SFBayTimes.com – By Jacob Anderson-Minshall
?I had always wanted to meet a real writer, but none of them would ever hang out with me because of my overbite,? jokes transgender satirist Charlie Anders about the motivation behind her critically acclai…
IDSNews.com – By Chip Cutter
14 residence hall bathrooms now ‘gender neutral’
Some single-stall restrooms on campus have gotten a name change — from “male” or “female” to “gender neutral.”
The signage switch is designed to make the restrooms …
PhuketGazette.net
Phuket City: Phuket City Police have arrested five of nine youths wanted for the savage murder of Keittirat Longnawa, a 31-year-old transsexual and glue addict who was beaten and had his throat slashed in Rassada on January 31.
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Gay.com
Pakistan’s conservative landscape has embraced a shockingly progressive late-night TV show hosted by drag queen Begum Nawazish Ali.
The remarkably classy character, a glamorous aristocratic widow of an army colonel, Begum (“Madame”) Nawaz…
411Mania.com – Posted by J. Tithonus Pednaud
Ladies and gentlemen, presented for your twisted pleasure – the Cinema Sideshow. This week…Pink Flamingos.
For me the name John Waters, until very recently, evoked thoughts of campy movies like Seria…
TownsvilleBulletin.news.com.au – From correspondents in Dubai
Emirati police are hunting men and women who cross-dressed during celebrations in Dubai for the national team’s triumph in the Gulf Cup of Nations last week.
Thousands of fans took to …
Media.www.TuftsDaily.com – Bennett Kuhn
After a flurry of activity over the past few months that ended with a vote supporting the appearance of an amendment on the 2008 ballot to end same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, the status of the proposed ame…
SFGate.com – Matthew Kalman, Chronicle Foreign Service
Ramallah, West Bank – In the center of town in a cafe named Stars & Bucks, a young Palestinian who likes to be known as the Diva Nawal sips a bright pink milkshake and checks out the early eveni…
MLive.com – By Steven Hepker
Professor John Nemecek picked tough ground to make a stand in his journey to womanhood.
Christian-based Spring Arbor University is firing the transgender professor, effective June 1, choosing not to tolerate Nemecek’s…
News.Independent.co.uk – Interview by Julia Stuart
Jenny Kirk, 27, almost felt jealous when she heard that a 12-year-old in Germany had been diagnosed as a transsexual and was receiving treatment
When I read about a 12-year-old being given hormo…