URNA Staff InfoShop.org – Liz Highleyman
Queer Activism and the Global Justice Movement
… One of the most visible factions of the contemporary radical queer milieu is the transgender (TG) movement, which has taken many people by surprise with the sheer sp…
SFPride.org
The Pride Experience! Every year at the beginning of June, 500 rainbow flags are hoisted the length of Market Street and San Francisco explodes with queerness. For a city known as “Gay Mecca” for the other eleven months of the year, June…
Infoshop.org – G. W. Miller III
Members of the Pink Pistols try to deal with hate crimes by arming themselves. Their pro-gun views haven’t made them many friends within the gay community.
Elderly ladies in prim tan suits and buttoned-up white blo…
Lifetimetv.com – A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
Let’s start with a Synopsis from Lifetime TV’s – A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
Imagine feeling like you’re trapped in the wrong body, that there’s been some sort of mistake ? that you…
Mainichi Daily News
“She” strutted into the train carriage, hitched up “her” black miniskirt, and slumped down on the Hankyu Line train seat with “her” legs spread. From a hole in “her” pantyhose protruded an object that not only gave away the fact …
TVGuide.com – Matt Webb Mitovich
If Boys Don’t Cry, what is it that wannabe girls aren’t supposed to do? In Lifetime’s A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story (premiering tonight at 9 pm/ET), Academy Award winner Mercedes Ruehl plays Sylvia, a single …
NewYorkBlade.com – Trenton Straube
Club icon Aviance vows to make Pride appearance
Nightlife performance artist Kevin Aviance is recovering in an undisclosed location after surviving a hate-crime attack at 1:30am last Saturday in the East Village…
AlertNet.org
Guatemala City, June 19 (Reuters) – A transvestite prostitute was murdered in a drive-by shooting in Guatemala’s capital during the weekend, human rights activists said on Monday, the latest in a spate of violence against sex workers.
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ToBe.ca
Bill Siksay introduces bill to amend the Canadian Human Rights
Ottawa ? NDP MP Bill Siksay (Burnaby-Douglas) re-introduced a bill in the House of Commons on June 19 that would add protections for transsexual and transgender Canadians to t…
LATimes.com – Molly Hennessy-Fiske – Times Staff Writer
The proximity of the president doesn’t stop a service group from its fundraising, festivities.
Waco, Texas ? On Saturday night, as President Bush prepared to celebrate Father’s Day on his ra…