URNA Staff Philly.com – By Chuck Darrow – Philadelphia Daily News
Atlantic City – A byproduct of my many years in the newspaper racket is that I have occasionally found myself in unexpected situations.
There was the time I was publicly – and sarcastically -…
PressOfAtlanticCity.com – By Jeanne Donohue, For At The Shore
Spoof of Miss America Pageant returns to Atlantic City
Here she comes – again. A five-year hiatus hasn’t dulled enthusiasm for the Miss’d America Pageant. In fact, excitement is mounti…
Alibi.com – By Joni Kay Rose
Tall and slim with natural blond hair, the young lady walking by us exuded a confidence that belied the struggles she must have gone through to be where she was. I gestured toward her. “No matter what I do, I’ll never be…
IPSNews.net – By Dalia Acosta
Havana (IPS) – It was as if she had only closed her eyes for a moment. When Wendy Iriepa came round after surgery over a year ago, she tried to get up as if nothing had happened, but a nurse gently pushed her back into …
AZCentral.com – by John Stanley – The Arizona Republic
The first Desperado Gay and Lesbian Film Festival showcases nearly a dozen movies, ranging from light-hearted shorts to full-length dramas. And a documentary, “Amancio – Two Faces on a Tombstone…
EdgeBoston.com – by Peter Cassels – EDGE Contributor
More than 250 transgender Bay Staters and their allies were on Beacon Hill on Jan. 21 to push for passage of a bill to ban gender-based discrimination.
The Massachusetts Transgender Political C…
JanuaryMagazine.com – Posted by Sue Bursztynski
Eighteen-year-old Skye is a member of an all-girl punk rock band. Skye has never felt like a girl. Inside, (s)he is Finn, a boy. Making the decision to let Finn be outside as well as in involves a lot …
BreakingNews.IOL.ie
The sentence imposed on a young homeless man for stabbing a transvestite in the neck was not unduly lenient, the Court of Criminal Appeal held yesterday.
In turning down the State’s appeal against leniency of sentence, the CC…
EBAR.com – by Matthew S. Bajko
At its meeting Tuesday night (January 26) the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club is expected to elect its first pair of co-presidents as well as the first transgender woman to lead the progressive queer political group.
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MetroWeekly.com – Posted by duy
“Regardless of how one may feel about the policy in question, there is no excuse for referring to other human beings as ‘it.'”
Jim Burton, Supervisor for Loudoun County, VA, taking to task his fellow Supervisor, Eu…