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IndyBay.com – Cecilia Chung
San Francisco, CA ? Last night, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget Committee unanimously approved a historic $300,000 commitment aimed at turning around high rates of poverty in San Francisco?s transgender comm…
Miami.com – Roberto Santiago
Broward County schools’ progressive policy on transgendered children will be tested by the admission to kindergarten this fall of a boy who believes that he’s a girl.
One little girl entering Broward County kindergart…
SouthernVoice.com – Zack Hudson
Sixteen of Georgia?s Fortune 500 companies received high marks from the national Human Rights Campaign for implementing pro-gay policies, ranging from domestic partner benefits to gender identity protections.
The H…
eBar.com – Zak Szymanski
“I went into one job interview expecting to discuss my skills,” Macy Roberts, a transgender woman who recently lived in California, told the Bay Area Reporter. “Instead I was asked questions about my bathroom habits, and the…
265Gay.com
(Vienna) A ruling by Austria’s highest court in an unusual case has resulted in the country’s first same-sex marriage.
It involves a transsexual who, while still biologically male, married a woman. Now that the transition is complete …
TheOpenPress.com – Kim Angel
?Sparkle has at last brought a real celebration for Transgender, Internationally. It not only educates within the TG community through lectures and workshops, it not only showcases TG talent but it truly educates the gen…
KLTV.com
Robyn Lewis, owner of Dark Charm fashion and accessories for women, represents the first line of defense for the Magazine Street shop owners. She is the first to see them come strutting in their pumps down St. Andrew Street, the bewigged pa…
1010Wins.com
New York – Tens of thousands of raucous parade-goers braved intermittent rain and lined Fifth Avenue on Sunday for the annual gay pride parade, an event that comes just weeks after a vicious attack on a popular gay singer and the 25th a…
Queerty.com
Right now only a handful of provinces in Canada protect transgender folk from discrimination, but Bill Siksay, a New Democratic (that’s the furthest-to-the-left party for you Americans) Member of Parliament from British Columbia, wants t…
TucsonCitizen.com – Anne T. Denogean
An advertising campaign by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender organization Wingspan in Tucson provoked plenty of online conversation. Here’s a sample of some of the comments. If you want to see all of the…