URNA Staff tampabay.com – By John Fleming, Times Performing Arts Critic
Tampa – La Cage aux Folles is like the full employment act for drag queens. Sometimes, a woman is slipped into the well-muscled chorus line at the naughty nightclub on the French Riviera, …
guardian.co.uk – Maureen Paton – The Guardian
Natasha Ozimek was 16, and two days away from sitting her physics AS-level, when her father John told her he was planning to change sex; a process known as transitioning. “It was awful when I found out. …
usnews.msnbc.msn.com – By Becky Bratu, msnbc.com
A Virginia school district is considering a ban on cross-dressing by students to minimize what administrators say are “safety risks, disruptions and distractions.”
The Suffolk County School Board s…
victoriaadvocate.com – by camille m. doty
Gillian Ybabez was born a man, but she now identifies herself as a woman.
As a teenager, Ybabez, now 30, questioned her gender. She thought her feelings would go away, but they never did.
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When: …
bostonglobe.com – By Meghan E. Irons – Globe Staff
Eziah Karter-Sabir Blake swiped the play debit card through a plastic reader during a game of Monopoly recently. Another multimillion-dollar sale. The buyer, Giftson Joseph, rubbed his hands togethe…
outandaboutnewspaper.com – by O&AN Staff Reports
Cancellor Carol L. McCoy of the Davidson County Chancery Court in Nashville has issued a preliminary order in Howe v. Haslam.
Howe is the highly publicized case challenging the Tennessee Legislatu…
sfgate.com – Nirmala Nataraj, Special to The Chronicle
When Russell Blackwood first got into the midnight-movie movement as a teenager in the ’70s, performances such as “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” were at their apogee. Today, the artistic direct…
themarysue.com – by Susana Polo
The big news on the Blizzard front yesterday was that they’d decided not to have a BlizzCon in 2012; that is, the large fan convention at which the titan (ha ha insidery Blizzard joke) of the gaming community makes th…
citypaper.com – By Laura Dattaro
In 2008, City Councilmember Bill Henry (D-4th District) introduced a resolution urging the Baltimore City delegation to the Maryland General Assembly to show support for statewide marriage-equality legislation. The b…
huffingtonpost.com – Valerie Keefe – Writer, activist, candidate, unpaid political consultant, service-sector prole, and general nuisance
There are many valid reasons to oppose the passage of SOPA. I won’t dignify the bill with its Orwellian name, j…