Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

Hi, it’s Jon, your Host. First off, I want to wish everyone Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!

I also wanted to let everyone know that I’m taking Monday’s off during December and some days off here and there. On weekends and when I’m taking a day …

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Trans[ition] in Iran

worldpolicy.org – By Rochelle Terman

Tehran, Iran – When Shadi Amin was growing up in pre-revolutionary Iran, she began experiencing sexual feelings toward other girls. “I thought there was something wrong with me,” she says. “I thought, maybe I sho…

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A closet within a closet

coloradoindependent.com – Susan Greene

Unique Taylor doesn’t officially exist.

That’s because the 37-year-old, convicted for a drug-manufacturing conspiracy, is trapped, quite literally, in two of the most extreme ways possible. Taylor lives in s…

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Teaching kids what it means to be transgender

bostonglobe.com – By Chris Edwards

This article is featured in the Dec. 7 issue of the Magazine.

“So, Shtine, what’s the latest with the book? Any updates?”

That was my cue. The answer to my sister Wendy’s question would serve as the opening t…

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Love in exile

theguardian.com – Mark Gevisser

“Gays Engage!”

This was the headline on the front page of Malawi’s Nation newspaper, on 28 December 2009, beneath a photograph of Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Stephen Monjeza, bleary and uncomfortable in matching his-an…

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