URNA Staff CBS5.com
San Francisco’s annual Pride Parade festival and celebration is scheduled to kick off Saturday at noon, bringing hundreds of thousands of attendees to the city who are expected to infuse an estimated $100 million into the local economy over…
Queerty.com
Right now only a handful of provinces in Canada protect transgender folk from discrimination, but Bill Siksay, a New Democratic (that’s the furthest-to-the-left party for you Americans) Member of Parliament from British Columbia, wants t…
TucsonCitizen.com – Anne T. Denogean
An advertising campaign by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender organization Wingspan in Tucson provoked plenty of online conversation. Here’s a sample of some of the comments. If you want to see all of the…
ManilaTimes.net – Francis ?Chuck? Gomez
As I began to traverse the vast terrain of modern transgender politics and ideology in preparation for this story, I realized that I am no expert in the field and subject of transgender identity. Like most peo…
SFGate – Wyatt Buchanan – Chronicle Staff Writer
Police officer who reached out in 1960s to be grand marshal
Elliot Blackstone is congratulated by S.F. Police Chief H… Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence members (in background) t… SF Pride Event…
TheVillager.com – Lawrence Lerner
Transgender activist Dee Perez is a study in transitions, not only morphing from male to female during her 28-year lifespan but rising from the projects and drug addiction to become a successful community activist a…
TorontoSun.com – Mike Strobel
Boy meets girl. Girl meets boy. Boy meets boy. Girl meets girl. Boy is girl. Girl was boy. Boy meets girl/boy …
Man, oh, man, Pride Week is confusing.
I found this out while waltzing about in a velvet dress, Je…
BeyondChron.com
The Third Annual Trans March will take place today, Friday, June 23rd in Dolores Park, San Francisco. Live bands, transgender and gender-variant activists, political speakers, drag kings, and musicians will perform from 3 pm till 7 p…
?Dixie Queen,? a documentary about N.C. drag queen group, is a realistic, raucous good time
Working as a drag queen is a fierce occupation anywhere, but being a drag queen in the small-town South requires a thick-skinned bitchiness that is not easil…
BeyondChron.com – Tommi Avicolli Mecca
Yesterday, the city of San Francisco rightly honored the 40th anniversary of the Compton Riot by dedicating a plaque in the cement in front of the spot where it occurred. Compton’s Cafeteria at Turk and Taylor …