ABQTrib.com – By Lorinda Toledo
Thick, colorful paint was nearly the only thing that covered the bare skin of strutting models last year at the first U.S. Body Painting Festival in Albuquerque.
But despite the bodies on display, it was the models…
BayWindows.com – Ethan Jacobs
The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC) will hold a training Sept. 20 for supporters to learn how to testify before the legislature?s Judiciary Committee for an expected hearing this fall on House Bill…
NYPost.com – By Frank Scheck
One of the fortunate if trivial side effects of the end of the “troubles” in Northern Ireland was that, once it subsided, so would the flood of imported plays about it.
“Rock Doves,” the new play by Marie Jones, signa…
GayWired.com – By Fred Topel
Transgender women probably wish that real life medical procedures could make them look like Rebecca Romijn. Alas, she is only an actor playing transgender on Ugly Betty. While transgender women have to suffer through tre…
HuffingtonPost.com – Deborah J. Vagins
It’s Time for Congress to Help Bring LGBT Employees Out of the Shadows at Work
Alex Gorinsky was a well-regarded account manager for five years at a Texas finance leasing firm, consistently getting positive …
VueWeekly.com – Ted Kerr
Meet Laura, your friendly next-door gaybour.
Laura Crawford is a 24-year-old thinker, drag king, poet and work-in-progress who grew up in Kingston, Nova Scotia, population 3000. She is a self-identified transgendered, big…
ProgressiveU.org – By SmellyCat-13
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When he was six years old, Richard Bear discovered something about himself.
He was at a summer camp. On the boys side of the camp, he was severely abused by his campmates. His mother – who worked at the c…
BizJournals.com – by Chris Rauber
Nearly 200 U.S. companies scored perfect “100s” on a national human rights group’s sixth annual Corporate Equality Index, including San Francisco Bay Area giants such as Yahoo Inc., Google Inc., Clorox Corp., Kaiser…
GeelongAdvertiser.com.au – Britt Smith
A member of Geelong’s gay community has blasted organisers of a gay nightclub for operating in secrecy.
Caleb Smythe, a drag queen, said Geelong was not as homophobic as people believed and there was no need…
365Gay.com – by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
(Melbourne, Australia) A transsexual who transitioned from male to female in 2002 has been handed a difficult choice by Australia’s Federal Court – either divorce your wife or keep your male designation of…