URNA Staff Guardian.co.uk – Alex Needham – The Guardian
Seated in a semi-swanky London hotel bar, the man opposite is a benign and playful presence, joshing that he’d like a gin and tonic (despite it being 11.30am), spying Cameron Diaz on the front of InStyle …
Xtra.ca – Aleisha Cuff
Vancouver – I’ll admit I winced when someone handed me a copy of the Dec 4 edition of Xtra West. Two men in bed, not exactly groundbreaking news for an LGBT paper.
Then I saw the title of the piece splashed across the phot…
IndyStar.com – By Francesca Jarosz
Taysia Elzy and Michael Hunt had offered their Northside house as a refuge for an acquaintance from Fort Wayne who was having problems at home.
Police arrested that acquaintance, Christopher L. Conwell, 20, on W…
BLogs.MiamiNewTimes.com – Kyle Munzenrieder
The naked body of Amanda Lepore, the world’s self proclaimed #1 transsexual, is about as good of a metaphor for change as any so it was suiting that the first sight of 2009 that the crowd at The Raleigh’s …
SFBayTimes.com – By Rex Wockner
More than half of the world’s remaining bans on gay sex are relics of British colonial rule, Human Rights Watch said in a report published Dec. 17. In a statement, the group “urged governments everywhere to affirm int…
Forward.com – By Rebecca Spence
Los Angeles – When Elliot Kukla, a Reform rabbi, came out as transgender six months before his ordination in 2006, he never imagined how openly the Jewish community would be addressing transgender issues just three ye…
BellinghamHerald.com
Drag queen’s weekly show at Rumors sings song of unity and community
Drag queen Betty Desire has been performing “The Betty Desire Show” at Rumors Cabaret in Bellingham every Wednesday night for more than 12 years, canceling …
WindyCityMediaGroup.com – by Jacob Anderson-Minshall
Between the collapse of the economy, California’s same-sex marriage flip-flops and Obama’s election, it took a pregnant man to capture mainstream press’ attention. But while media outlets around t…
UKGayNews.org.uk
London – Broken Rainbow, the UK’s sole LGBT domestic violence telephone helpline, is surprised and disappointed that lesbians, gays and transgender people are not included in the Conservative plans to tackle domestic violence.
L…
StarObserver.com.au – Katherine Cumings
When I decided to transition I didn’t have the option of melting into society, which is what a lot of transgender people do. I had a family to support, and responsibilities to honour. Since I couldn’t disappea…