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.
TVNZ.co.nz – AAP
Looking to bring back a unique souvenir from your next overseas holiday?
How about some new breasts from Brazil, a yummy mummy make over from Thailand or perhaps that designer vagina you have always wanted from Malaysia – a steal…
DallasVoice.com – By Daniel A. Kusner – LifeStyle Editor
Ohau — an American cultural paradise for ’tween genders
Waikiki – On a recent Sunday night, a white convertible pulls up to the porte cochère of the Outrigger Hotel. In the front seat are S…
HuffingtonPost.com – Anna Kirey
Very few people can immediately place where I am from. When I say “Kyrgyzstan” I have to add: a mountainous country in Central Asia, once part of the Soviet Union, that is predominantly Muslim. It sounds like the midd…
EconomicTimes.IndiaTimes.com
Sanand: Sanand is a mixed bag of surprises. The land is just as rich in tales of supernatural as in grit and determination. One such intriguing story comes from Charal village, just 8 km away from Nano site. Legend has i…
Hindu.com – K.P.M. Basheer
Kochi: After a quarter century of tortured life as a woman trapped in a man’s body in a Kerala village, Geeta had fled to Chennai 16 years ago.
There, a small group of Hijras took her in. They sheltered her, burned her …
TaipeiTimes.com – By Noah Buchan – Staff Reporter
With rigidly defined gender roles, unsupportive parents and a largely unsympathetic public, Taiwan’s transgenders must turn to the Internet as the only means to find lovers, friends, information and …
DailyMail.co.uk – By Bruce Parry
For his stunning new BBC2 documentary series, Amazon, explorer Bruce Parry and his production team travelled down the the world’s greatest river to meet some of the extraordinary people that live alongside it. Here, …
ZMag.org – By Kerem Oktem – Source: Middle East Report
What happens when almost 3,000 men, women and transgender people march down the main street of a major Muslim metropolis, chanting against patriarchy, the military and restrictive public morals,…
ATMSTravelNews.com – For Immediate Release
Company: Myths and Mountains
Contact: Allie Almario
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Incline Village, , Nev. – Nehru said, “The diversity of India is tremendous, it is obvious; it lies on the surf…
Entertainment.TimesOnline.co.uk – Salman Rushdie
In his contribution to Aids Sutra, a collection of essays about the HIV/Aids problem in India, Salman Rushdie reports on the culture of the hijra
According to Greek mythology, Hermaphroditus, the c…