URNA Staff WindyCityMediaGroup – by Charlsie Dewey
Homeless LGBT youth face increased difficulties compared to their heterosexual counterparts both on the streets and within the shelter system, according to a study the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force repor…
Charlotte.com – GERRY HOSTETLER
You could say that when his heart stopped beating not one, but two people died. And you wouldn’t be too far from wrong.
Clay Edwin Lambert of Charlotte died Oct. 14 of an apparent heart attack. Showgirl Tracy Morga…
StarTribune.com – By Nina Petersen-perlman, Star Tribune
Bills aim to extend federal protection from hate crimes, and workplace discrimination to GLBT people, but some leaders don’t want transgenders included.
Proposals some call the most sweepin…
What Crossdressers Want to Know Part 2: Am I Gay?
Welcome back to my series on the most common questions I hear from crossdressers. Now keep in mind, folks, that though I’m a highly qualified psychiatrist/crossdresser, I am Alice Novic, after all, a…
SameSame.com.au – Tracy
Chanel is a transsexual sex worker and was just nineteen when she began working the streets. Unlike most young people, Chanel’s worries were not focused on fashion or what she was planning to do on the weekend. Instead, she w…
Boston.com – By Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff
MassEquality, the gay-marriage advocacy coalition, created one of the most effective political campaigns Massachusetts has ever seen, leading a battle that attracted national attention and culminated in a…
UK.Reuters.com
Tokyo (Reuters) – Japan’s Supreme Court has denied pleas from two people with gender identity disorders to change their sex in government household records, their legal adviser said on Monday.
Masami Osako, 51, and Sayaka Morimura,…
MDN.Mainichi.jp
The Supreme Court has quashed the bid by two western Japan transsexuals to have their genders changed on their official family registers, court officials said Monday.
The nation’s top court turned down the applications from Sayaka…
Tonight.co.za – By Zane Henry
Odidi Mfenyana plays Detective Ntando Mqomboti, an openly gay black detective in the lead role of SABC1’s crime drama Interrogation Room. Try getting that pilot greenlit 20 years ago…
“It’s been challenging,” Mfenyan…
UKGayNews.org.uk
Kampala – A Uganda chapter of International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) has been launched in Uganda following a successful meeting attended by over 100 gay men and women, transgender people, human rights activists and other suppo…