URNA Staff CJNews.com – By Sheri Shefa, Staff Reporter
Toronto – This year’s Gay Pride Week in Toronto attracted more than one million people, and among those who celebrated the event was a small student group representing Jewish members of the gay communi…
Bloomberg.com – Review by John Simon
(Bloomberg) – The National Theatre of Scotland’s production of “The Bacchae” of Euripides lands at the Rose Theater in New York with a thud.
Opening the Lincoln Center Festival, it is eminent Scottish playwrig…
WashingtonPost.com – By Ann E. Marimow – Washington Post Staff Writer
Gay and transgender rights advocates said today that Montgomery County’s Board of Elections miscalculated the number of signatures required to challenge a law that prohibits discr…
Newsday.com – By Colleen Long – Associated Press Writer
New York – A priest who runs a shelter specializing in outreach to homeless transgender youths was beaten with construction equipment and paint cans by a group of teenagers in a possible hate…
XTra.ca – Krishna Rau
Toronto MDs could rewrite definitions for pyschiatric association’s mental health guide
The appointment of two Toronto doctors to a committee revising medical definitions of gender identity has infuriated trans people across…
TimesOfIndia.IndiaTimes.com – Ajitha Karthikeyan, TNN
Chennai: Young Karpaga, who makes her debut as a heroine in a Tamil film, is understandably nervous. She is busy rehearsing her lines and learning the nuances in the art of make-up, as the offer …
PalmCenter.org – Press Contact: Nathaniel Frank, Senior Research Fellow, The Palm Center, University of California, Santa Barbara
Amidst Inaction by Politicians, Former Pentagon Brass Call for Repeal
Santa Barbara, CA – A new study released today…
Slate.com – By William Saletan
It’s a girl!
Well, it’s a girl for now. Thomas Beatie, the “pregnant man,” has given birth. Beatie used to be a girl, too. Then he decided to become a man. Which he is now. Sort of.
We like to think there are two…
Time.com – By Hannah Beech
Life can be complicated enough for members of the transgender community – the last thing they need is to have to choose between two bathroom doors: male or female. Fortunately for students at the Kampang high school in rur…
HuffingtonPost.com – Steve Ralls
Could this be the year that every American family sees itself reflected in the platform of a major political party? And if so, what would an all-inclusive set of ideals mean for America’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and t…