colorlines.com – by Jamilah King
Less than a week after the ruthless videotaped beating of 22-year-old transgender woman Chrissy Lee Polis at a Baltimore-area McDonald’s, progressive and queer communities are grappling with a host of difficult quest…
hotelchatter.com – by juliab
Sin City: a town where, supposedly, everything goes. The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas: the newest, coolest hotel on the block which has advertised itself as having “just the right amount of wrong.” Ever since it unveiled it…
thefastertimes.com – Jacklyn Lacey
“I think that people should start tapping into all the different genders that live inside them. Because there are other genders outside of male and female., you know? And I think it’s just gauging what is stronges…
autostraddle.com – Rachel
One of the worst moments for any elected official is when they realize their administration accidentally allowed a marginalized group some basic rights of citizenship, and that they now have to go to all the time and troubl…
washingtonpost.com – By Elizabeth Flock
In February, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) released the first study of its kind on discrimination against transgender and gender non-conforming…
edmontonjournal.com – Carol D. Allan
Recently, a local radio station held a survey on whether or not people would like to have their child taught by a transgendered teacher.
The survey did not have a preamble explaining that transgendered persons…
thefastertimes.com – Jacklyn Lacey
“I think people should really just think outside the box, and I know it’s been said over and over again, but there’s truth to it. That there is a whole other reality other than what is around you.”
On a recent …
tmrzoo.com – By TMR Newswire
A Baltimore LGBT group, called Equality Maryland, confirmed that the victim of the Baltimore McDonalds’ beating is a transgender woman. Lisa Polyak, vice president of the board of directors for Equality Maryland commente…
voiceofsandiego.org – By Emily Alpert
Google “transgender teenager” and you’ll come up with dire statistics and horror stories of teens being harassed, homeless, even killed. Kids who are transgender, who live and identify as a different gender tha…
windycitymediagroup.com
The AIDS Foundation of Chicago’s Service Providers Council’s Transgender Conference will be Thursday, May 19, 2011, 9 a.m- 3:30 p.m., at the University Center, 525 S. State. “TransActions” is organized by AFC’s Service Provid…