URNA Staff TheGrio.com – By Bonnita Spikes
Early on, l knew my son Michael was different. While my three other sons begged me to buy them G.I. Joe figurines and were obsessed with football, Michael preferred playing with My Little Pony and taking tap dance les…
TES.co.uk – By: Hannah Frankel
The average primary may have as many as three transgendered pupils. Avoiding the issue is the worst response, but as Hannah Frankel reports, there is much that schools can do to offer support at a deeply traumatic time…
Spiegel.de
A British transexual living in Germany is taking her health insurer to court after the company refused to pay for breast implants. She argues that the operation should be covered as part of gender reassignment procedures.
Sarah Jane Sm…
ArtInfo.com – By Sarah Douglas
London – Considering all the talk about recession aesthetics these days, cross-dressing 2003 Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry may have hit a nerve. Perry, resplendent in a colorful, milkmaid-style costume he designed …
NYPress.com – By Mark Peikert
Chalk it up to another instance of a fabulous title coming before the idea for a show, because the funniest thing about The Diary of Anne Frankenstein is its name. Another in a long line of attempts at reviving the anar…
BusinessWire.com
New York — (Business Wire) — LexisNexis, a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions, today announced it achieved the top rating of one hundred percent in the 2010 Corporate Equality Index and Best Places to Wo…
Se7enMagazine.com – Written by Ruth Collins
The recent gender debate surrounding South African athlete Caster Semenya has sparked off much media interest the world over, no less so than here in the UK.
However, the reaction in the press is not s…
TheAge.com.au – Raymond Gill
Vanessa Van Durme is a tall, 60-something woman of handsome looks and slightly imposing manner who comes across as an amalgam of Vanessa Redgrave and Germaine Greer, though somewhat warmer.
Like those two redoubtable …
HollywoodReporter.com – By Stephen Farber
Bottom Line: Lisbon drag-queen drama has moments that drag and others that soar.
This year’s New York Film Festival was criticized for highlighting a slate of esoteric, grimly pessimistic movies, and Portug…
CommonDreams.org
Contact: Equality California (EQCA)
Vaishalee Raja
(916) 284-9187 vaishalee@eqca.org
Darci Sears, Assemblymember Perez
916-319-2046 darci.sears@asm.ca.gov
Sacramento, Calif. – Yesterday Governor Schwarzenegger signed a bill…