URNA Staff 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…
VillageVoice.com – by Kevin McKenna
As a gay student at Columbia University, I was looking forward to hearing what Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had to say about the documented persecution of homosexuals in his country. Ahmadinejad did not d…
MercuryNews.com – By Karen D’Souza – Mercury News
The great work begins! The messenger has arrived!
Only she may not be quite as you remember her. In past incarnations of “Angels in America,” the heavenly title character has often been a strangel…
Sun-Sentinel.com – By Patty Pensa – South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Policies would seek to protect civil rights
Transgender is quietly becoming a protected class in South Florida as cities vote to prohibit discrimination against a group that faces tre…
ICWales.ICNetwork.co.uk – by Peter Collins, South Wales Echo
For most of his life, 46-year-old Andrew Cross has been tortured by the feeling that inside his man?s body and mind a woman has been aching to get out.
Suppressing the almost overwhelm…
SixtyMinutes.Prev01.NineMSN.com.au
Reporter: Barbara Walters
Producers: Alan B. Goldberg, Joneil Adriano
Physically, it’s obvious what we are from the moment we’re born.
We’re either a boy or a girl. And for the vast majority of us, that’s th…
Examiner.com – by Luke Broadwater – The Examiner
Baltimore – Prosecutors thought they had a surefire case against a 19-year-old Woodlawn man who they said killed a transvestite in a St. Paul Street apartment complex and set the victim on fire.
B…
NewPaper.Asia1.com.sg – By Sheela Narayanan
Singapore’s leading drag persona Kumar is taking his one-queen act from the club onto a bigger platform.
For the first time, the 39-year-old will be holding court at the Esplanade Theatre with his new s…
Gay.com
A woman should be allowed to deduct her $25,000 gender-reassignment surgery on her federal taxes because her gender identity disorder was a medical condition, her lawyers argued Thursday.
The U.S. tax agency would not let Rhiannon O’Donna…
SoVo.com – Zach Hudson
First trans career expo an ?unprecedented success?
Addressing overflow crowds at the 2007 Southern Comfort Conference, a series of top-level executives from national gay rights groups hammered out the message that transgend…