modern horror film, it also introduced a new kind of villain to movie audiences – the transexual kill…
NewScientist.com – Posted by Michael Marshall
The Neurotopia blog draws our attention to an intriguing paper in Acta Medica Okayama. Titled “Phantom erectile penis after sex reassignment surgery”, it’s a report by a group of surgeons at Okayama Uni…
EconomicTimes.IndiaTimes.com
Sanand: Sanand is a mixed bag of surprises. The land is just as rich in tales of supernatural as in grit and determination. One such intriguing story comes from Charal village, just 8 km away from Nano site. Legend has i…