Workers.org – By Leslie Feinberg
When the Democrats are the minority in Congress, they promise “a chicken in every pot” if voters elevate them to the majority. Once the Democrats hold numerical sway on Capitol Hill, however, many hopeful activists l…
GayCityNews.com – By: Andy Humm & Paul Schindler
Hoping to put a halt to growing divisions over ENDA’s scope, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi indicated the Democratic leadership is now prepared to move forward with Barney Frank’s trimmed-down version …
Boston.com – By Joanna Weiss, Globe Staff
Carmelita is beautiful. There’s really no denying it. She is sultry, with long blond hair and ample cleavage. She looks fairly majestic in a ball gown. That she used to be a man is an afterthought.
Almost…
SeattlePI.NWSource.com
Seattle police believe the Thursday afternoon beating of a transsexual woman may have been a hate crime, the P-I’s Levi Pulkkinen reports.
About 5:15 p.m., police received a report that a man was assaulting a woman in the 6…
Media.www.ClaiforniaAggie.com – By Ann Kim
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center presents “Queer Revolution: Rise Up & Resist!”
Lions and tigers and bears don’t hold a candle to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, que…
DailyCamera.com – By Alyssa Urish, Camera Staff Writer
Sandra Azcarate has never considered herself “mainstream.”
She listens to The Ramones and The Sex Pistols, likes artsy movies and intellectual conversations and grew up in Peru — so there are…
BayWindows.com – Ethan Jacobs
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has taken major hits on LGBT op-ed pages, activist blogs and listservs for its decision not to oppose a split version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), and the organizatio…
SFBayTimes.com – By Dennis McMillan
“This is a divide that we cannot afford,” says Masen Davis, executive director of San Francisco’s Transgender Law Center. “LGBT organizations and allies have been working for years to pass a bill that protects gay…
Media.www.TheBatt.com – By: Thomas McKigney
Phyllis Randolph Frye, advocate for transgender rights, shared her story of struggle as a transsexual Thursday in the Stark Galleries at Texas A&M’s Memorial Student Center.
Before her transition she gr…
GayCityNews.com – By Andy Humm
Gay and lesbian activists, me included, have a long, shameful history of throwing people of transgender experience under the bus, and out gay Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, whom I otherwise admire, is prepa…