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Tehelka.com – With inputs from PC Vinoj Kumar
Tamil Nadu’s recent addition of a third gender column on ration card applications is one of a series of much needed, progressive reforms that benefit hijras, says Morgan Harrington
Discriminated agai…
PRNewsWire.com – Source: Justice Resource Institute
Verizon Foundation and IBM Partner to Help Youths Prepare for GED; JRI’s Boston GLASS Uses New Technology Tools
Boston – PRNewswire – It’s tough enough to be a teenager today, but for Boston tee…
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…
TCDailyPlanet.net – By Andy Birkey , Minnesota Monitor
Researchers, physicians and community leaders met at the University of Minnesota earlier this week to discuss issues of public health and health care access in Minnesota’s LGBT community. The e…
PressTelegram.com – By Tracy Manzer, Staff writer
Police say they arrested her and a man after watching sales at three places.
Long Beach – A transsexual mother of a 16-year-old girl was arrested late Tuesday, capping a weeklong undercover invest…
Queerty.com
Social conservatives have no sense of fun! Or, really, sense.
The Christian Right in Wisconsin raised a stink last week after hearing that Reedsburgh’s Pineview Elementary had encouraged kids to cross-dress as party of a special “Wack…
DailyHerald.com – By James Fuller – Daily Herald Staff – Contact writer
They’ve chased star athletes. They’ve pursued valedictorians. Now colleges and universities are vying for the attention of gay, lesbian and transgender students.
Several Illi…
PrideSource.com – by Todd A. Heywood – Capitol Correspondent
‘Learned the degree of pain’ from community
Ann Arbor – Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign in Washington D.C., told BTL last week that he and his organization stood b…
365Gay.com – by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
(Detroit, Michigan) Detroit has become the latest city to ban discrimination on the basis of gender identity. City council voted 8-1 to amend the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance which already bars disc…
YaleDailyNews.com – Raymond Carlson – Staff Reporter
The Ivy League tide of gender-neutral housing may prove too powerful for any Ancient Eight school to resist for much longer — and that includes Yale.
Of the eight schools in the Ivy League, onl…