National and International transgender news articles at URNotAlone.com transgender site. The most recent news articles appear at the top of the listings. See National and International transgender news article excerpts below and click “Read More” for the stories that interest you most.
Queerty.com
A sad story Queerty readers may be able to help with: Drag queen Anna Warhola was just finishing up her performance at the Charlie Horse in San Francisco when she suffered a heart-attack and respiratory arrest. Patrons did not immediatel…
OregonLive.com – by Kimberly A.C. Wilson, The Oregonian
Silverton – By the numbers, the counterprotesters outside City Hall greatly overwhelmed the protesters who inspired them: three young women and a man from a Kansas church, here to register thei…
SheWired.com – by Jacob Anderson-Minshall
Last weekend, as people filled streets across America to protest the passage of numerous anti-gay marriage measures, one could easily conclude that the ban on same-sex marriages is currently the single grea…
EUObserver.com – Leigh Phillips
Brussels – Attitudes towards gays and lesbians in much of Europe and around the world may have made remarkable advances over the last 20 years, even if some regions of the EU are more hospitable than others. But for t…
DailyCamera.com – By Laura Snider
Last week, Duanna Johnson was shot execution-style in Memphis. In February, 15-year-old Lawrence King was murdered by a classmate in California. Last summer, Angie Zapata was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher…
EBAR.com – by Cynthia Laird
The mother of a transgender woman spoke of her unconditional love for her daughter and the names of 26 people who died this year were read during an emotional Transgender Day of Remembrance observance in Oakland Sunday, N…
EdgeBoston.com
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund [TLDEF] calls upon the Syracuse [N.Y.] Police Department and Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick to fully investigate the death of Lateisha Green, 22, whose legal name w…
MyEyewitnessNews.com – Contributor: Shane Myers
Memphis, TN — Former Memphis Police Officer Bridges McRae has been indicted on a civil rights violation in the beating of transgendered woman Duanna Johnson.
According to the indictment, McRae is a…
AgoraCosmopolitan.com – by Gina Lance
I’m always asked by other crossdressers at conventions or nightclubs why we as transgendered people are not as newsworthy as they think we should be. “How come you don’t see more crossdressers being interviewed …
UKGayNews.com
Government is directed to address discrimination – and even same-sex marriage
Kathmandu – There were tears of joy in the Nepali LGBT community today when the Supreme Court published its full written decision on a petition demanding …