URNA Staff Queerty.com
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Being gay in India ain’t easy. As we’ve seen, the former British colony refuses to shed Section 377, the anachronistic law banning homosexuality. Well, the issue came up this weekend over at India’s NDTV, where journo Re…
TurkishDailyNews.com.tr – Duygu Guvenc
They are rejecting my application to stand for the election just because they do not want shame for the Turkish Republic, said Ayşe T?kr?k??, 40, a former prostitute whose dream is to enter Parliament to v…
Reuters.com
New York (Reuters Life!) – A drag queen has taken the art of selling Tupperware to a new level by turning his story into an off-Broadway show.
Instead of demonstrating the plastic containers at coffee mornings and parties in suburban ho…
Star-eCentral.com – By Kee Hua Chee
Pesona Pictures Waris Jari Hantu (Spirit of the Tiger) examines a little known myth in Negeri Sembilan.
Is horror a formula for box office success these days? The two Pontianak movies produced by Pesona Pictur…
LEP.co.uk
A drag queen from Lancaster is about to make a splash on Preston’s amateur stage with a play in which nobody speaks at all.
Ben Muir, 31, wrote the play for the After Dark Theatre company to perform at the Preston One Act Play Festival …
Officer.com – By Christine Vendel
Kansas City, Mo. – Jessica, a Kansas City, Mo., police officer, is 6 feet tall with a chin dimple, pink manicured fingernails and a birth certificate that says “male.”
But in her mind, Jessica believes she has al…
NewsObserver.com – Meiling Arounnarath, Staff Writer
Chapel Hill – As a 10-year-old, Eric Swenson stuffed toilet paper in his T-shirt to make breasts.
At 60, Erin Swenson talks to churchgoers, college students and others about life as a transgen…
BayWindows.com – Ethan Jacobs
More than 100 people turned out for a vigil June 7 at St. Anne?s Episcopal Church in Lowell to show unity in response to a violent attack on a transwoman June 1 that left the victim, Janine Nickola, with cuts on her ar…
News.BostonHerald.com – By Michele McPhee – Boston Herald Police Bureau Chief
Dressed in drag to evade capture, notorious Boston cop killer Thomas Shay is the target of a massive manhunt after violating his probation, for the third time,since he kil…
eMediaWire.com
Families with gender variant and transgender children will find a wealth of information and support at Gender Odyssey’s first national conference focused specifically on them. The ground-breaking conference will be held Aug. 31 — Sep…