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BeyondChron.org – by Tommi Avicolli-Mecca
“All of us or none of us.” That about sums up my feelings about the controversy over the exclusion of transgenders from the Congressional gay rights bill that would protect queers from discrimination in empl…
SFGate.com
Here is a sample of the more than 230 comments – reflecting a vigorous debate in the gay, lesbian and transgender communities – registered on SFGate by 6 p.m. Tuesday. To see all the comments, go to sfgate.com/ZBAG.
I think this is the…
TracyPress.com – Matt Foreman
A commentary by Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Inc.
At this critical moment in our efforts to pass an Employment Non-Discrimination Act that includes transgender people u…
GayWired.com – By Bryan Ochalla
A preliminary assessment of the revised version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (EDNA), set to go before the House Education and Labor committee on Tuesday, shows the bill to be riddled with loopholes in addi…
GayCityNews.com – By Paul Schindler
With less than 24 hours to go before a House committee was due to take up the amended version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), stripped of transgender protections, Democratic leaders in the Hous…
ThisIsCheshire.co.uk
A man has been convicted of unlawfully killing a transvestite during sex.
The 47-year-old victim died after gay sex at Steven Boyd’s home in Wallasey.
A Liverpool Crown Court jury took just an hour and a half to find Boyd …
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Washington – More than 90 national and state lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) org…
SFBG.com – By Amber Peckham
One of the first waves of protest over the move in Congress to remove transgender people from an anti-discrimination bill came from the labor movement. Members of Pride at Work, an LGBT-focused labor coalition and the new…
WashingtonPost.com – By Anthony Faiola – Washington Post Staff Writer
New York — After years of painful soul searching, Rhiannon O’Donnabhain — a former construction engineer from a devout Irish Catholic family in Boston — decided to surgically c…
365Gay.com – by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
(Washington) A new version of the Federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act – with protections for the transgendered removed – goes to the House Education and Labor committee this week amid growing anger f…