TheWIP.net – by Jessica Mosby
Last year Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told an audience at Columbia University, “In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals, like in your country.” His characteristically outrageous comment was met with laughter and bo…
ThaiIndian.com – By Ayyappa Prasad
Chennai (IANS) Karpaka and Revathi, who are transgenders in real life, will rewrite cinema history by playing ‘female’ leads in the forthcoming Tamil films “Paal” and “Thenavattu”. While Karpaka features as the cen…
GayWired.com – By Jacob Anderson-Minshall
“I used to dress up in my mother’s clothes every chance I got,” recalls Michael D. Silverman, executive director of Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF). “Her makeup bag was my favorite toy. I’…
InNewsWeekly.com
Brian Viglione Talks About The Dresden Dolls’ Message to Its Gay Fans
Having spent nearly two years solid on the road since the release of their second album “Yes, Virginia,” including tours with Panic! at the Disco, the True Col…
WOAI.com
Police in New Orleans are looking for a cross-dresser who robbed a fast food restaurant.
The suspect climbed through the takeout window at a Burger King May 11th. The gun-toting thief was dressed in drag. The man had a revealing bustline…
CampKC.com – by Jamie Tyroler
Donna Ross came out very publicly in Portland, Ore., before moving to Kansas City a few years ago. In April, she was in the news for her testimony to Kansas City’s Transportation and Infrastructure Committee of City Co…
AmericanChronicle.com – Dave Muskera, M.A.
A recent NPR production on Children´s Health by Alix Spiegel dealt with the gender identity disorder sometimes known as transgenderism – a situation where an individual has the physical body of one sex (ma…
CanadaEast.com – Andy Blatchford, The Canadian Press
Montreal – Cynthia Tebbetts’s fingers fidgeted on the steering wheel during the four-hour drive from New Hampshire to Montreal.
As his blue Chevy wound its way through New England’s mountainous…
GayCityNews.com – By: Duncan Osborne
Transgender and gay activists are objecting to some members of an American Psychiatric Association (APA) committee that will weigh changes to the definition of gender identity disorder (GID), a diagnosis that a…
TheStar.com – Rob Ferguson – Queen’s Park Bureau
Smitherman says surgery for `very serious medical condition’ will cost health plan $200,000 yearly
The small number of Ontarians hoping for sex-change operations will soon see the surgery covered b…