URNA Staff Our May Member of the Month for 2006 is in. May’s award goes to Pie Concepcion Mendoza!
Congratulations Pie, and thanks to everyone who participated! When we reset the ratings, over 41,789 votes had been cast for those competing. Now its time to sta…
Zeek.net – Sarah Lefton
“Rituals of legitimization for extant corrupt political structures”: Joan JettBlakk
Joan JettBlakk, the creation and “soul sister” of Chicagoan Terence Smith, is a queer black drag queen who dons a masculine look in her dr…
Stuff.co.nz
A transsexual in the “final stages of her transformation” stole a dead baby’s identity so she could travel as a woman, a Christchurch District Court judge heard today.
Despite a lawyer’s plea to defer a jail sentence so Leilani Sialap…
CBS4Denver.com
Aurora, Colo. A man who wants a sex change is suing King Soopers.
He lives life as a woman named Kim Dowers.
Downers claims she wasn’t allowed to use the woman’s restroom at work. So, she was forced to transfer to a store in Aur…
New University Paper – Ginny Wang
Biologically speaking, sexuality is an easy concept to grasp. Whether you learned about it through a high school sex education video, your parents or childhood experiences, the gender differences between men and w…
Boston.com – By Denise Lavoie, AP Legal Affairs Writer
Boston – A man serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife is asking a federal judge to order the state to pay for a sex-change operation for him, saying that denying him the surgery amou…
Jared Fewlass
As the lights dimmed and the crowd grew quiet, the stars took the stage. Friday night, the Apollo Room in the Student Union belonged to the Rainbow Alliance, family members and friends for the Third Annual Charity Drag Show.
With ro…
DailyBulletin.com – Kelly Rush, Staff Writer
Drag demonstration from “Screaming Queens.” (Photo courtesy of KQED)
A scalding cup of coffee thrown at a police officer at a hangout in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District did more than burn his skin….
PinkNews.co.uk
A transsexual is considering legal action against her Primary Care Trust after being told she must wait up to six years to have a sex change.
Emma was told in 2003 that she was a woman trapped in a man?s body and was eligible for t…
PinkNews.co.uk
Vietnam?s transgendered community has lost out in new laws which legalise sex changes only for androgynies.
The legislation allows people with both male and female genital features but means those with physically distinct sexual id…