When it hit the airwaves in England last year, “Little Britain” became an instant underground cult hit. The second season found the famed BBC comedy series a huge mainstream hit — so much so that at this past year’s “Live 8” concert, creators/stars Ma…
Daily Express – Malaysia – Kota Kinabalu
A Labuan man nearly lost his Nokia 7610 handphone to a pondan (transvestite) here on Monday.
The 29-year-old hair salon owner said he stopped his car in front of the court building to make a phone call aft…
PinkNews.co.uk – PinkNews.co.uk writer
Two US states have made historic strides in protecting the rights of transgender and gender nonconforming people.
Hawaii and Vermont, have in the past week introduced laws to include, protect and support tra…
NewKerala.com – Papri Sri Raman, Villupuram (Tamil Nadu)
India’s transvestites, who have faced ostracism for centuries, are discovering their identities and potentials and getting to know their rights and social duties in a tiny village festival her…
The Harvard Crimson – Abe J. Riesman – Crimson Staff Writer
Harvard?s ?gender identity? policy leads other schools to follow suit
The establishment of protections for transgender people in Harvard?s nondiscrimination policy has had effects on cam…
TheStar.com – Slinger
Not that she’s playing down the drag-queen aspect of her persona. She feels it’s particularly important because of what it means for the country as a whole ? an opportunity for every Canadian to drool over her scrumptious outfi…
The Age – Doug Anderson
Director Pedro Almodovar’s tender homage to motherhood.
Manuela works in the organ donor unit of a major Madrid hospital. A single mother who dotes on her 17-year-old son, Esteban (an aspiring writer yearning to know more …
Mainichi-msn.co.jp
To most Japanese, Takafumi Fujio — with cropped hair, thick arms and deep voice — is a typical, middle-aged salaryman. But until four years ago, when the food company worker started on a range of hormonal treatments, he was a wo…
cbs2.com
Police believe the fatal shooting of a transgender man Saturday was a robbery gone bad, rather than a hate crime, officials said.
Juan Jose Jacobo Preciado, 26, was known as Romina. She was shot at about 4:30 a.m. in the hallway of an ap…
Stuff.co.nz
When Sam Parker planned his own killing, it was a crime of passion. Tony Wall reports.
It’s late April, there’s a chill in the air, and amid the faceless sprawl of Auckland’s North Shore, a carefully planned killing is being carried o…