EBAR.com – by Heather Cassell
The Trans Project was reborn last week as the Trans: Thrive Drop-in Center after the San Francisco Department of Public Health took over the project at the end of June from the University of California, San Francisco.
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BadgerHerald.com – by Mary Duke
A transgender activist said Wednesday there is an enormous misunderstanding about what the term “transgender” actually means.
Jessica Janiuk spoke to University of Wisconsin students Wednesday about her difficult j…
SouthernVoice.com – Lou Chibbaro Jr.
Reid says Senate vote on ENDA unlikely this year
The fate of a gay- and transgender-inclusive hate crimes bill was called into question this week when gay-supportive members of the House of Representatives thr…
TheHinduBusinessLine.com – Divya Trivedi
With very little support coming their way, transgenders have decided to speak up for their rights.
“We have a lot of talent and entrepreneurship which is unrecognised. When some of our people apply for job…
SFBayTimes.com – By Ann Rostow
With House passage of the Employment Nondiscrimination Act last week, the first phase of the ENDA wars is over. Even those who strongly opposed the idea of advancing an employment nondiscrimination bill that left out p…
Collegian.PSU.edu – By Katie Sullivan – For the Collegian
Alan Fitzgerald Walker, of Fayetteville, Ark., was beaten and strangled to death on Nov. 9, 1996. His home was vandalized and his tires slashed. His body was found three days later.
Yester…
TimesOnline.co.uk – Carolynne Wheeler in Jerusalem
For four years it stood as an oasis of tolerance in Jerusalem: a place where drag queens, ultra-Orthodox Jews and Palestinians could hang out, dance and drink pints, side by side.
But Shushan, th…
Examiner.com – by Kathleen Miller, The Examiner
Washington – Montgomery County Council members unanimously approved a measure that outlaws discrimination against transgender people, despite the outrage of protesters who worried the measure would al…
SSONet.com.au
After months in the studios recording their next CD, singer Jade Starr and her troupe of transsexuals and lesbians, known as Dreadcircus, are set to launch their latest album this week before jetsetting to Adelaide for the Feast festiv…
SSONet.com.au – As told to Sunny Burns
In 1970, my Muslim parents migrated from a little village in Turkey to start a family in Sydney. I was born in August a year later. I fell into performing by fate when, in the first year of high school, I went …