ABCLocal.Go.com – By Gerrick Brenner
Durham – For 12-years a band and music teacher named Leslie Webster has taught at the Duke School for Children – a private kindergarten through eighth grade school near the Duke University campus. Now Ms. Webster…
BayWindows.com – Laura Kiritsy
Max Feldman, who wrote and recorded the first song that proclaimed a lesbian identity, died unexpectedly at home in Albuquerque, N.M., on Aug. 17. Feldman, who was 62, died of natural causes, said Helen Thornton, Fel…
SouthernVoice.com
Boise, Idaho (AP) An inmate who castrated herself with a disposable razor blade after prison officials refused to treat her for gender identity disorder should have female hormone therapy paid for by the state, a federal judge said…
EBAR.com – by Ed Walsh
The former suspect in the 1996 murder of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey told the Bay Area Reporter that he had sought gender reassignment surgery, not because of any driving desire to become a woman, but to help him a…
DailySquib.co.uk – by Barbera Beaujolais
Tel Aviv – Israel – Amina Winer House is the next Israeli hope for the Eurovision song contest. He was spotted in Eilat with his husband and wants to follow in the footsteps of the 1998 winner Dana Internatio…
CommonDreams.org
Assemblymember Eng?s Hate Crimes Resolution, Sponsored by EQCA, Passes Senate
Sacramento – The California Senate on Monday approved a resolution urging Congress and the president to strengthen the federal hate crimes law. Senato…
PinkNews.co.uk – Gemma Pritchard
BBC3 has commissioned eight documentaries for its third Body Image season, including the story of an 18-year-old who travels to Thailand to undergo a sex-change.
BBC3 will follow up last season’s Lucy: Teen Transs…
SFBayTimes.com – By Sister Dana Van Iquity
Can you believe it? The Cookie Dough Monster Show is celebrating its THIRD anniversary! So naturally the Dough lady had to have Heklina, her inspiration, to co-femcee the party. The show took place in its u…
SFBayTimes.com – By Jacob Anderson-Minshall
Actress-Filmmaker M.C. Brennan has exciting news. After her transgender teen comedy, Dramatis Personae, won an Outfest Screenwriting Lab fellowship and was given a staged reading?with Exes and Oh?s auteur …
GayCityNews.com – By Arthur S. Leonard
A federal judge in Wisconsin has rejected an attempt to expand an existing suit challenging a new state law that forbids providing hormone therapy or sex reassignment surgery for transgendered inmates at govern…