Seven Great Myths Among Us (MTFs)
Welcome back Through the Looking Glass, my friends. As MTFs, be we crossdressers, transsexuals, or those that love us, we have a number of myths that we use to soothe ourselves and to try to better our chances of be…
HamptonRoads.com – By Malcolm Venable – The Virginian-Pilot
One Saturday evening in spring, female impersonators strutted, sashayed and lip-synched to R&B and gospel songs at a Norfolk banquet hall while guests showered them with dollar bills. Peop…
We are the parents of a 29-year-old male-to-female transsexual. When our child came out to us six years ago, we found that there was very little support for us in print, so, we are writing a book with the working title Now What? Parents of Transgender…
BeyondChron.org – by Tommi Avicolli Mecca
“This is one for the history books,” said Robert Haaland, a longtime San Francisco transgender activist. He couldn’t be more on the money. A coalition of groups, including Pride at Work, And Castro 4 All, an…
ThaiIndian.com – By Gurmukh Singh
Toronto (IANS) Indian American researcher Pamela Roy raised quite a few eyebrows at a seminar during a North American Bengali Convention here by openly debating homosexuality among Canadian-born Indian youth. The fi…
WashingtonPost.com – By Lydie Raschka – Special to The Washington Post
The night my church opened its 10-bed homeless shelter for 18-to-24-year-olds, I volunteered to supervise them. A novice to any kind of shelter experience, I was nervous as I dra…
Hindu.com – Vaishna Roy
As Rose, the host of ‘Ippadikku Rose’, fights to realign rigid notions about gender and sexuality, it’s worth asking if we know what tolerance really means.
As Rose says: “What about my hobbies, my friends, my skills? Ther…
November 7 – 9, 2008: EXOTICA Detroit 4, featuring SKIN TWO.
If you’ve ever been to Exotica, there’s no explanation needed. With an average attendance of over 4,500 guests, this is the largest fetish erotic expo in the Midwest, and one of the larges…
GayNZ.com – By GayNZ.com News Staff
Internationally renowned queer theorist Judith Halberstam will speak about gender conceptions shown in recent animated movies when she visits Auckland University next month.
Judith Halberstam, a Professor of En…
Telegram.com – By Nancy Sheehan – Telegram & Gazette Staff
Local stylist Christian Rea is facing a hair-raising challenge.
Rea, of Sutton, has been chosen to appear on the Style Network show “Split Ends.” The hit series looks at what happens when…