URNA Staff
For Immediate Release: Dated October 3, 2007
From: The National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC)
Contacts: Vanessa Edwards Foster; Houston, Texas
Chair, Ethan St. Pierre, Haverhill, MA
Contact Email: ntacmedia@aol.com
Contact Phone: 832-4…
DigitalJournal.com
A transvestite man caught dressed as a nurse in the female washroom at a Hong Kong public hospital has been jailed, a news report said Thursday.
Chung Kai-lun, 29, was found wearing women’s clothes and a surgical mask in the ho…
MetroWeekly.com – by Yusef Najafi
While presenting her testimony to the Montgomery County Council Tuesday, Oct. 2, against the passage of a bill that would protect transgender people by adding the words ”gender identity” to the county’s anti-discr…
Daily.Stanford.edu – By Shelby Martin
Transgender activist and author Leslie Feinberg spoke to a group of over 100 listeners in Pigott Hall last night about how LGBT struggles dovetail with the struggles against racism, poverty and imperialism.
F…
The banter back and forth between political organizations about ENDA is fueled with anger and he-said-she-said. It’s like fire! So, let them duke it out. But, what we do know is that further rifts will cause additional divide between organizations and …
DigitalSpy.co.uk – By Nick Levine, Entertainment Reporter
Ten Things You Never Knew About Eddie Izzard
Eddie Izzard is as strong-willed and tenacious as a three-legged Mountain Rescue dog. When his brother criticised his first Edinburgh show – “…
BeyondChron.org – by Tommi Avicolli-Mecca
“All of us or none of us.” That about sums up my feelings about the controversy over the exclusion of transgenders from the Congressional gay rights bill that would protect queers from discrimination in empl…
Sun-Sentinel.com – By Tobias Packer
“We don’t serve your kind here, get out.”
“I don’t rent to people like you.”
“Don’t even bother applying, your type isn’t welcome here.”
What would you do if you heard these words. Call a lawyer? Call the…
Regrets
Dear Jane,
I’m a glaring example of why it may be better not to tell your wife. Two weeks ago I went to another city to be with my friends from URNA for their monthly gathering. Sunday afternoon when I got home I thought my excuse was goi…
WWeek.com – By Paul Dirksen
[Drag]SissyBoy breaks up.
Over the course of the past three years, the members of Sissyboy, Portland’s most infamous punk-drag troupe, have become local legends for their monthly shows at Holocene, in which gender-fuc…