URNA Staff 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…
MiamiHerald.TypePad.com – By Steve Rothaus
Transgender activists say they’re hopeful that Chastity Bono’s very public gender transition will generate widespread discussion and raise awareness of gender identity issues.
Bono, 40 – the only child o…
TheSword.com – Written by jay
This month’s Pride fest in San Francisco will conclude with Juanita MORE!’s fifth annual afterparty at Bambuddha Lounge, often called out (especially when it’s blessed with an actually warm, sunny day) as the best SF pa…
SanDiego.com – By Jennifer Chung Klam
When upstart Cygnet Theatre raised the curtain in 2003 on a small strip mall theater near SDSU, its first show was “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” As a fitting bookend, it is also the last on the Rolando stage, as …
EBAR.com – by Dan Aiello
In the eight months since fishermen found the body of a young transgender woman along the banks of Sacramento’s American River, police have remained unable to determine whether the death was a homicide.
Sacramento police …
EPGN.com – by Jen Colletta
The eighth-annual Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference kicked off this week, with three days full of workshops, seminars, film screenings and activities meant to educate and empower the transgender community and its suppor…
MetroActive.com – By Richard von Busack
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“We can always fool a foreigner,” is supposedly a common Chinese saying. When the foreigner is ready to be deluded, as is Jeremy Irons’ Gallimard in M. Butterfly, directo…
KoreaTimes.co.kr – By Lee Hyo-won – Staff Reporter
At the turn of the new millennium, Harisu created a sensation as Korea’s first transgender-transsexual entertainer. People were shocked to notice her Adams apple – though it was actually digitally r…