URNA Staff MetroWeekly.com – by Will O’Bryan
While Washington has some of the best civil-rights protections for transgender residents of any jurisdiction in the country — or the world, for that matter — those protections don’t always insulate the community f…
JournalNow.com – Susan Gilmor – relish editor
After Eric Hinson moved to Greensboro 10 years ago, he realized that he was missing something.
Both of the cities he had lived in before – Charlotte and Knoxville, Tenn. – had gay-pride festivals. Gre…
BayWindows.com – Lisa Keen
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson wasn?t the only candidate to injure himself with LGBT voters in the Aug. 9 presidential forum. His self-inflicted wounds were just the most dramatic.
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama came across as…
MetroWeekly.com – by Yusef Najafi
There weren’t too many people to look up to in mainstream media while growing up as female-to-male transgender, recalls Katastrophe.
The 27-year-old native of the San Francisco Bay Area says that even today media…
Examiner.com – by Christina Troup, The Examiner
San Francisco – Lu Read, better known as Fudgie Frottage, the gender-bending host extraordinaire of San Francisco?s annual Drag King Contest, has Great Danes on the brain.
Just about every year, …
Scoop.co.nz – Press Release: Agender New Zealand
Transgender Awareness Day 15 August 2007
In August 1966, at an all night caf? called Comptons, in the city of San Francisco, transgendered people for the first time fought back against the harassme…
News.MonstersAndCritics.com
Jakarta – An organization for transvestites plans to participate in events marking Indonesia’s Independence Day this week, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
About 265 members of the Yogyakarta Transvestites Organization, b…
ThisIsLondon.co.uk – Andrew Williams
As every two-bit gag-merchant in town has hot-footed it to the Edinburgh Festival, so it falls to the talents of globe-trotting drag queen Miss Coco Peru to put bums on seats at the Soho Theatre. With a 14-year d…
Newsweek.WashingtonPost.com
Lahore, Pakistan – “I’m a drag queen, darling?not an extremist?and I still say if Pakistanis had more self-respect, we’d be even more anti-American,” says Ali Saleem, who glosses his lips and dons a sari each week to inte…
The-Dispatch.com – BY Sha’Day Jackson
Robbie Cohn, 56, has decided she will no longer pretend to be someone she is not.
“After the genie was out of the bottle, I told myself that I would never live in denial ever again,” said Cohn, who was bor…