URNA Staff TheJakartaPost.com – Simon Pitchforth
While returning home one evening last week after blowing the froth off a few ales on Jakarta’s street of backpackers and broken dreams (Jl. Jaksa), my Blue Bird hansom cab passed over the river/canal overpass th…
HoustonVoice.com – Eric Ervin
Dr. Wayne Bockman, who oversees transgender care at Legacy Community Health Services, has seen the horror stories of transgender persons who will stop at nothing for change.
Many who can?t afford professional medical…
TheLocal.se
The number of sex change operations in Sweden has tripled in the past 13 years.
Last year, 48 people in Sweden applied to change gender after undergoing therapy to confirm that they belonged psychologically to the opposite sex. This c…
GayAlliance.com – Michael Steck
“The Seen? is a series of articles that are about the people we see in our GLBT community all the time. We may know them by name or we may know them by face but however we know them, our scene would not be the same w…
Advocate.com – Joanne Herman
“Transgender? You’re Fired!” Or worse?you may be murdered. Transgender people may face discrimination on the job, in housing, or even in trying to pee. Some turn to legal proceedings to establish their rights. Some never…
RecordNet.com
Sacramento – A body found in a submerged car in the Delta on Wednesday may be that of a Lodi transgender woman missing for more than a year.
Ed Smith, Sacramento County’s assistant coroner, said the car was registered to Alicia Sand…
SouthernVoice.com – Dyana Bagby
One simple rule for decorating your home: Never let lesbians hang your pictures.
?They always hang them so high,? says Robin Barbaree of Atlanta with a laugh.
?But they do know how to throw a party,? he adds qui…
MontrealMirror.com – Matthew Hays
Amanda Lepore, the ?world?s number one transsexual,? on cosmetic surgery, her Hollywood influences and how to make your own glamour
New York-based model and performer Amanda Lepore knew she was different from a v…
eBar.com – Zak Szymanski
A scenario in which two women sleep together and one of them later announces she is straight could conceivably provoke a violent “heat of passion” reaction from a lesbian and lend itself to a “panic” defense in a courtroom, …
Belleville.com – Alan Scher Zagier
Centralia, Mo. – Politicians looking to launch high-profile careers awash in the cable news klieg lights and the Sunday network gabfests should avoid this town’s Board of Aldermen.
Around here, the agenda is mor…