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TheAge.com.au – Kate Hagan
A 33-year-old man living as a woman has made a court bid for his parents to pay for sexual reassignment surgery as part of a claim for “adult child maintenance”.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been …
Jossip.com – posted by Drew
Sexual assault charges dropped
Jeffery Epstein, the former Dalton teacher and finance manager who’s been reduced to eating a lot of candy in jail, will be pleased to note that the 2007 sexual assault charges against hi…
AmericanChronicle.com – Karen Franklin, Ph.D.
It’s a tried-and-true formula:
Do a quick-and-dirty study or two. Find a huge, perhaps escalating, problem that has heretofore been overlooked. Create a product label (aka diagnosis). And, voila! The…
OnTopMag.com – By On Top Magazine Staff
Comedienne/chat-show host Ellen DeGeneres announced she was gay on the front cover of Time magazine in 1997 with the headline, “Yup, I’m Gay.” Many blamed the decision to come out for stalling her skyrocketing…
NewsShopper.co.uk
The reaction Mary Murdoch gets from walking down her street is very different to how she was greeted in Japan.
Born Malcolm Murdoch, the 68-year-old says she recently became the first transsexual geisha on a visit to Kyoto.
M…
Edition.CNN.com – By Mallory Simon – CNN
(CNN) — Public school officials in Chicago, Illinois, are recommending approval of a “gay-friendly” high school because harassment and violence are causing gay students to skip class and drop out at alarming…
BLog.Cleveland.com – Posted by Chuck Yarborough – Plain Dealer Reporter
Middlefield – A security camera video captured the last hour and 40 minutes of James M. Mason’s life as the frail 73-year-old battled with his much younger, transgender wife in …
NYTimes.com – By Stuart Elliott
For the first time since the Advertising Council was founded in 1942, the organization – which directs and coordinates public service campaigns on behalf of Madison Avenue and the media industry – is introducing ads m…
MarketWatch.com – Kathy Callori
Mahwah, NJ (PRNewswire via COMTEX) — The Human Rights Campaign has declared October 11th as National Coming Out Day.
On this day, members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community — and those wh…
AlertNet.org – Source: Human Rights Watch
Bishkek – Lesbian and bisexual women and transgender men face violent abuse, including rape, in Kyrgyzstan, both in family settings and from strangers on the street, Human Rights Watch said in a report issue…