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Time.com – By Pelin Turgut
Istanbul – Better known for her tabloid love affairs, plastic surgery and husky voice, transsexual Turkish diva Bulent Ersoy makes the unlikeliest political activist. Yet she has caused a storm of outrage by becoming the …
WashBlade.com – Trenton Straube
Protests over movement’s priorities have ‘no impact’ on fundraising efforts
New York – The Human Rights Campaign’s gala New York fundraiser unfolded last weekend in typical fashion: Inside, a swank crowd of almost …
KMBC.com
Missouri Woman Filed License As Man
Carroll County, MO – Two Missouri women said their marriage isn’t illegal because one of the women is physically a man.
Mishell Blomenkamp used to be Michael Blomenkamp. She had her name changed, bu…
BaltimoreSun.com – By Rona Marech – Sun reporter
When John Waters’ 1988 film Hair- spray first came out on video, a staff member at Lambda Rising bookstore bought a passel of aerosol hairspray cans at the drugstore across the street and asked the fi…
SSONet.com.au – by Harley Dennett
A Centrelink decision to reduce a pre-operative transsexual lesbian’s pension because she was in a relationship with another woman has been overturned by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
Samantha Scafe lodged…
TurkishDailyNews.com.tr – TDN with wire dispatches
Istanbul – An Istanbul prosecutor has launched an inquiry into statements made by Turkey’s most popular transsexual singer for alienating the public from military service, a crime punishable by six …
NashuaTelegraph.com – Jon A. Hal
I would like to thank Gary Vincent, The Telegraph’s reader advocate, for his carefully written column Sunday, but I have to disagree with his logic on whether the story should receive as much “play.” (Page B-3: “Tran…
MaineLincolnCountyNews.com – By Sherwood Olin
An investigator for the Maine Human Rights Commission has determined that Camp Kieve employees in Nobleboro discriminated against a transgender Pennsylvania man.
The investigator’s report will be part…
Media.www.DailyNorthwestern.com – Michael Gsovski
It’s been nearly five years since psychology Prof. Michael Bailey’s “The Man Who Would be Queen” was published, but it is still generating a steady stream of controversy. Earlier tussles have dissect…
MiamiHerald.TypePad.com
Equality Florida news release:
Community Outraged Over Continuing Epidemic of Hate Violence
Ft. Lauderdale) Today, Equality Florida and the coalition Transgender Equality Rights Initiatives (TERI) expressed outrage over…