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365Gay.com – by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
(Washington) Vigils, services and a variety of other events are being held in 250 cities around the world today to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance – the day set aside to memorialize those who were kil…
PrideSource.com – By Chris Azzopardi
BrainKate and Jamie ducked behind a parked car. After dodging beer bottles to the head and hearing “faggot” echo beneath the Long Island, N.Y., sky, the two friends weren’t sure they would make it out alive.
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PersonnelToday.com – Mike Berry
A claim for sex discrimination, thought to be the biggest ever involving a transsexual, is due to go to tribunal next week.
Jessica Bussert, formerly known as Josh, is seeking ?500,000 from Hitachi Data Systems und…
AZStarNet.com – By Dan Sorenson
Soon, restrooms at the University of Arizona will come in at least three varieties: men’s, women’s and “gender neutral”.
The UA has adopted a “Statement on Restroom Access” to make relieving oneself a bit less stre…
WDCMedia.com
(AgapePress) – A newspaper columnist in Newton, Massachusetts, says school officials in the town are insisting that elementary students be subjected to classroom teaching on transgenders and transvestites.
Irish immigrant Emer O’Shea…
Collegian.PSU.edu – By Katy Hopkins For The Collegian
Beginning college is a tough transition for any student, made doubly hard for those simultaneously going through a gender identity crisis, a university analyst said yesterday.
Sue Rankin, seni…
www.News.UToronto.ca – by Karen
A fund to provide bursaries to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students will be launched on Thursday, Nov. 16 at 5 p.m. in Room 253, University College, 15 King’s College Circle.
The Roberts Fund is being es…
DelawareOnline.com – By Sean O’Sullivan, The News Journal
Wilmington ? Court officials fretted today about how to deal with a transgender inmate who is HIV positive.
Tanya Bowie, 33, of Philadelphia looks like a woman but has male genitals. Bowie…
News.BBC.co.uk
South Africa’s parliament has voted to legalise same-sex weddings – the first African country to approve such unions.
The controversial Civil Union bill was passed by 230 votes to 41.
The legislation was introduced after the Con…
ChinaDaily.com.cn – By Wang Zhuoqiong and Xie Fang
Some might think of cross-dressing as high camp, but in China these days it could also be considered high art, or at the very least a bit of good clean fun.
In the most high-profile example of th…