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MeriNews.com – Tushar Madhav
The term ‘eunuch’ derives from Greek word for ‘bed’ indicative of the most ancient role of bed-keepers that eunuchs played. The practice continued till the end of the Ming Dynasty in China. Much has changed since then:…
EDGEBoston.com – by Kilian Melloy – EDGE Boston Contributor
Monica Roberts at transgriot.com has posted a blog containing an illuminating, timely, and comprehensive, history of the tensions between the GLB part of the GLBT community and the transgen…
News.Yahoo.com – Jeanna Bryner – LiveScience Staff Writer
Civil unions between male couples existed around 600 years ago in medieval Europe, a historian now says.
Historical evidence, including legal documents and gravesites, can be interpreted a…
LavenderMagazine.com – by Liz Highleyman
Television is a major influence on American popular culture, and the evolving presence of GLBT people on the small screen has both reflected and fostered acceptance of gays in mainstream society.
In the 19…
SeattlePi.NWSource.com – By Kery Murakami – P-I Reporter
At the Double Header tavern this week, men with stories to tell were drinking at the bar before noon.
But there were only a couple of reminders of the old Pioneer Square bar’s own story — …
LavenderMagazine.com – by Liz Highleyman
Though not well-known today, female-to-male philanthropist Reed Erickson provided funding for one of the first US gay organizations and some of the earliest services for transgender people.
Originally name…
Workers.org – By Leslie Feinberg
Lavender & red, part 76
One particularly militant action by a multinational group of gay men took place during the fall 1970 Revolutionary People?s Constitutional Convention, convened by the Black Panther Party. I…
QueerPlanet.us – By David Johnson, Columnist
… James Baldwin
One of America?s greatest African-American writers, James Baldwin wrote many works. One of these books, Giovanni?s Room, focuses on homosexuality. It was published in 1956, a time whe…
Arts.Guardian.co.uk
Mercury-prize winner Antony Hegarty tells John O’Mahony about the New York nightclub where he cut his teeth
On the corner of 14th Street and Washington, deep in the heart of New York’s meat-packing district, is the site once …
StarBulletin.com – Eduardo Hernandez
October is Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender History Month, a concept founded in the 1990s by teachers and community leaders, including the National Education Association. Just as we have Black History Month and W…