URNA Staff WashingtonBlade.com – Amy Cavanaugh
Writer, drag queen and goat farmer Josh Kilmer-Purcell releases his first novel
Not many people have gone from being a jet-setting drag queen to raising goats in upstate New York, but writer Josh Kilmer-Purcell…
Gawker.com
We told you earlier about British journalist and travel writer Jan Morris, who recently re-married her partner of almost sixty years. Before her sex change, Jan used to be James Morris—the first person to report the conquest of Mount Ever…
CampKC.com – by Jamie Tyroler
Proving identity can stymie all sorts, from adoptees to transgender people. Stricter ID laws would make the consequences more dire.
Most people probably give little thought to having an accurate driver’s license, pa…
ReadTheHook.com – by John Hong, MD
Transgender people are the bravest people in the world. (If Barbra Streisand ever makes a sequel to Funny Girl, she can add those lyrics to her song “People.”) In the USA, gender roles are narrowly defined and stri…
HuffingtonPost.com – Cyndi Lauper
On Saturday night, it hit me like a rushing train.
At an early leg of my True Colors concert tour this summer, I was in Washington DC preparing to go onstage at DAR Constitution Hall and on the very same stage th…
SFBayTimes.com – By Jacob Anderson-Minshall
Fifty-something classically- trained musician, Baby Dee – who just began releasing albums this decade – has an eclectic resume (including stints as go-go girl and circus freak), and an equally colorful col…
BayWindows.com – by Tynan Power – Bay Windows Contributor
Observers on Main Street in Northampton might have been surprised to see a Pride march passing by on June 7. After all, the city’s 27-year-old LGBT Pride march was held back on May 3. But thi…
NDTV.com – Lalit K Jha
(United Nations) An Indian eunuch Laxmi Narayan Tripathi is fighting for the rights and respect of the global transgender community during the ongoing United Nations high level meeting on AIDS.
After meeting a large number …
AllAfrica.com – Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC)
Press Release – The arrest of three sexual rights activists during a peaceful demonstration to raise awareness about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues shows the Ugandan governme…
BayWindows.com – by Ethan Jacobs – Staff Reporter
Despite the unrelenting 90-degree heat the Boston Center for the Arts Plaza was packed the evening of June 10 for the 15th annual Pridelights tree lighting ceremony, the kick-off to Pride in the Sout…