ioFilm.co.uk – Thessaly
It’s tempting to reach for extremes when talking about Ed Wood. To say his films are the worst ever made, or conversely to argue that they’re lost classics, cult gems ahead of their time. They’re neither – or both – but the o…
MyWebTimes.com – Dan Churney
Ottawa – By day, Derek Buckley of Oglesby is a hair stylist in Peru.
However, one night per month a block away from Ottawa’s main drag, he goes into drag, transforming himself into “Davina Divine” at Court Street Caba…
AlterElton.com – Rachel Kramer Bussel
Josh Kilmer-Purcell is not your average drag queen?or even your average former drag queen. The boyishly handsome ad agency exec recounts his drag past in the recent memoir I Am Not Myself These Days, detailing …
Mainichi Daily News
KOBE — In a rare move, a 7-year-old boy diagnosed as suffering a gender identity disorder has been enrolled in a public elementary school as a girl, the local board of education said Thursday.
The public elementary school sit…
UKGayNews.org.uk
New York ? As people in more than 50 countries today mark the International Day against Homophobia, Human Rights Watch named to a ?hall of shame? five public officials who have actively promoted prejudice against lesbian, gay, bisex…
Boise Weekly – Shea Andersen
In the end, all it took was a quick vote by the Boise City Council.
But the routine matter of revising the city’s employee policy manual was enough to make Nikki Leonard cry, because for the first time in its history,…
247Gay.com
Tempe, AZ – Sigma Phi Beta Fraternity’s national board of directors enacted a policy at its May 14th meeting in Tucson which allows transgender students to join the Fraternity. The policy goes above and beyond any other known policy of a…
UKGayNews.org – IRIN UN humanitarian news and information service
Kathmandu, Nepal ? There?s no signboard outside the simple white-washed building at the end of the road ? and neighbours have little idea of who its occupants are.
But in this trad…
Spiked-Online.com – Josie Appleton
Why is everybody cheering transsexuals all the way to the operating theatre?
‘Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean / Not an inch nor a particle is vile, and none shall be l…
PinkNews.co.uk – Marc Shoffman
Iraqi gays are claiming success following the decision of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani to remove from his website a fatwa calling for the killing of homosexuals in the “worst, most severe way possible”.
The remova…