UnionDemocrat.com – By Mike Morris
A resolution on gay pride month, which Tuolumne County supervisors were asked Tuesday to support, sparked a passionate half-hour discussion, including one supervisor’s candid talk regarding his own vow of celibacy…
Stuff.co.nz – By Emma Bailey – The Timaru Herald
Last week Noel became Noeleena.
The retired 60-year-old married man and father of three returned to Waimate from Phuket on Saturday after gender reassignment surgery, legally making he a she.
N…
EvolutionPublishing.com.au
Crusader Hillis highlights a recent case of legalised discrimination that appears to have been swept under the carpet.
Trans activist Sally Goldner: the sole voice of protest in the queer media.
Reading about the fur…
Reuters.com – By Jonathan Allen
Maharajganj, India (Reuters) – To earn a living, Kiran dresses up in women’s clothes, dances at wedding parties in the Indian countryside and tries not to struggle when he is raped at knifepoint by drunken male weddin…
PinkNews.co.uk – PinkNews.co.uk writer
The Human Rights Campaign have released their 2008 Democratic candidate questionnaire outlining where the announced candidates for President stand on issues important to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgend…
Media.www.StaterOnline.com – Kate Bigam
Kent State practices tolerance and advocates privacy.
What terrible things, I know.
Just how terrible? Ask Akron Beacon Journal columnist Bob Dyer, and he’ll tell you how disgusted he is by the school’s …
HamiltonSpectator – By Sharon Boase
Deirdre Pike was at her desk at the Social Planning and Research Council one afternoon last November when a nurse from a city clinic called for help.
The nurse was treating a teenager for depression who was al…
Reuters.com
New York (Reuters Life!) – A drag queen has taken the art of selling Tupperware to a new level by turning his story into an off-Broadway show.
Instead of demonstrating the plastic containers at coffee mornings and parties in suburban ho…
TurkishDailyNews.com.tr – Duygu Guvenc
They are rejecting my application to stand for the election just because they do not want shame for the Turkish Republic, said Ayşe T?kr?k??, 40, a former prostitute whose dream is to enter Parliament to v…
Queerty.com
Confuse Us…
Being gay in India ain’t easy. As we’ve seen, the former British colony refuses to shed Section 377, the anachronistic law banning homosexuality. Well, the issue came up this weekend over at India’s NDTV, where journo Re…