URNA Staff UVM.edu – Author: Lee Ann Cox
A speaker at the 2009 LGBTQA rainbow awards ceremony, Owen Daniel-McCarter ’04 is founder of the Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois. Among it’s goals: “all the tools we need to be fabulous, empowered and saf…
PrideSource.com – Project Healthy Living
On Saturday, May 9, Affirmations, the LGBT community center in Ferndale, will host its seventh annual health fair as a Project Healthy Living site. The free event will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and is open …
BalticTimes.com – By Laima Vaiga
Vilnius – In case you thought you knew Lithuania as an all-conservative country full of macho men, shy girls, and pride intolerance, think again. “Ladyfest Vilnius,” an alternative women’s culture festival that kicke…
Advocate.com – By Amita Parashar
Virginia Prince, a pioneer of the cross-dressing community and longtime activist for transgender rights, died on Saturday, May 2. She was 96 years old.
Prince’s philosophies attracted fierce criticism, especially …
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 …
CityPages.com – By John Ervin
All four Thursdays in May, the 7th St. Entry will be taken over by legendary transgender punk-glam band All the Pretty Horses. Their founder, Venus DeMars, and her current lineup will be celebrating 15 years of being he…
SXNews.e-p.net.au – Written by Garret Bithell
Despite the tough economic times, the Midnight Shift is charging on with a varied entertainment program, much to the delight of punters and performers alike.
As the lights dim, a cacophony of whistle…
CommonDreams.org – EqualityMaine
Augusta, Maine – The momentum continues to build in favor of legislation granting marriage equality to same-sex couples in Maine. In the halls of the State House on Tuesday, leaders of the coalition backing the bill …
PublicService.co.uk – Richard Kenyon
Public bodies should make it a priority to familiarise themselves with the contents of the new Equality Bill, say Richard Kenyon and Louise Fernandes-Owen
After promising the biggest shake up in discrimination…
Feministing.com – By Julia Serano
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has been called the “bible of mental illness” because it lists and defines all of the “official” psychiatric diagnoses according to the American Psychi…