URNA Staff PinkNews.co.uk – By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk
Freedom of assembly, freedom of expression and the right to life, liberty and security are often not applied to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons, a Council of Europe commissioner…
BurlingtonFreePress.com
The University of Vermont will be hosting the sixth annual Translating Identity Conference at the Davis Center.
The conference is a free, student-run, non-profit conference focusing on transgender communities and gender id…
Feministing.com – Posted by Ann
I know we’re all deeply, deeply caught up in the presidential race, but I want to take a moment and highlight the fact that a lot of ballot measures are going to be voted on tomorrow, too. Most are anti-gay, anti-choi…
SundayGazetteMail.com – Sandy Wells – Staff writer
Charlestown, W.Va. — The queen is dead. The drag queen, that is.
Bridget Nickles, aka Anthony Jarrell, died last week of weariness after an illustrious career as a female impersonator. She was 2…
SMH.com.au – Dylan Welch
The drugs case against entertainer Todd McKenney has been dropped by police during a brief court hearing today.
McKenney, a radio, television and stage personality, was due to have his case heard this week, but the prosec…
NYTimes.com – By Kate Rood
My twin brother, Eli, is jealous of sea horses. They are the only animal species in which the male gives birth to the offspring. Male sea horses have brood pouches where the female deposits her eggs. The eggs then hatch in…
BangkokPost.com – Maxmilian Wechsler
With its skilled cosmetic surgeons and low prices, Thailand has become a mecca for people wanting to improve on nature and throw off the signs of ageing.
Aesthetic, or cosmetic, surgery has become very big bus…
SFist.com – By SFistRichard
Timecapsule: October 31, 1963
On Halloween night, the “Black Cat Cafe” — that notorious, flamboyant and most historically significant of San Francisco’s gay nightspots, held a final celebration before closing down for…
Guardian.co.uk – Polly Vernon – The Observer
Between 1999 and 2005, Savannah Knoop lived an audacious double life as Jeremiah ‘Terminator’ LeRoy – a sex-change Aids sufferer whose stories, based around his white-trash upbringing and life on the stre…
EdgeBoston.com
For the last few decades, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation has been at the forefront of improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Americans.
Our commitment to equality extends to the workplace, as we …