URNA Staff WindyCityMediaGroup.com – by Jacob Anderson-Minshall
In a world where stories like Thomas Beatie’s pregnancy can capture world-wide attention overnight, it’s difficult to foretell what the biggest transgender stories of 2009 will be. But here are a …
TypicallySpanish.com – By h.b.
A Spanish transsexual says she will take her fight to spend more time with her son to the court in Strasbourg. It comes after, for the first time ever, the Spanish Constitutional Court has thrown out her appeal, despit…
SeattleTimes.NWSource.com – By Misha Berson – Seattle Times theater critic
When you think of men performing in female drag, you probably don’t conjure up someone like Miles in Jordan Harrison’s droll, ingratiating comedy “Act a Lady.”
Miles is a …
DNAIndia.com – Humaira Ansari
Mumbai: While the plight of the transgender community continues to be abysmal in the country, the recent public interest litigation (PIL) filed in the Supreme Court by a eunuch from Ajmer demanding recognition and accep…
TheOtherPaper.com – By Steph Greegor
While others resist, Columbus grants the transgender community an identity
Just two weeks ago, Cynthia Nicole was gunned down in the streets of Honduras—three shots to the chest, one to the head—because she wa…
CityPaper.com – By Geoffrey Himes
Through Feb. 22 at Everyman Theatre.
Doug Wright is a character in his own play, I Am My Own Wife. He is the New York playwright who travels to Berlin to interview Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, the real-life legendary…
CBS13.com – Reporting David Begnaud
Sacramento, Calif. (CBS13) – Sacramento Police are looking for two men who violently attacked a 20-year-old transgender woman last week, and the victim says it’s not the first time she’s been the target of a hate …
EmpireOnline.com
Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman, the directors of American Splendor, are set to adapt another blackly comic book, The Extra Man, and they’ve lined up a quality cast to do it.
The story, by Jonathan Ames, focuses on Louis…
WFN.org – Written by Staff Reports
The 2009 HRC Clergy Call for Justice and Equality is schedule May 4-5 in Washington, D.C.
The theme of the event, “Moving from Acceptance to Advocacy,” reflects the vision of a faith-based movement for GLBT equa…
News.BostonHerald.com – By Herald wire services
Patricia Araujo, a transgender model, was selected to close Rio De Janeiro’s fashion week. She hit the runway for the brand Complexo B on Friday, Perezhilton.com reports. A designer for the line, Beto …