URNA Staff November 7 – 9, 2008: EXOTICA Detroit 4, featuring SKIN TWO.
If you’ve ever been to Exotica, there’s no explanation needed. With an average attendance of over 4,500 guests, this is the largest fetish erotic expo in the Midwest, and one of the larges…
Hindu.com – Vaishna Roy
As Rose, the host of ‘Ippadikku Rose’, fights to realign rigid notions about gender and sexuality, it’s worth asking if we know what tolerance really means.
As Rose says: “What about my hobbies, my friends, my skills? Ther…
Time.com – By Ioan Grilo
The serenading mariachis, the vast pots of tacos and the drunken salsa dancing made the May wedding look like any other Mexican nuptial celebration. What was different, of course, were the genders of the happy couple. Her gl…
SouthernVoice.com – By Matt Schafer
Federal lawsuit alleges unconstitutional bias in state job firing
A transgender woman filed a federal lawsuit against the leaders of the Georgia General Assembly and Sewell Brumby, legislative council, in an ef…
TheVitalVoice.com – By Colin Murphy
Flourishing over four decades, the Miss Gay Missouri America (MGM) crown represents the finest in the art of female impersonation. Founded in 1973, it is the second oldest preliminary to the storied Miss Gay Amer…
Chaser.com
Married investment banker and secret transvestite Malcolm Penfold has declared himself “completely flummoxed” by recent sartorial trends. As male and female clothing options increasingly resemble one another, the bearded 54-year-old has f…
GayCityNews.com – By: David Noh
“Arias with a Twist,” which just ended its run at Here Arts Center, starred ultimate gender illusionist Joey Arias and was directed by genius puppeteer Basil Twist — and proved the hippest, funkiest, most creative e…
URNA Community:
Greetings. I have been remiss in writing my Ask Jane column for the site and for this I apologize. I talk about transition in the letter below; I’ve been through a transition of another sort during the past year: a heart-breaking d…
AlterNet.org – By Andrea Zanin, Sex Geek
There’s a vast difference between eroticizing trans people and exoticizing them in ways that scream “I’m clueless and disrespectful.”
I just finished reading M. Christian’s anthology, Transgender Erotica…
Gazette.net – by Janel Davis – Staff Writer
Opponents to appeal; Voters will decide whether to approve the antidiscrimination law in November
A Montgomery County Circuit Court judge is allowing county voters to decide if a county law banning disc…