URNA Staff SFBayTimes.com – By Sister Dana Van Iquity
A Benefit for PAWS
In possibly the most dog-friendly city in the country, the First Annual Canine Film Festival came to the Castro Theatre for the weekend of October 7-8. It was the first major dog film …
Advocate.com
Belgin still vividly remembers the night, more than a quarter of a century ago, when police herded her and dozens of other transsexuals and transvestites onto a train as part of a campaign to clean up Istanbul. “We did not know where th…
Bloomberg.com – By Steven Bodzin
Bloomberg – Hundreds of thousands of fun-seekers usually swarm into the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco each Oct. 31 for one of the biggest, wildest Halloween celebrations in the U.S.
They may be disappointed…
SouthernVoice.com – Eric Ervin
Meetings focus on trans prostitution, alleged police harassment
Transgender activists and Atlanta Police Department officials met Oct. 4 to address issues of alleged police harassment of transgender residents as wel…
365Gay.com – by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
(London) A transsexual man who alleges he was fired by multi-national banking company HSBC because of his corrected gender will be allowed to appeal a labor tribunal ruling that dismissed most of his case….
Today.Reuters.com – By Corinne Heller
Jerusalem (Reuters) – Researchers in Israel, the Palestinian territories and Germany are pursuing a project to transform female freshwater fish into males, a sex change they hope will put bigger fish on the dinn…
NewspaperTree.com – by Richard Baron
When a leggy blonde calling herself Jessica Jameson showed up at the 40th reunion of El Paso High’s class of ?66 a few weeks back, nobody was quite able to place her at first. She looked familiar, to be sure, and…
QueerPlanet.us – By David Johnson, Columnist
… James Baldwin
One of America?s greatest African-American writers, James Baldwin wrote many works. One of these books, Giovanni?s Room, focuses on homosexuality. It was published in 1956, a time whe…
TimesOnline.co.uk – Brilliant writing by students for students
After reports of an evangelical course promising to ?cure? gay students Ben Judge and Hannah Thomas examine the response from British students.
Students nationwide have joined an onli…
News.com.au/daily/telegraph – Sydney Confidential
Former Australian Idol drag queen Courtney Act was left battered and shaken after being the victim of an inner-city mugging at the weekend.
The flamboyant cross-dresser, whose real name is Shane Jen…