URNA Staff 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…
CampKC.com – by Jamie Tyroler
Donna Ross came out very publicly in Portland, Ore., before moving to Kansas City a few years ago. In April, she was in the news for her testimony to Kansas City’s Transportation and Infrastructure Committee of City Co…
NewIndPress.com – Sharadha Narayanan
In what has emerged as a sudden trend, one of the most neglected communities of society- the transgenders, seem to be setting foot almost everywhere from television anchoring to arts. This time, it’s a new film s…
WindyCityMediaGroup.com – by Yasmin Nair
Recent historical work reveals that Stonewall was not a singular moment of queer insurgency and that the mid-to-late 1960s was an era of queer radical political potential. According to Susan Stryker, professo…
PittsburghLive.com – By William Loeffler – Tribune-Review
Imagine an artist who paints large-scale historic epics such as the coronation of Napoleon or the armies of Alexander the Great riding into Egypt. Now imagine he adds a few extras to the lan…
PalmBeachPost.com – By Larry Keller – Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
West Palm Beach – Former female impersonator Eulis “Robbie” Campbell took a plea deal that got him a 40-year prison sentence on Wednesday for stabbing and slashing a man to death 56 …
Feministe.us – Posted by: Holly
“I didn’t know what to do. My own dad was so tough on us – always saying things like “Be a Man!”
My father’s voice cracks with grief as he continues. “I thought I had to – like he used to say – whup the sissy out …
IsraelENews.com – By: Silow-Carroll, Andrew
My family and I were living in Israel in 1998, when the country celebrated its 50th anniversary.
That same year, Israel had an entry in the Eurovision Song Contest, the wildly popular television pagean…
Salon.com – By James Hannaham
Want to watch tough female rappers shake their booties in a lesbian bar? VH1’s “Miss Rap Supreme” proves no one is immune to reality TV’s degradations.
About four years ago, a sardonic group of hip-hop writers of col…