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BayWindows.com – by Ethan Jacobs – Staff Reporter
The House Committee on Education and Labor is tentatively scheduled to hold a hearing on employment discrimination against transgender people on June 26 — the first congressional hearing to focus pr…
WorldNetDaily.com – WorldNetDaily
‘We’re going to see this all over the nation. This was a trial balloon’
In Massachusetts, the first U.S. state to make same-sex marriages official, the next wave of the war over sexual identity and morality has b…
PR-Inside.com – AP
Bangkok, Thailand (AP) – Some students at a secondary school in rural northeastern Thailand want the new restroom doors painted pink, with purple flowers planted nearby – not the girls’ toilets, nor the boys’.
It’s the transves…
BudapestTimes.hu – Written by Agnes Lukacs
March cancelled, reinstated within 24 hours
Police chief Gábor Tóth last Thursday gave in to public pressure and granted permission for the Gay Pride parade planned for 5 July after banning it a day…
RHRealityCheck.org – Pamela Merritt
Cuba has approved free sex change operations for transgender citizens. What a stark contrast to the reality here in the United States.
June is LGBT Pride Month and, along with the festivals and parades, we hav…
CampKC.com – by Jamie Tyroler
Proving identity can stymie all sorts, from adoptees to transgender people. Stricter ID laws would make the consequences more dire.
Most people probably give little thought to having an accurate driver’s license, pa…
Chron.com – By David Crary – AP National Writer – The Associated Press
New York – As more state and local governments extend anti-bias protections to transgender people, fierce opposition is surfacing. In Colorado, conservatives contend a new state…
BayWindows.com – by Tynan Power – Bay Windows Contributor
Observers on Main Street in Northampton might have been surprised to see a Pride march passing by on June 7. After all, the city’s 27-year-old LGBT Pride march was held back on May 3. But thi…
NDTV.com – Lalit K Jha
(United Nations) An Indian eunuch Laxmi Narayan Tripathi is fighting for the rights and respect of the global transgender community during the ongoing United Nations high level meeting on AIDS.
After meeting a large number …
AllAfrica.com – Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC)
Press Release – The arrest of three sexual rights activists during a peaceful demonstration to raise awareness about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues shows the Ugandan governme…