Cant get the T out of Midtown

SoVo.com – By Dyana Bagby

Resorting to name-calling by labeling transgender sex workers ?transvestitutes? is a childish way to deal with a serious issue.

The Myrtle Room at Mary Mac?s Tea Room was packed Nov. 13 with some 50 people attending the …

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Trapped in the wrong body

SLTrib.com – By Jennifer W. Sanchez

Born a girl, but sure he was a boy, ‘Tom’ has listened to his heart, lives life as a man

He kissed little girls. He begged for a football. And he dressed up as a soldier, Dracula and the Lone Ranger.

“Tom” w…

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Activist takes stand against trans violence

Collegian.PSU.edu – By Meaghan Haugh – Collegian Staff Writer

During grade school, when her classmates began to call her derogatory names, Gwen Smith knew what was bound to happen next.

“It meant I was just about to get the crap beaten out of me,…

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LGBT ally Elliott Blackstone dies

EBar.com – by Liz Highleyman

Former San Francisco Police Sergeant Elliott Blackstone, a longtime ally of the LGBT community, died October 25, a month shy of his 82nd birthday.

According to an obituary placed in the San Francisco Chronicle, Sgt. B…

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