West Bank gays more at home in Israel

SFGate.com – Matthew Kalman, Chronicle Foreign Service

Ramallah, West Bank – In the center of town in a cafe named Stars & Bucks, a young Palestinian who likes to be known as the Diva Nawal sips a bright pink milkshake and checks out the early eveni…

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6 compete in IUs first drag king competition

IDSNews.com – By Michael Reschke

Male impersonators judged on basis of onstage interviews, talent competition, costumes

The words “If you were a woman and I was a man” blasted from the speakers in the McNutt Quad Flame Room Thursday night, while …

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Butch is a noun

SoVo.com – By Zach Hudson

Author S. Bear Bergman redefines gender identities with new book

In author and gender theorist S. Bear Bergman?s mind, the lines of gender distinction don?t stop at male and female. In fact, in ?Butch is a Noun,? Bergman…

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The Party is about to begin!

RoundTownNews.co.uk – Written by Michael Lord

The biggest party on the island, the Carnival of Las Palmas, starts officially on Friday 2nd February with the Preg?n, the opening ceremony, and ends with the burial of the sardine on Saturday 24th Febru…

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South of the border

PrideSource.com – By Gwendolyn Ann Smith

It was recently announced that David Sanchez Camacho, a congressperson in Mexico, intends to submit a bill allowing for constitutional protections for transgender people. His bill would add gender identity an…

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Trans-fixed

Hour.ca – Josey Vogels

Dear Josey,I’m a 42-year-old male, with a wonderful girlfriend, but I’m drawn to trannies. I had a minor homosexual experience as a young teenager and I really do find some “chicks with dicks” hot! Am I gay, or bored? Do you…

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Mission remembers

OttSun.Canoe.ca – By Earl McRae

Plaques honour those who have passed away at shelter

In memory of our friends who were loved and cared for at The Mission Hospice. We miss you.

— The inscription —

Three more died last week. In one day….

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