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BurlingtonFreePress.com – By Lauren Ober – Free Press Staff Writer
After Gov. Jim Douglas’ veto last year of a bill that would have protected the state’s transgender population from discrimination, proponents of the measure began work to reintroduce…
DailyMail.co.uk – By Beth Hale
It has listed the ‘noteworthy and influential’ – and their wives and husbands – for more than a century.
But the latest Who’s Who has a new category. The entries now include the other halves of those who have ‘marri…
TimesOfIndia.IndiaTimes.com – Abantika Ghosh
New Delhi: “I feel trapped… my mind is crisscrossing… I am neither embarrassed nor traumatised. But I have a feeling of being incomplete” ? this is what Subhash (name changed) wrote in his declaration…
SFBayTimes.com – By Jacob Anderson-Minshall
Following on the footsteps of a watershed year, 2006 saw increased visibility and political gains for the U.S. trans community. Here are some examples:
1. With the Gwen Araujo Justice for Victims Act, …
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The US Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, which interprets religious law for the Conservative movement of Judaism, has ruled to allow both commitment ceremonies for same-sex couples and the ordination of gay and lesbian rabbis.
“We rej…
MetroWeekly.com – by Yusef Najafi
A new analysis finds Washington, D.C. topping the list in transgender murders
In the past decade in Washington seven people were murdered, or died, as a result of someone else’s wrongdoing because they were trans…
PinkNews.co.uk – PinkNews.co.uk writer
A transsexual is calling on schools to raise better awareness of gender and sexuality issues after claiming she was subjected to two weeks of “urban terrorism.”
Hull based Rikki Arundel says a gang of 10 you…
SpringfieldNewsSun.com – By Gail Cetnar – Staff Writer
During the marriage license oath, couples are asked whether either person is a transsexual or has syphilis.
Most couples on their way to the wedding chapel are prepared to answer the big ques…
NewYorkBlade.com – By Kerry Eleveld
City Council allocates funds to improve services
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Coalition for the Homeless released a report last week that found that up to 42 percent of the nation?s …
SouthernVoice.com – By Elizabeth Perry
Two Ga. victims among ?50 under 30? slain in last decade
Only 15 years old, Quincy Favors Taylor performed as a woman at Atlanta bars, including the now-defunct Loretta?s nightclub. But Taylor?s attempt at a…