Strength in the face of adversity

BuffaloNews.com – By Jane Kwiatkowski – News Staff Reporter

Nearly three years ago Camille Hopkins traveled to Montreal for sex reassignment surgery, a critical step on the road to becoming a woman.

At age 57, Hopkins, a city employee, has become…

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In support of drag queens everywhere

Suntimes.com – Paige Wiser

Straight girl tells all about life as a backup dancer

Every great comedian needs a straight man to play off. And every great drag queen needs a straight woman to back her up.

That’s where Heather Haneman comes in: s…

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Gender is not a hobby

Media.www.LeProvoc.com – Kristen Miller

Gender is not a hobby – It is a fact for Finney Boylan

Gliding across the stage in a floral dress and a black blazer, Jennifer Finney Boylan compared her surgical procedure in 2001 to “the feeling of leavin…

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I Was a Teenage Drag Queen: Part 2

Valley24.com – By Robert Joki

In exactly two weeks time, Youngstown’s guilty little holiday pleasure, How The Drag Queen Stole Christmas, will open at the Oakland Center for the Arts. In tribute to what will be a delightfully devilish train wreck o…

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Cry inclusive

TheHinduBusinessLine.com – Divya Trivedi

With very little support coming their way, transgenders have decided to speak up for their rights.

“We have a lot of talent and entrepreneurship which is unrecognised. When some of our people apply for job…

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Transgender activist shares struggle

BadgerHerald.com – by Mary Duke

A transgender activist said Wednesday there is an enormous misunderstanding about what the term “transgender” actually means.

Jessica Janiuk spoke to University of Wisconsin students Wednesday about her difficult j…

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All that Glitters

SSONet.com.au – As told to Sunny Burns

In 1970, my Muslim parents migrated from a little village in Turkey to start a family in Sydney. I was born in August a year later. I fell into performing by fate when, in the first year of high school, I went …

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