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blogOut.JustOut.com – by Just Out Staff
The Levi’s brand has announced the launch of its “Give Them Hope Now” campaign in support of the Hetrick-Martin Institute in New York, home of Harvey Milk High School. The campaign’s goal is to help HMI raise …
GayLesbianTimes.com – Associated Press
Philadelphia (AP) – Hundreds of gay-rights demonstrators marched through the streets of the city’s historic center on Sunday carrying rainbow-colored flags and signs calling for equal rights in marriage, in the…
Xtra.ca – Kaj Hasselriis
Manitoba’s NDP government refused a proposal to fully fund sex reassignment surgeries for trans people, Xtra.ca has learned. The policy would have brought the province in line with British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec by cov…
FloridaBlade.com – By Dmitry Rashnitsov
The owner of one of South Florida’s only transgender bars was found dead in his Hallandale Beach home of an accidental drug overdose in late March, according to police reports filed this week.
60-year-old S…
SanMarcosMercury.com – Submitted by Brad Rollins
Texas State University graduate student in playwriting Teresa Stankiewicz earned a trip to the Universidad de Huelva, Spain May 6, where she presented a research paper.
Her paper, “Straight-jacket …
SMH.com.au – Richard Hill
Bonnie Eick (Letters, May 5) presents a view on gender dysphoria disturbingly reminiscent of earlier attitudes towards homosexuality. Pursuing it as a disorder rather than simply a difference, psychiatrists sought to treat …
Feministing.com – By Julia Serano
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has been called the “bible of mental illness” because it lists and defines all of the “official” psychiatric diagnoses according to the American Psychi…
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee authorities have invalidated the 18-month-old marriage of a transgender couple, saying the state considers both to be men.
Jo T. Rittenberry, 46, was born a man and claims to have had sex reassignment surgery in Canada…
www2.Canada.com – Sandra Thomas, Vancouver Courier
There was a time West End resident Christopher Hunt was so busy that when he woke up in the morning he didn’t know whether to put on a suit for his job at the Royal Bank, or slide into a little sequ…
WalesOnline.co.uk – by David Williamson, Western Mail
New funding for sex change therapy in Wales will save lives, it was claimed yesterday.
Men and women who feel trapped in a body of the wrong gender now stand a better chance of getting gender …