URNA Staff SoVo.com – By: Dyana Bagby
It was a long car ride for Asha Leong one afternoon when her mother picked her up from high school in Charleston, W.Va., some 14 years ago. A senior at the time, Leong said the typically 30-minute ride seemed interminable …
GayLesbianTimes.com – Associated Press
Philadelphia (AP) – Hundreds of gay-rights demonstrators marched through the streets of the city’s historic center on Sunday carrying rainbow-colored flags and signs calling for equal rights in marriage, in the…
Xtra.ca – Kaj Hasselriis
Manitoba’s NDP government refused a proposal to fully fund sex reassignment surgeries for trans people, Xtra.ca has learned. The policy would have brought the province in line with British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec by cov…
Xtra.ca – Patty Comeau
Helen Hok-Sze Leung set out to examine Hong Kong’s gay and lesbian cinema, only to find that what she was looking for didn’t exist.
“I discovered that I couldn’t find the kind of expected images that I was used to,” she adm…
TheDailyAztec.com – Amy Ebersole, Stafff Writer
Two orange bottles: one full of estrogen and the other a testosterone blocker, sit next to a miniature dragon figurine. Both exist in real and virtual reality.
What do dragons, hormone therapy pills…
FloridaBlade.com – By Dmitry Rashnitsov
The owner of one of South Florida’s only transgender bars was found dead in his Hallandale Beach home of an accidental drug overdose in late March, according to police reports filed this week.
60-year-old S…
BayWindows.com – by Hannah Clay Wareham – Contributing Writer
“We’re here, we’re queer – our parents think we’re studying!”
Such chants and cheers echoed throughout Main Street in Northampton during the student-led parade that kicked off the cit…
Milwaukee.Decider.com – By DJ Hostettler
A few years ago, local musician and experimental filmmaker Kyle Altadonna surprised his friends with the news that he was transgender. Since then, Ashley Altadonna has been undergoing treatments and therapy t…
Telegraph.co.uk – By Alastair Jamieson
The 19-year-old actor has enjoyed dinner and nights out with the New York-based drag queen, who impersonates Dolly Parton and Alanis Morissette.
They dined together on Sunday and were pictured arm in arm at…
SMH.com.au – Richard Hill
Bonnie Eick (Letters, May 5) presents a view on gender dysphoria disturbingly reminiscent of earlier attitudes towards homosexuality. Pursuing it as a disorder rather than simply a difference, psychiatrists sought to treat …