URNA Staff Our June Member of the Month for 2006 is in. June’s award goes to Mandy Taylor!
Congratulations Mandy, and thanks to everyone who participated! When we reset the ratings, over 37,376 votes had been cast for those competing. Now its time to start fre…
TheOpenPress.com – Kim Angel
?Sparkle has at last brought a real celebration for Transgender, Internationally. It not only educates within the TG community through lectures and workshops, it not only showcases TG talent but it truly educates the gen…
IndyStar.com – Kelly Kendall
As I brushed a piece of hair behind my ear on Friday night, it crossed my mind that I was probably the only one in the place wearing little pearl studs. Dripping faux diamonds are the standard at the Talbott Street drag …
PrideSource.com
“DEAR DIARY: Well, after my nagging wife, my dodo sister-in-law, and Pastor Verner Blitzkrieg subjected me to an intervention last month, I finally got up nerve to attend my first Cross Dressers Anonymous for Jesus meeting.
“There…
SFGate.com
Frameline30, the 30th San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, ended Sunday night with announcements of the event’s three major awards. Ned Farr’s “The Gymnast,” a drama about a female ex-gymnast who discovers a new life in the wor…
IndyBay.org – Chris Daley
San Francisco ? California took another step towards becoming the first state to meaningfully respond to strategies that blame transgender people for their own murders. The Gwen Araujo Justice for Victims Act (AB 1160), aut…
Advocate.com – Joanne Herman
For male-to-female transsexuals, estrogen can deliver soft skin, sensuous curves, and a profound sense of harmony – but it?s no magic bullet.
Forgive me while I dip into my prior (male) life for a proper analogy to d…
CityPages.com – Quinton Skinner
The stubborn thing about stories is their tendency to disobey their maker. Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife is a work whose peculiar narrative truths shifted wildly during the process of its creation. A hit on Broadway …
Gay.com
Manchester gay bar New York New York and Operation Fundraiser are attempting to break a world record for the number of drag queens dancing in a line.
The event is scheduled for the August Bank holiday.
The current record, set up to two…
DecaturDaily.com – Amanda Thomas – Associated Press Writer
Montgomery – On the same day Alabama voters passed an amendment banning same-sex marriage, a transgender woman and her female partner tied the knot legally in Chilton County ? but only after…