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ABCLocal.Go.com – KGO NEWS
Committee Could Add Surgery To City’s Health Plan
KGO – The Berkeley city council has unanimously approved a study to add transgender surgery to the city health plan.
Forty-nine-year-old Lynn Riordan spearheaded the …
GayNZ.com
Less than a month after the controversial staging of the Miss Nepal pageant, the country’s gay community has held a Miss Transgender contest, in a double defiance of the Maoist opposition to beauty pageants as well as homosexuality.
Wea…
YumaSun.com – By Jeffrey Gautreaux, Sun Staff Writer
Pink balloons were released Sunday evening from near the grave of Amancio Corrales, commemorating the two-year anniversary of the Yuma man’s unsolved murder. Corrales, a gay man who performed as a…
PRLeap.com – Dr. Jillian T. Weiss
On June 12, 2007, New Jersey Bill S362 will take effect, adding ?gender identity or expression? to the list of classes protected from discrimination. Employers whose actions discriminate against transgender employee…
DNAIndia.com
Kathmandu: Less than a month after the controversial staging of the Miss Nepal pageant, the country’s gay community has held a Miss Transgender contest, in a double defiance of the Maoist opposition to beauty pageants as well as homose…
NYTimes.com – By David Stout
Washington – The House of Representatives voted today to extend ?hate crime? protection to people who are victimized because of their sexuality. But the most immediate effect of the bill may be to set up another veto sho…
PRNewsWire.com – PRNewswire – USNewswire
Group Calls on Senate to Now Pass Integral Legislation
Washington – Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) applauded the House of Representatives today for its passing of the Local Law …
Canada.com – Alan Hustak, The Gazette
Police watch. Denizens of the Main divided on effect of latest security effort
Cameras on the Lower Main are peeping on the people who go to peep shows.
Six video surveillance cameras went into operation T…
CBS11TV.com
Fort Worth – Make-up, high heels and tight blue jeans may not be unusual for high school, but what if it’s a teenage boy who is wearing that to class?
Rodney Evans said he has always considered himself a woman, but didn’t start dressing…
BLog.Wired.com
A combined online/ real-world townhall devoted to new federal standards for state-issued identification cards on Tuesday brought transgender activists, religious fundamentalists, anti-domestic violence groups together with the usual c…