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EdmontonSun.com – By Andrew Hanon, Sun Media
“This,” says Kris Wells, “could be the next Vriend case.”
The provincial government is about to drag all Albertans into yet another costly, shameful and needless legal battle – this time over the deci…
DenverPost.com – By Monte Whaley – The Denver Post
Prosecutors are worried that jury selection in next week’s trial of a man accused of killing a transgender woman in Greeley in July has become a lot more complicated.
That’s because 50 groups spo…
PrideSource.com – by Jessica Carreras
Royal Oak – The first ever international Transgender Day of Visibility was held March 31, and at the epicenter was metro Detroit – where the idea for the day began.
Local events for the day included a panel a…
StyleWeekly.com – by Amy Biegelsen
Post Proposition 8, six months after a historic election, Richmond’s gay community slowly comes out of the closet.
Only a third of the 22 drag shows scheduled have come to pass. Music and cigarette smoke spill …
CNSNews.com – By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer
(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama has named to the federal government’s faith-based initiative a gay-rights activist who, last month, described Pope Benedict XVI and certain Catholic bishops as “discred…
News.Yahoo.com – By Dave Gram, Associated Press Writer
Montpelier, Vt. – Vermont on Tuesday became the fourth state to legalize gay marriage – and the first to do so with a legislature’s vote.
The House recorded a dramatic 100-49 vote – the minim…
OnTopMag.com – By On Top Magazine Staff
An Onondaga County, New York grand jury has ruled the murder of a transgender woman was motivated by hate, possibly adding 5 years to the murderer’s prison sentence, News 10 Now reports.
Twenty-two-year-old…
blogs.HoustonPress.com – By Olivia Flores Alvarez
More than three years ago cinematographer/director PJ Raval heard about a small town in Colorado that was “the sex change capital of America.” Intrigued, he contacted the doctor, herself a transsexua…
TimesOfIndia.IndiaTimes.com – A Selvaraj, TNN
Chennai: When 16-year-old Vinoth, a class 9 dropout, disappeared from his house in Kovalam in 2006, his parents searched long and hard, in vain.
In March 2009, he surfaced as Trisha,’ a transgender. …
PrideSource.com – by Todd A. Heywood
Lansing – As reported last week in Between The Lines, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has announced it will eliminate coverage of gender reassignment surgery in its single payer insurance program, effective im…