URNA Staff Xtra.ca – Marcus McCann
Ontario Votes 2007 – Who you gonna pick?
Capital Xtra sat down with four candidates aiming to win the provincial riding of Ottawa Centre in next month’s election. Check out what they had to say about queer issues.
Wil…
Media.www.SpectatorNews.com – Ruth Lane
Encourages student in identifying, coping during changes
A rare event has occurred in the area of gender studies – the publication of “The Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman On Sexism and The Scapegoating o…
Arts.Guardian.co.uk
Lou Reed sang about her and Andy Warhol made her a superstar. As Holly Woodlawn heads for Britain, John Patterson meets a drag queen legend
“Holly came from Miami F-L-A,
Hitchhiked her way across the USA,
Plucked her eyebro…
ThinkSpain.com – By thinkSPAIN
A corporal who was denied permission to take the regulation fifteen-day leave of absence to marry his transsexual sweetheart was told by his commanding officer, a Spanish Navy captain: “In Franco’s day, you’d already …
WCFCourier.com – By Mary Stegmeir – Courier Staff Writer
Waverly – Almost nine years ago, a bicyclist pedaling along a Laramie, Wyo. road discovered 21-year-old Matthew Shepard tied to a split-rail fence.
The college student was beaten so badly t…
News.BBC.co.uk – By Daniel Schweimler – BBC News, Buenos Aires
A court in the central Argentine province of Cordoba has for the first time agreed that a sex change operation can be carried out on a minor.
The case concerns a 17-year-old male ca…
SFGate.com – Robert Hurwitt
Given another decade, it may have to start lying about its age. Theatre Rhinoceros, San Francisco and the nation’s “longest-running professional queer theater company,” turns 30 this season. Founded in 1977 by Allan Estes…
SLTrib.com – Rebecca Walsh
I don’t know about the rest of you girls, but I’m more uncomfortable with the idea of peeing next to a man who believes he’s a man than peeing next to a man who believes he’s a woman.
That’s just me. Utah Transit Author…
PinkNews.co.uk – Georgina Roberts
American transsexual actress Candis Cayne will feature in the new U.S. prime time drama Dirty Sexy Money.
Cayne a well-known performer in New York City will play Carmelita, the transsexual lover of married Senato…
Reuters.com – By Miral Fahmy
Singapore (Reuters Life!) – At the age of 10, Leonard Lo was determined to become a woman.
Now 22 years later, Singaporean transsexual Leona Lo details the shame and anger she felt on her journey in a cathartic book t…