URNA Staff SFGate.com – Sandip Roy, Special to The Chronicle
“I like to copy the Bollywood actresses,” Queen Harish says with a chuckle. “But not the new kinds with the very short, short clothes.” She prefers the colorful, traditional full skirts of her native…
PrescottDailyCourier.com – By Ken Hedler, The Daily Courier
Prescott – Frankie Reynolds, the co-founder and volunteer executive director of the Prescott Pride Center, joked about her volunteer work on behalf of the community center.
“After eight …
TimesOnline.co.uk – Catherine Bruton
When children are adamant that they are trapped in the wrong body, is it ethical to offer them hormone treatment? A concerned mother and a Dutch psychologist believe the answer is ‘yes’
Last year Sharon Lane* …
OutcomeBuffalo.com
Buffalo – City of Buffalo gay, lesbian bisexual and transsexual employees will now have access to the same health care benefits that had only been available to heterosexual city workers.
The most recently approved labor pact be…
NewIndPress.com – Express News Service
Salem: Krishnan alias Divya is a transgender by nature and by choice.
Her struggle to fulfil her dream of joining teachers training was realized on Saturday. Divya had to battle on several fronts, especially…
EdgeBoston.com – by Ethan Jacobs – Bay Windows
At first glance the murder trial of Roxbury gang member Sam Smith, known as “Fat Sam” according to press reports, seems to have little to do with transgender civil rights. In June 2001 a jury convicted …
News.SBS.com.au – AAP/SBS
A devil, a drag queen and a pink alien are opposing Pope Benedict XVI’s stand against condoms, homosexuality and abortion.
They were part of a colourful crowd that assembled at Taylor Square in east Sydney’s Darlinghurst…
TheStar.com – By FASLIKA DAS
Kuala Lumpur: The Government’s offer of welfare aid to homosexuals should be extended to the Mak Nyah (transgender) instead.
Pink Triangle Foundation programme director Raymond Tai said most homosexuals were “well-to-…
Metro.co.uk – Tina Jackson
by Mehmet Murat Somer (Serpents Tail, £7.99)
A serial killer is on the loose, bumping off ladies of the night. So far, so routine – but what sets Mehmet Murat Somer’s stylish pulp thriller The Prophet Murders apart is i…
EarthTimes.org – Author : The Human Rights Campaign – Press Release
San Francisco – PRNewswire-USNewswire – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender civil rights organization, today announced tha…