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Independent.ie – By David McWilliams
On Sunday nights, ‘The George’ on Dublin’s George’s Street hosts a drag queen evening. Shirley Temple Bar, of telebingo fame, MCs the spectacle. The bingo is followed by a drag-fest, where wannabe drag queens ge…
SFBayTimes – Dan Baird
First off, I’d like to make a correction to my last column. The name of the person in charge of GUNS, the club where I DJ-ed, is David Mills; Mitchell is his middle name. David Mills was absolutely charming and graciously host…
BrisbaneTimes.com – Liau Y-Sing
When Khartini Slamah first came out as a transexual, he was a dutiful Muslim son by day and a prostitute by night, working on the streets of the Malaysian capital.
The option of sex change surgery was out of the qu…
TimesOnline.co.uk – Carolynne Wheeler in Jerusalem
For four years it stood as an oasis of tolerance in Jerusalem: a place where drag queens, ultra-Orthodox Jews and Palestinians could hang out, dance and drink pints, side by side.
But Shushan, th…
BangkokPost.com – by Pichaya Svasti
An Australian academic is trying to preserve the story of Thailand’s gay, lesbian and transgendered communities in the face of official opposition
About 2,000 books, magazines, photo albums, video tapes, movie …
AsiaMedia.ucla.edu – By Anton Muhajir
Kuta – Yustine (not her real name) says she feels more comfortable in the glittering Seminyak area near Kuta in Bali than in her hometown in Java.
A member of Bali’s gay and transvestite community, she has be…
DigitalJournal.com – By dpa Correspondents
Entire streets in Bangkok are dedicated to gay bars, the city’s hospitals have become an international mecca for sex-change surgeries and Thailand’s TV and film scene abound with “katoey,” or transvestit…
Stuff.co.nz – Reuters
When Khartini Slamah first came out as a transexual, he was a dutiful Muslim son by day and a prostitute by night, working on the streets of the Malaysian capital.
The option of sex change surgery was out of the question in …
Hindu.com
Accolades earned as a kid playing Vishnupriya did not prevent Ramesh Das getting abused as he grew older.
Traditionally, folk and classical theatre forms in India have always been out of bounds for women. Consequently, female roles have…
Workers.org – By Leslie Feinberg
Lavende & red, part 105
‘Butterflies on the Scaffold’ (‘Mariposas en el andamio’), a 1996 documentary, offered a profoundly thoughtful and moving account of how Cuban women construction workers literally made room…