URNA Staff TheMoscowTimes.com
A former police officer and a friend got a surprise when the Peruvian woman they thought they were kidnapping on a Moscow street turned out to be a pre-operative transsexual.
The 30-year-old Peruvian, identified by police as R…
Canada.com – Ciara Byrne, Ottawa Citizen
Despite differences, O’Brien wants ‘open, straightforward dialogue’ with organizations
The mayor can learn a thing or two about swagger, according to some people in the gay community.
Mayor Larry O’Brie…
WashBlade.com
On Aug. 9, The Human Rights Campaign and the Logo TV network hosted what was billed as the ?first GLBT forum? for the Democratic candidates. ?Forum?? What I saw that night looked more like gays and lesbians questioning the candidates o…
TV3.co.nz
A government department has hired a prominent drag queen to motivate staff and the National party is questioning whether it is appropriate.
Edward Crowley, known as “Buckwheat”, was hired by the Ministry of Social Development as a moti…
In.Reuters.com
Beijing (Reuters) – Not content with banning “vulgar” reality TV shows, China’s culture guardians have added transsexuals and plastic surgery patients to the burgeoning hit-list of proscribed content on the country’s airways.
China…
ManchesterEveningNews.co.uk – Kevin Bourke
Local young person’s arts group, The Moston Active Drama Group (MAD), is celebrating record sales for performances of its latest play, She’s Just Nipped Out For Fags, running at the Library Theatre until Sa…
IHT.com – The Associated Press
Boston: A woman should be allowed to deduct her $25,000 (?18,440) sex change operation on her federal taxes because her gender identity disorder was a medical condition, her lawyers argued Thursday.
The U.S. tax age…
Hour.ca – Richard Burnett
Mado La Motte in Saving C?line
Who’s the biggest diva of them all? Mado La Motte does Dion in Saving C?line
It was a moment made in drag queen heaven. Wrapping up this summer’s tenth annual edition of Mascara: La Nui…
Hour.ca – Richard Burnett
Brotherly love
Over the last decade or so you’ve read many stories in this column about my 13-year-old adopted brother Skye, whom I’ve raised like he was my own son.
There was the column about the day Skye described …
Bloomberg.com – By Bill Faries
(Bloomberg) – Transvestite prostitutes working one of Buenos Aires’s toniest neighborhoods are squaring off against wealthy residents who say they shouldn’t ply their trade in a public park where children romp.
By d…