JournalNow.com – Susan Gilmor – relish editor
After Eric Hinson moved to Greensboro 10 years ago, he realized that he was missing something.
Both of the cities he had lived in before – Charlotte and Knoxville, Tenn. – had gay-pride festivals. Gre…
MetroWeekly.com – by Will O’Bryan
While Washington has some of the best civil-rights protections for transgender residents of any jurisdiction in the country — or the world, for that matter — those protections don’t always insulate the community f…
NPR.org
Day to Day, August 15, 2007 ? Three months ago, Mike Penner was a longtime sports columnist for The Los Angeles Times. Then he wrote a dramatic goodbye column and disappeared for several weeks.
“I am a transsexual sportswriter,” Penner w…
TheAge.com.au – Natalie Craig, Reviewer
Miss International Queen
Documentary, Channel: SBS,
Date: Friday August 17
Time: 10:00 PM
The cheeky sound of the “Mr Miss World” competition suggests that it’s an enlightened, self-aware version of the…
Stuff.co.nz
Cross-dressing Auckland boxer Queen Mandela wears lipstick matched to her red tracksuit, and packs a mean right hook.
Born anatomically male, in Samoa, as Merota Tasilimu, Mandela is one of a group transvestite boxers taking to the ri…
The-Dispatch.com – BY Sha’Day Jackson
Robbie Cohn, 56, has decided she will no longer pretend to be someone she is not.
“After the genie was out of the bottle, I told myself that I would never live in denial ever again,” said Cohn, who was bor…
Newsweek.WashingtonPost.com
Lahore, Pakistan – “I’m a drag queen, darling?not an extremist?and I still say if Pakistanis had more self-respect, we’d be even more anti-American,” says Ali Saleem, who glosses his lips and dons a sari each week to inte…
ThisIsLondon.co.uk – Andrew Williams
As every two-bit gag-merchant in town has hot-footed it to the Edinburgh Festival, so it falls to the talents of globe-trotting drag queen Miss Coco Peru to put bums on seats at the Soho Theatre. With a 14-year d…
News.MonstersAndCritics.com
Jakarta – An organization for transvestites plans to participate in events marking Indonesia’s Independence Day this week, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
About 265 members of the Yogyakarta Transvestites Organization, b…
Scoop.co.nz – Press Release: Agender New Zealand
Transgender Awareness Day 15 August 2007
In August 1966, at an all night caf? called Comptons, in the city of San Francisco, transgendered people for the first time fought back against the harassme…