URNA Staff WashBlade.com – Lou Chibbaro Jr
Election year politics, GOP filibuster cited as obstacles for ENDA, hate crimes
Gay rights advocates and gay-supportive members of Congress say they remain uncertain whether two important gay rights bills can clear…
Media.www.MichiganDaily.com – By Whitney Pow, Daily Fine Arts Editor
What do you think of when you think of gender? Female and male? Skirts and slacks? Uggs and Axe? Common conception draws a solid line between the “feminine” and the “masculine.” Bu…
MetroWeekly.com – by Yusef Najafi
In August 2007, D.C. announced the firing of three corrections officers for wrongfully placing a transgender inmate, who had female genitalia, in a male jail facility — ignoring her pleas to be moved throughout her…
NewsWire.ca – Mediacorp Canada Inc.
Toronto – CNW – Twenty five of Canada’s most widely recognized and successful companies are on an inaugural list of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers, an award that was launched today by Mediacorp Canada Inc., BMO…
DailyIndia.com – From ANI
Kolkata – The transgender community in West Bengal who have been ostracised have been given refuge in the ‘shelter homes’ that are being funded by the United Nation Development Program (UNDP).
The shelter homes have been…
NationMultiMedia.com – Jetsada Taesombat – The Nation
Castration of young boys is now a controversial issue being closely watched by socieyty as a whole and debated bydifferent groups.
On April 1, the Medical Council issued a ban on all such oper…
VueWeekly.com – Andrea Nemerson
Dear Readers:
I’ve written plenty about testosterone: the then-new research demonstrating that high testosterone does not make a male a winner as much as winning makes a male have high testosterone, for instance, and…
Martlet.ca – Spencer Anderson
One UVic student’s journey to live life outside the box – even if it’s built by society
I didn’t want to be different. I longed to be everything grownups wanted, so they would love me. I followed all their rules, tri…
WashingtonPost.com – By Jose Antonio Vargas – Washington Post Staff Writer
Strangers Create Memorials To a Gay Teen Named Larry
No one really dies on the Internet. A private life becomes public. Every life finds an audience. Look at Lawrence “Lar…
AP.Google.com – By Andrew Miga
Washington (AP) – Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is jumping into the middle of an uproar within the gay community whose causes he has long championed.
The Massachusetts Democrat is leading a push in the Senate for a federal…