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Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release of a transman and his wife jailed in May for perjury.
Female-to-male transsexual Shumail Raj, 31, and his wife Shahzina Tariq, 24, were sent to jail when a Lahore court ruled Raj wa…
WindyCityMediaGroup.com – by Bob Roehr
The American Medical Association ( AMA ) amended its nondiscrimination policies to include transgender persons at the annual meeting of the AMA House of Delegates in Chicago, which ended on June 27.
The comp…
eBar.com – by Heather Cassell
San Francisco is taking the initiative and providing new services to transgender individuals.
Starting this week, University of California, San Francisco handed over its TRANS Project to the San Francisco Department …
EastLondonAdvertiser.co.uk – By Jessica Smith
Police have taken on a specialist officer to deal with homophobic crime in London’s East End.
She is Pc Melanie Conneely, Tower Hamlets’ new dedicated officer for two days a week dealing with the lesb…
NationMultimedia.com
After a week-long boycott campaign by gay networks, Novotel Siam Square will today formally apologise to Sutthirat Simsiri-wong, a transvestite who was barred entry to a nightclub at the hotel two weeks ago.
A spokesman for t…
PinkNews.co.uk – PinkNews.co.uk writer
The organisation that represents doctors in the USA has voted to amend its non-discrimination policies to include transgender people.
The American Medical Association’s non-discrimination policies already in…
Media.www.DailyIowan.com – Clara Hogan – The Daily Iowan
The bill that grants civil-rights protection to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Iowans was one of many new laws that took effect July 1.
The measure, which Gov. Chet Culver signed i…
365Gay.com – by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
(West Palm Beach, Florida) A teenager who severely beat a transsexual last year is not guilty of a hate crime a Palm Beach County Juvenile Court judge has ruled.
Judge Peter Blanc ruled that the teen, w…
bLog.SeattlePI.NWSource.com
Bill Gates, operating through his Cascade Investment arm, is among the investors participating in the $26.2 million funding of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender online community PlanetOut.
PlanetOut, which tra…
PalmBeachPost.com – By Kathleen Chapman – Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
The two strangers met outside a bar on Clematis Street in West Palm Beach.
One was a 17-year-old high school student out with a friend. The other was an attractive 39-year-old…