NYSun.com – By Steve Dollar
Underground icon Jack Smith is famous ? or is that infamous? ? for a 1963 film that was a free-speech lightning rod in its day but is rarely screened anymore. His 43-minute “Flaming Creatures” was an orgiastic hallucinati…
Advocate.com – By Joanne Herman
Most gay and lesbian organizations have become LGBT organizations in recent years. If their missions now include transgender people, why don?t their boards?
Late last year the media were filled with reports that A…
UK.Reuters.com
New Delhi (Reuters Life!) – A British transsexual has angered local eunuchs at a Hindu temple in north India because she monopolised the donations given by devotees seeking the eunuchs’ blessing, media reports said.
Pamela, who was…
ShropShireStar.co.uk
Telford & Wrekin Council is poised to commit itself to a gender equality scheme – ensuring that men and women enjoy equal pay and job opportunities. The policy will also be extended to all borough schools.
This will mean gove…
Telegraph.co.uk
Eddie Izzard is big news in America but he’s had to go easy on the cross-dressing. He talks to John Hiscock
Eddie Izzard looks every inch the Hollywood player. Dressed in a dark “power” suit and looking slim with a neat goatee, he…
RockyMountainNews.com – By Chris Barge, Rocky Mountain News
Aurora City Council hopeful open about life as transgender
Aurora – Pam Bennett marched into a meeting with a local newspaper editor last month and announced, “As you know, I’m not the g…
Expatica.com
MADRID ? Julio Cuesta is the first transsexual to officially change sex without undergoing an operation under a new law.
The 50-year-old ended a five year legal fight by taking advantage of the first Law of Gender Identification.
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Content.HamptonRoads.com – By Gillian Gaynair, The Virginian-Pilot
The night before a recital, Tona Brown stands facing her best friend and vocal coach.
“All right, perform for me,” Jennifer Randall says. “Lemme see what you’re giving tomorrow.”
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JamaicaObserver.com – Erica Virtue, Observer writer
The Mandeville Police were called to restore order at the funeral service for slain Manchester businessman Kirk Wayne Lester on Sunday as residents, upset by the style of dress of some mourners who…
OwenSoundSunTimes.com – Jim Algie
Linda Ann Wootton used to be Art.
The change formally began about nine years ago with a diagnosis of gender identity disorder. But Wootton, now 62 and living in Owen Sound, has been working this out all her life….