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StraitsTimes.com – AFP
Bangkok – Thailand’s international transvestite beauty pageant has been postponed indefinitely amid political turmoil in the capital, organisers told AFP on Thursday.
The Miss International Queen contest – a staple of the t…
Synapse.UCSF.edu – By Shane Snowdon – Contributing Writer
Did you know UCSF has a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Center? Yes – and it’s the only one in a health-care setting anywhere in the world, although many undergrad campuses have an…
EdgeBoston.com – HRC
The Human Rights Campaign today released its Congressional Scorecard for the 110th Congress, which rates members of Congress on their support for issues of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality.
For each two year se…
WLBT.com – By Julie Straw
Clinton, MS (WLBT) – Gay rights activists are met with defiance from administrators at Mississippi College. Soulforce visited the campus last year and are back again with a message of acceptance for gay and transgender stu…
Independent.co.uk – By David McNeill in Bangkok
Lithe, peach-skinned and demure, Arttasit is the kind of woman who would turn heads on any college campus, except that he is not a woman; not yet.
The 21-year-old catering student attends class in T…
LiverpoolDaily.co.uk – by Richard Down, Liverpool Daily Post
A Transsexual truck driver who was forced out of her job when she started dressing as a woman has been awarded more than £20,000.
But Vikki-Marie Gaynor, from Wirral, told the Daily Pos…
MarketWatch.com – Business Wire
San Francisco (Business Wire): Aetna and the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA) today announced that Aetna is the first health benefits company in the U.S. to link its online provider directory — DocFind(R) -…
Chron.com – By Jeannie Kever – Houston Chronicle
UH is the first school in Texas to offer a minor concentration in GLBT studies
Melanie Pang has participated in educational events and political theater as a leader in a University of Houston campu…
NYDailyNews.com – By Richard Vanderford – Daily News Writer
Andy Salzer smiled broadly as he snatched a size-16, sequined dress off the rack. “It’s a huge-a– dress,” he said, “Perfect!”
Salzer, a fashion designer from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, sai…
BizJournals.com – San Francisco Business Times – by Chris Rauber
The San Francisco-based Gay and Lesbian Medical Association said Monday it’s giving its 2008 Achievement Awards to Kaiser Permanente, the Lambda Legal advocacy group and Judy Bradford,…