URNA Staff NY1.com – By: Amanda Farinacci
Being gay on Staten Island is easier now than it used to be, according to any one of the dozens of teens who come through the doors of the Staten Island Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Center.
Visitors say th…
NYTimes.com – By Jim Rutenberg
Washington – Lawyers for President Obama are quietly drafting first-of-their kind guidelines barring workplace discrimination against transgender federal employees, officials said Tuesday.
The guidelines will be in…
InsideHigherEd.com – By Scott McLemee
When the police conducted a routine raid on the Stonewall Inn, a bar in Greenwich Village, during the early hours of June 28, 1969, the drag queens did not go quietly. In grief at the death of Judy Garland one w…
Guardian.co.uk
Funny how things change. Behaviour that could, not so long ago, have landed you in jail can now get you a showbiz contract. Take men dressing in feminine attire: a lilac-hued striptease of the type offered in 1955 by drag queen Vicki …
EdgeBoston.com
Boston, MA – EDGE Publications, the world’s largest Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) news and entertainment network, today announced that William Kapfer has joined the company as its new Executive Vice President of Commun…
WindyCityMediaGroup.com
Jade, 25, is a professional female impersonator who has performed in many clubs throughout Chicago and Detroit – and current is featured at the local restaurant Sangria. Jade has been thrust into the national spotlight thanks…
HRW.org
(New York) – The arrests of 67 men in Riyadh on June 13, 2009, reportedly for wearing women’s clothing, violate basic human rights to privacy and freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on Saudi author…
NewsInfo.Inquirer.net – By Cynthia Balana – Philippine Daily Inquirer
Manila, Philippines – They pose as prostitutes, drug their clients and then rob them.
This was how Vice President Noli de Castro on Tuesday described six supposedly “transgende…
State.gov
Dean Acheson Auditorium – Washington, DC
Thank you very much, John, and thank you, Michelle, and we won’t say who was actually twisting her arm. You know, Richard Holbrooke was with her when she fell, as you all know. (Laughter.) But I …
WickedLocal.com
Arlington, Mass. – The Randy Roberts Show is a live, multi-media tribute to some of the world’s most loved performers. Randy’s uncanny impersonations of Joan Rivers, Cher and Bette Midler have kept him in the spotlight for the past 2…