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WCFCourier.com – By Mary Stegmeir – Courier Staff Writer
Waverly – Almost nine years ago, a bicyclist pedaling along a Laramie, Wyo. road discovered 21-year-old Matthew Shepard tied to a split-rail fence.
The college student was beaten so badly t…
News.BBC.co.uk – By Daniel Schweimler – BBC News, Buenos Aires
A court in the central Argentine province of Cordoba has for the first time agreed that a sex change operation can be carried out on a minor.
The case concerns a 17-year-old male ca…
SLTrib.com – Rebecca Walsh
I don’t know about the rest of you girls, but I’m more uncomfortable with the idea of peeing next to a man who believes he’s a man than peeing next to a man who believes he’s a woman.
That’s just me. Utah Transit Author…
VillageVoice.com – by Kevin McKenna
As a gay student at Columbia University, I was looking forward to hearing what Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had to say about the documented persecution of homosexuals in his country. Ahmadinejad did not d…
MiamiHerald.TypePad.com – Steve Rothaus
Seven in 10 gay men and lesbians have switched products or service providers because they learned the company engaged in negative actions toward the GLBT community
Rochester, NY ? September 24, 2007 ? Accor…
Sun-Sentinel.com – By Patty Pensa – South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Policies would seek to protect civil rights
Transgender is quietly becoming a protected class in South Florida as cities vote to prohibit discrimination against a group that faces tre…
Examiner.com – by Luke Broadwater – The Examiner
Baltimore – Prosecutors thought they had a surefire case against a 19-year-old Woodlawn man who they said killed a transvestite in a St. Paul Street apartment complex and set the victim on fire.
B…
Gay.com
A woman should be allowed to deduct her $25,000 gender-reassignment surgery on her federal taxes because her gender identity disorder was a medical condition, her lawyers argued Thursday.
The U.S. tax agency would not let Rhiannon O’Donna…
SoVo.com – Zach Hudson
First trans career expo an ?unprecedented success?
Addressing overflow crowds at the 2007 Southern Comfort Conference, a series of top-level executives from national gay rights groups hammered out the message that transgend…
WashBlade.com – Lou Chibbaro Jr
Neighbors say adult video store draws drug dealers, prostitutes
The gay head of the Mount Vernon Square Neighborhood Association led about 45 residents in a demonstration Monday night in front of an adult video sto…