URNA Staff MyEyeWitnessNews.com – Reported by: Dana Rebik
Memphis, TN — Three transgender people have been shot in the city of Memphis in the last six months and advocates are speaking out about the violence.
Leeneshia Edwards was shot in the face last wee…
MarinIJ.com – Paul Liberatore
Marin anthropologist and author Katrina Karkazis began researching her new book, “Fixing Sex,” a decade ago, when she was working on her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University.
Now senior research scholar at St…
AllAboutJazz.com – St. Louis Jazz Notes
When the Cabaret at Savor closed in late June, impresario Jim Dolan vowed that he’d be back presenting shows before long. True to his word, Dolan has formed a new not-for-profit organization called Cabaret St….
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…
HuffingtonPost.com – Bil Browning
My post, “Transgender woman and her boyfriend murdered in Indianapolis,” has created quite a bit of conversation – both on the Bilerico Project and in certain circles in Indiana. I’ve just finished an interview with…
News.NewAmericanMedia.org – New America Media, News Report, Viji Sundaram,
San Francisco – Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth whose families have rejected them because of their sexual orientation are at far greater risk for mental and phy…
PalmBeachPost.com – By Leslie Gray Streeter – Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
All Katelynn Cusanelli was trying to do was give a friend a ride to Miami.
But that ride began a journey that continued on to a reality show in New York City and, if Cusan…
DallasVoice.com – By John Wright – News Editor
In the wake of Jennifer Gale’s death in Austin last week, LGBT advocates in Texas are turning their attention to the issue of transgender homelessness.
Gale, 47, a homeless transgender woman and pere…
SFBG.com – By Meghann Myers
It’s been 60 years since the United Nations General Assembly issued the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, affirming the inherent dignity and inalienable rights of all people. Yet prisoners are often denied the most b…
BayWindows.com – by Ethan Jacobs – Staff Reporter
No commitment from Auerbach on how agency will act in budget crisis
Members of the Massachusetts Commission on GLBT Youth questioned John Auerbach, director of the state Department of Public Healt…