URNA Staff StarObserver.com.au – Author: Staff Writers
Chelsey Mikimoto, a transgender showgirl from Melbourne, was crowned Miss Transsexual Australia 2010 in the country’s first-ever beauty pageant for transsexuals and transgenders, held at Melbourne’s Bar 36…
MercuryNews.com – By Elena Becatoros – Associated Press Writer
Rawalpindi, Pakistan – Taunted at home, Sanhya ran away at age 12, searching for acceptance as she sees herself – neither male nor female, but a member of a third gender.
Pakistan’s t…
Advocate.com – By Kerry Eleveld
This week Adm. Mike Mullen shouldered a burden and created an opening for the fair treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans that, quite frankly, no other leader in the country could possibly have…
NYTimes.com – By Penelope Green
Near dusk on a recent winter Sunday, in a glossy and compact one-bedroom in Hell’s Kitchen, Michael Lisbona was drying the toe box of a Louis-style mule with a blow dryer. The upper part of the half-made shoe, which …
NewHavenAdvocate.com – By Donald Brown
He stands alone on stage in an outfit that looks like the sad remains of a clown’s party favors, a colorful motley that combines deflated balloons, a fright wig, glitter facepaint, long legs in mismatched neon …
blogs.PhoenixNewTimes.com – By Ray Stern in Diverse City
In the late 1960s, Millie C. Bloodworth was a city boy from Detroit who didn’t like guns, the Army, snakes on field trips, or the looming prospect of getting shipped off to Vietnam.
What he…
BayWindows.com – by Hannah Clay Wareham – Staff Reporter
Varla Jean Merman, the fictional creation of actor Jeffrey Roberson and the purported love child of Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman, will be descending upon Boston in all her glory for a spec…
WindyCityMediaGroup.com – by Tony Peregrin
Robert Cyon Flare is famous for setting the hearts of Boystown bar patrons aflame ( pun intended ) with an infectious, positive energy and vibrant, Technicolor costumes.
In fact, the appeal of Flare ( w…
Campaign.ConstantContact.com – NCTE
In a closely-watched case, the United States Tax Court overwhelmingly ruled on Tuesday in O’Donnabhain v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue that a transgender woman’s medical expenses for hormone therapy and sex re…
NYTimes.com – By The Associated Press
Boston (AP) — A woman who battled the IRS over a tax deduction for the costs of her sex-change operation says she feels like she won a victory for all transgender people.
Rhiannon O’Donnabhain (oh-DON’-oh-vi…