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IndyBay.org – by DJ Rubble
The theme of this year’s March was “Marching for a Gender Inclusive ENDA”; hear over 30 minutes of audio on human rights issues: Maxine Dugan organizing for the legalization of prostitution in San Francisco; Vivien and Bec…
CJNews.com – By Sheri Shefa, Staff Reporter
Toronto – This year’s Gay Pride Week in Toronto attracted more than one million people, and among those who celebrated the event was a small student group representing Jewish members of the gay communi…
WashingtonPost.com – By Ann E. Marimow – Washington Post Staff Writer
Gay and transgender rights advocates said today that Montgomery County’s Board of Elections miscalculated the number of signatures required to challenge a law that prohibits discr…
Newsday.com – By Colleen Long – Associated Press Writer
New York – A priest who runs a shelter specializing in outreach to homeless transgender youths was beaten with construction equipment and paint cans by a group of teenagers in a possible hate…
PalmCenter.org – Press Contact: Nathaniel Frank, Senior Research Fellow, The Palm Center, University of California, Santa Barbara
Amidst Inaction by Politicians, Former Pentagon Brass Call for Repeal
Santa Barbara, CA – A new study released today…
Time.com – By Hannah Beech
Life can be complicated enough for members of the transgender community – the last thing they need is to have to choose between two bathroom doors: male or female. Fortunately for students at the Kampang high school in rur…
Canada.com – Katie DeRosa, Times Colonist
It might be the only day of the year in Victoria where one can see men dressed in Carmen Miranda-inspired headdresses and elaborate drag costumes, a band of leather-clad biker chicks riding motorcycles and c…
XTra.ca – Krishna Rau
Toronto MDs could rewrite definitions for pyschiatric association’s mental health guide
The appointment of two Toronto doctors to a committee revising medical definitions of gender identity has infuriated trans people across…
BayWindows.com – by Ethan Jacobs – Staff reporter
When Nick Teich created a free account on the online personals site BiDatingNow.com last week, he decided to disclose that he is transgender. Perhaps he shouldn’t have.
“They say, tell us about yo…
Reuters.com
Vilnius (Reuters) – Lithuania has paid 40,000 euros ($63,140) for a citizen to undergo a full sex change operation abroad because the government missed a July 1 deadline, set by a European court, to adopt a domestic gender reassignment l…