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Stuff.co.nz
A transsexual in the “final stages of her transformation” stole a dead baby’s identity so she could travel as a woman, a Christchurch District Court judge heard today.
Despite a lawyer’s plea to defer a jail sentence so Leilani Sialap…
Southern Voice Online – Zack Hudson
Despite gay support, promoters say venue was losing money
Charlie Brown took the stage at Charlie Brown?s Cabaret in Underground Atlanta on Sunday night, just as he has so many times over the past 16 months, se…
The Korea Times – Shim Sun-ah
Seoul (Yonhap) – At close to midnight, men can be seen entering a cafe in Seoul’s bustling university district, Sinchon, in groups of two or three.
While at first glance it may appear to be an ordinary cafe, its cust…
UKGayNews.org.uk
New York ? As people in more than 50 countries today mark the International Day against Homophobia, Human Rights Watch named to a ?hall of shame? five public officials who have actively promoted prejudice against lesbian, gay, bisex…
Mainichi Daily News
KOBE — In a rare move, a 7-year-old boy diagnosed as suffering a gender identity disorder has been enrolled in a public elementary school as a girl, the local board of education said Thursday.
The public elementary school sit…
UKGayNews.org – IRIN UN humanitarian news and information service
Kathmandu, Nepal ? There?s no signboard outside the simple white-washed building at the end of the road ? and neighbours have little idea of who its occupants are.
But in this trad…
247Gay.com
Tempe, AZ – Sigma Phi Beta Fraternity’s national board of directors enacted a policy at its May 14th meeting in Tucson which allows transgender students to join the Fraternity. The policy goes above and beyond any other known policy of a…
PinkNews.co.uk – Marc Shoffman
Iraqi gays are claiming success following the decision of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani to remove from his website a fatwa calling for the killing of homosexuals in the “worst, most severe way possible”.
The remova…
New Straits Times – Malaysia News – Chok Suat Ling
As the debate on effeminate men heats up in Parliament and the media, Malaysians should try to understand them, writes CHOK SUAT LING.
IN the Dewan Rakyat last Thursday, Jasin Member of Parliamen…
LA Times – Scott Gold and Hemmy So – Times Staff Writers
Would the state of California “out” Abe Lincoln, now that a controversial biography has suggested that he not only changed the course of a nation but also shared a bed with men?
Would Elean…