We’ve migrated to new hardware

URNA is a pretty large site with lots of activity. It runs spread across 3 Machines…

Machine 1: Web/Chat Server and Assorted Processes
Machine 2: Dedicated as a Database Server
Machine 3: This is a Statistics Server for crunching our Stats.

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Floats like a butterfly, dresses like a she

irishtimes.com – Fionala Meredith – photographs by Charles McQuillan

T’s a few days before Christmas, and at a small suburban social club near Belfast, preparations for a party are well under way. The mince pies are heating up in the oven, sausage r…

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A queen’s weekend

xtra.ca – Noreen Fagan

Ottawa – This weekend is going to drag in a big, bold way. Both queens and kings are going to be singing for a wish, fighting for a title, ogling at the veterans and partying at a post Gaga show.

On Friday night, queers wil…

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Betwixt and between

telegraphindia.com – Smitha Verma

When Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, a transgender activist, was asked to leave the Gymkhana Club in Mumbai last year, she knew it was still a long walk on the road to social acceptance for the third sex. Tripathi, who has …

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