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IOL.co.za – Steve Connor
The case of Caster Semenya, the South African teenager who ran to victory in the women’s 800m final of the world championships in Berlin and walked into a storm of controversy, highlights the sensitive and sometimes ambiguou…
TheAustralian.News.com.au – Article from: Australian Associated Press
The Exclusive Brethren religious sect has publicly apologised for offending sexual minorities in Tasmania.
The apology, published today in Tasmania’s three daily newspapers, fo…
Google.com/HostedNews – AP
Syracuse, N.Y. – An upstate New York man has been sentenced to the maximum 25 years in prison for the hate crime killing of a transgender woman.
Dwight DeLee was found guilty of manslaughter last month for shooting Late…
Advocate.com – By Brandon Voss
Wendy Williams is known for using gay catchphrases and dressing like a drag queen (her words). But a drag queen in the studio audience of her TV show? That’s a completely different story.
Radio shock jock Wendy Will…
Queerty.com
Should a single male staff member who dresses in drag be enough to lift Southern Methodist University out of the rankings of homophobic universities? Joe Hoselton, aka Jenna Skyy, certainly thinks so.
Hoselton is the graduate admissio…
NYUNews.com – Nandini Balial
A Singaporean legal scholar who was scheduled to teach classes at the NYU School of Law this fall has withdrawn from the invitation following campuswide controversy over her apparent opposition of some gay rights.
Pr…
HollywoodReporter.com – By Nellie Andreeeva
Report evaluates networks’ LGBT inclusiveness
HBO tops the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s third annual Network Responsibility Index, a study that evaluates the quantity, quality and diversi…
Officer.com – Perry Chiaramonte, Jami Schram and Reuven Fento – Courtesy of The New York Post
New Your, N.Y. — A Queens cop was wounded when he waded into an ugly battle between a transsexual and her lover yesterday and a gun accidentally discharge…
CBS3.com – Wayne Parry, Associated Press Writer
Little Egg Harbor Township, N.J. (AP) – When word got out that Mr. McBeth, a popular substitute teacher at two southern New Jersey school districts was about to come back to class as Miss McBeth, it c…
KoreaTimes.co.kr – By Kim Rahn – Staff Reporter
Is sex by birth a qualification for a beauty pageant?
It appears not, as a male-turned-female transsexual has passed the preliminary stage of the 2009 Super Model Contest.
Choi Han-bit, 23, wa…