Travel and culture articles for the transgender community by URNotAlone.com. New articles appear at the top of the listings. See travel and culture article excerpts below and click “Read More” for any of the topics that interest you.
NYTimes.com – By Sewell Chan
The Stonewall rebellion of 1969, in which protesters clashed with the authorities after a violent police raid on a Greenwich Village bar, is a defining moment in the history of the gay rights movement. Now New York City …
News.AsiaOne.com – By Paisarn Likhitpreechakul
There’s a myth, especially among foreigners, that Thailand is “tolerant” towards gays and transgenders. After all, hardly a day goes by without one seeing ladyboys or katoeys (male-to-female transgender…
TheFrisky.com – Posted by: Catherine
If you haven’t noticed, we’re a bit obsessed with women throughout history. National Women’s History Month may be over, but we can’t help but to keep highlighting interesting women from the past. My sister got me…
CafeBabel.com – by Anna Irini Antonakis
Where does man begin and woman end? It’s not an easy one to answer. What determines our sexual identity? Mode of behaviour? Our sexual partner? Or the midwife in the hospital when we are born? If there really …
TimesOfIndia.IndiaTimes.com – Insiya Amir, TNN
By day, they haunt traffic light junctions and accost visibly uncomfortable urban commuters for money. By night, they are there again, this time soliciting male customers. It’s not the kind of life anyo…
AllAfrica.com – Audrey Mbugua
Outlining the essential differences between sex and gender, Audrey Mbugua discusses the damaging general incomprehension of transsexualism within Kenyan society. Drawing upon personal experience of prejudice in the fiel…
PattayaDailyNews.com – PDN Staff
For most Americans, their first encounter with transgender individuals may have been when they were stationed abroad in the military, in such places as Iraq, Saudi Arabia or Kuwait, where the phenomenon, especially o…
Reuters.com – By Mica Rosenberg
Juchitan, Mexico (Reuters) – Attaching flowers to a ribbon headdress, pulling a lace slip under an embroidered skirt and draping a necklace of gold coins over his head, Pedro Martinez puts the finishing touches on the…
RadioNetherlands.nl – By Nicola Fell
International identifies at least 83 countries where homosexuality is illegal. 34 of them are predominantly Muslim. In Malaysia, a country seen as moderately Islamic, the punishment for an ‘unnatural’ sexual act …
GuardianWeekly.co.uk
In the city of Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, attitudes towards gender roles and sexual orientation are comparatively relaxed. But despite the thriving gay and transvestite scene, members of the cross-dressing community, known…