MercuryNews.com – Nathan Ichtertz – Sentinel Correspondent
Watsonville, CA – Olga Fuentes, a 37-year-old lesbian, is proud of who she is and she wants others in Watsonville’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community to feel the same.
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Straight.com – By Carlito Pablo
Raigen D’Angelo recalls playing a low-key role in the transgender-rights movement as a sex-trade worker during the 1990s.
“I did not want my clients to know about me, and if you look at the picture of me on the wal…
SFGate.com – Violet Blue, special to SF Gate
Rounding up and testing female ‘gender suspects’ while disallowing sex talk to foreigners makes Beijing look like a bad place to be a top female athlete
In a couple weeks, the Olympics begin in China. …
EBAR.com – by Seth Hemmelgarn
As the Human Rights Campaign held its San Francisco fundraising gala at the Westin St. Francis Hotel Saturday, July 26, about 250 people gathered outside to loudly protest the group’s backing of a federal Employment Non…
Telegraph.co.uk –
When couples marry in the Church of England, they traditionally make the promise, “All that I have I share with you”. But is this vow really supposed to include beauty products?
The male grooming industry certainly seems to t…
Guardian.co.uk – Emine Saner – The Guardian
We’re familiar with drug testing for athletes, but officials at the Beijing Olympics will be taking things one stage further and examining competitors whose sex is in doubt. And it is far from being a new …
TimesOfMalta.com
A woman, who was born a man but was legally declared female following gender reassignment surgery, filed a Constitutional application today claiming that a previous court decision stopping her from getting married was in breach of h…
EdgeBoston.com – by Kilian Melloy – EDGE Contributor
Some in the transgender community have not quite forgiven the Human Rights Campaign for last summer’s incident in which the HRC went along with a plan to cull language regarding gender identity an…
OutAndAboutNewspaper.com – By Carla Lewis
Editor’s note: Below is an account from Carla Lewis of Sunday’s tragic church shooting at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville…
Jaime and I were running late to church Sunday …
Shifting Gears
Dear Through the Looking Glass Readers,
Thank you for your support these past two years, but alas I must slow down the pace of my writing. As my children have gotten older, now eight and nine, they’ve gotten hard to ignore and act…