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WashingtonBlade.com – By Lou Chibbaro Jr. – Washington Blade
Visitors from 29 states ask lawmakers to oppose gay-only ENDA
Nearly 200 transgender rights activists and their supporters descended on Washington from 29 states this week to urge Congr…
BurlingtonFreePress.com – By Molly Walsh, Free Press Staff Writer
A small group of students gathered in Burlington’s City Hall Park on Wednesday by a rainbow-colored banner and clusters of balloons. They exchanged hugs and laughs, but the gathering …
SXNews.e-p.net.au – Katrina Fox & Rachel Cook
GLBT advocates have slammed the apparent non-inclusion of trans representatives in the 2020 Summit this weekend.
The summit includes a number of people championing the cause of gay and lesbian people …
TimesOfIndia.IndiaTimes.com
Thanjavur: Tamil Nadu might be the first in the country to give an estimated one lakh transexuals in the state a ‘T’ status. But society continues to harass the third gender as was evident in Thanjavur, where the house of…
News.XinhuaNet.com
Beijing (Xinhua) – Ying Ning, the 33-year-old Tianjin man who became a woman through transsexual operations, got a new Chinese ID card as a female on Tuesday.
“I am so excited to receive it after a month-long wait,” said Ying, …
MiamiHerald.com – By Diana Moskovitz
The reward has grown to $5,000 in case of Simmie L. Williams Jr., 17-year-old Fort Lauderdale boy who was gunned down earlier this year.
Almost two months later, there are few witnesses and few leads into who …
YemenTimes.com – By Hamed Thabet
Sana’a – An eight-year-old girl decided last week to go the Sana’a West Court to prosecute her father, who forced her to marry a 30-year-old man.
Nojoud Muhammed Nasser arrived at court by herself on Wednesday, Ap…
SETexasRecord.com – By David Yates
A Jefferson County refinery worker has sued his former employer, alleging the company discriminated against him because he is transgender.
Gerald Jeanmard, a male in the process of gender transition, claims KT M…
Canada.com – Matthew Ramsey – Canwest News Service
Vancouver – A B.C. Mountie has received informal discipline for posting a dating profile online using a picture of himself in his red serge uniform to find transgendered and transsexual mates.
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FlatHatNews.com – By Devan Barbar, Flat Hat Staff Columnis
Why do people on this campus choose such bizarre events to get upset about?
We are facing economic depression, an ongoing war halfway across the world and an historic presidential race, a…