URNA Staff latimes.com – By Mark Olsen, Special to the Los Angeles Times
One of the most consistently compelling sections at Outfest, L.A.’s annual gay and lesbian film festival, has been its “4 in Focus” category, which spotlights the works of four first-ti…
projectqatlanta.com – By Project Q Atlanta
A transgender woman was assaulted in Midtown Friday morning after she allegedly solicited her apparent attacker for sex, according to the Atlanta Police Department.
The woman rode with her alleged attack…
windycitymediagroup.com – HRC News Release
Trial Judge Rules for Plaintiff Couples, Commonwealth of Massachusetts in Challenging Discriminatory Law
Washington – The Human Rights Campaign – the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgend…
dailymail.co.uk – By Alison Boshoff and Julie Moult
Kathlyn Beatty made her public debut at the age of only ten weeks.
As a baby, a tiny dark-haired bundle, she appeared at the Golden Globe awards in 1991.
Her mother, the actress Annette Beni…
haaretz.com – By Ofra Edelman
Three Jaffa brothers were indicted on Wednesday on charges that they attacked, kidnapped and imprisoned their younger brother, who is undergoing sex reassignment surgery, in order to preserve the family’s honor.
The …
huffingtonpost.com – Joanne Herman – Transgender advocate and author of “Transgender Explained For Those Who Are Not”
I often write about how transgender people who need to access hormone therapy and/or surgery (not all do) must go through one of th…
washingtonpost.com
Driving down New York Avenue, one would never guess the unassuming brick building with “Fringe” painted in big colorful letters on an overhang was a hub of creativity. Yet each year, the Capital Fringe Festival, which opens Thursd…
frostmagazine.com – by Jennie Higgins
Androgyny has always been a popular and recurring trend seen throughout designers work but a trend which is still seemingly slightly taboo, or at the very least not mainstream is cross dressing. When the term cr…
guardian.co.uk – Viv Groskop – The Guardian
“From the age of about eight I knew something wasn’t right with me,” says Benson, a 17-year-old from Cumbria. “But it was never an issue because I was just a kid having fun. When I hit puberty and started …
thelocal.se – Peter Vinthagen Simpson
The Swedish Health and Welfare Board (Socialstyrelsen) has called for an end to the requirement that all those seeking to change gender must be single and sterilised in a new report which argues that existing le…