URNA Staff TheStar.com – Hanna Rosin – Special to The Star
Gender reassignment is a way to deal with homosexuality in a place where gays are executed
The poster for Be Like Others, a documentary that aired on HBO this week, looks like a CD cover for a glam-…
Hindu.com – Staff Reporter
Bhubaneswar: People belonging to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups took out a rally here on Saturday, demanding their right to life and dignity.
Christened ‘Rainbow Pride Walk,’ the rally was attended by tho…
SamSpadeSF.com – Posted by SSSF
2009 will mark the 39th anniversary of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade. This year’s theme, “In Order to Form a More Perfect Union…,” was drawn from the Preamble to the Constitution.
Jokie Wil…
SoVo.com – By: Laura Douglas-Brown
Official Pride festival isn’t until Halloween, but plenty of events mark LGBT rights milestone
This year will be one of only a handful since 1971 that Atlanta hasn’t commemorated the anniversary of the Stonewall…
EdgeBoston.com – by Kilian Melloy – EDGE Staff Reporter
In keeping with his promise to work for full equality for GLBT Americans, President Obama’s administration is set to put protections for transgendered federal workers into place.
The protect…
Examiner.com – Matt Kailey – Denver Transgender Issues Examiner
Members of Congress have announced the introduction of a trans-inclusive federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), but Colorado is already there.
Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), al…
DemocracyNow.org – Mya Leilani Vazquez
Today is the fourth annual Trans Day of Action for Social and Economic Justice. A rally to the Stonewall Inn is planned for this afternoon to “let the world know, that on the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, the …
NYTimes.com – By Guy Trebay
It was impossible to look away from him – not when he was a dimpled child singer crowned with a pillowy Afro, not when he became a pop demigod uniformed in rhinestones and epaulets to command what were always referred to …
RantRave.com – Written by Rudi Stettner
A pair of Swedish parents have made an unprecedented decision in raising their child. They have decided to keep the child’s gender a secret, giving it the name “Pop” which in Swedish is apparently an androgyno…
ThisIsCornwall.co.uk
A dearth of women has led a small rural village to choose a carnival queen with a difference for its centrepiece annual procession – a 6ft-tall hairy-chested carpenter.
The high cost of traditional carnival queen dresses, acc…