URNA Staff CityRoom.blogs.NYTimes.com – Chang W. Lee – The New York Times
Terry Cummings, who lives in Montclair, N.J., is a lawyer with a firm in New York City. After a heart problem in 2006, she decided to face her lifelong gender dysphoria, a psychological …
CNN.com – By Donna Rose – Special to CNN
(CNN) — It was only a matter of time. The real-life drama of being transsexual has come to Hollywood. Chastity Bono, the impossibly cute little blond girl who, for many of my generation, remains frozen in …
DNAIndia.com – D Ram Raj – DNA
Chennai: Sexual minorities hardly ever have it easy. Marginalised by the regular Joes and Janes, they live along the fringes of society. But there is light at the end of their despair-ridden tunnel, at least in Tamil N…
PostCrescent.com – John Lee – Post Crescent Staff Writer
Sierra D. Broussard, 28, of Appleton, filed a civil suit against Park Central, a downtown Appleton nightclub, claiming she was denied admission June 21 because she is black and a transsexual.
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LifeSiteNews.com – By Hilary White
Westminster (LifeSiteNews.com ) – In testimony to the Parliamentary committee studying the upcoming Equality Act, a “transgendered” rights advocate said that wherever a person may be on the “gender reassignment spe…
BaltimoreSun.com – By Chris Kaltenbach
Steve Yeager appears caught off-guard when asked if he set out to earn a reputation as a filmmaker focusing on Baltimore’s marginalized. The thought, it seems, has never really occurred to him.
And yet, it’s…
HRW.org
Longtime Rights Defender and Researcher Receive 2009 Awards
The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Human Rights Watch today will honor Michaela Clayton, a Namibian lawyer and activist, as the recipient of the 2009 International Award for…
HonoluluAdvertiser.com – By Paula Rath – Advertiser Staff Writer
The Miss Universal ShowQueen pageant, arguably Hawai’i’s premier drag queen showcase, always provides an amazing spectacle.
Last year, it brought the house down when Coco Chandelier…
IrishTimes.com – Genevieve Carbery
A film telling the true story of an Irish transgender person was presented with a human rights film award in Dublin last night.
American actor and film-maker Rebecca Miller was among the well-known film world fi…
UVM.edu – Author: Jeffrey R. Wakefield
In addition to buying books, making last minute changes to his course schedule, and stocking up on three-ring binders, senior art history major Davin Sokup’s pre-semester to-do list always included one more tas…