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Brian Viglione Talks About The Dresden Dolls’ Message to Its Gay Fans
Having spent nearly two years solid on the road since the release of their second album “Yes, Virginia,” including tours with Panic! at the Disco, the True Col…
GayWired.com – By Jacob Anderson-Minshall
“I used to dress up in my mother’s clothes every chance I got,” recalls Michael D. Silverman, executive director of Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF). “Her makeup bag was my favorite toy. I’…
ThaiIndian.com – By Ayyappa Prasad
Chennai (IANS) Karpaka and Revathi, who are transgenders in real life, will rewrite cinema history by playing ‘female’ leads in the forthcoming Tamil films “Paal” and “Thenavattu”. While Karpaka features as the cen…
TheWIP.net – by Jessica Mosby
Last year Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told an audience at Columbia University, “In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals, like in your country.” His characteristically outrageous comment was met with laughter and bo…
SeattleTimes.NWSource.com – By Marc Ramirez – Seattle Times staff reporter
Raeann Hewitt threw on a dress and drove 400 miles last weekend to Washington’s Olympic Peninsula with an ear-to-ear smile, starting a journey toward the person she feels she…
BurlingtonFreePress.com – By Myra Mathis-Flynn, Free Press Staff Writer
RuPaul, a well-known American drag queen once said: “I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear 7-inch heels, 4-foot wigs and skintight dresses?”
He h…
TheStar.com – Rob Ferguson – Queen’s Park Bureau
Smitherman says surgery for `very serious medical condition’ will cost health plan $200,000 yearly
The small number of Ontarians hoping for sex-change operations will soon see the surgery covered b…
GayCityNews.com – By: Duncan Osborne
Transgender and gay activists are objecting to some members of an American Psychiatric Association (APA) committee that will weigh changes to the definition of gender identity disorder (GID), a diagnosis that a…
CanadaEast.com – Andy Blatchford, The Canadian Press
Montreal – Cynthia Tebbetts’s fingers fidgeted on the steering wheel during the four-hour drive from New Hampshire to Montreal.
As his blue Chevy wound its way through New England’s mountainous…
AmericanChronicle.com – Dave Muskera, M.A.
A recent NPR production on Children´s Health by Alix Spiegel dealt with the gender identity disorder sometimes known as transgenderism – a situation where an individual has the physical body of one sex (ma…