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  • Jail for handbag fire row woman
  • Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009
  • A woman found guilty of trying to murder a transvestite in Birmingham in a row over a handbag and laptop has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Brazilian Gabryela Passos, 29, of west London, set Ricardo da Silva 25, alight with petrol at his flat in Di...
  • Pride refuses to fall in downturn
  • Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009
  • Thousands of lesbians and gay men are preparing to dance, protest and wear costumes to make your jaw drop at London's Pride on Saturday. But has the economic downturn taken the shine off the colourful annual event? Gay marches have been a feature of...
  • Transexual Turkish Pop Star Avoids Jail Sentence
  • Date: Monday, December 22, 2008
  • Who says freedom of speech is passé in Turkey? Popular Turkish singer/transexual Bulent Ersoy has been acquitted over comments she made on a TV show questioning the country's military campaign against Kurdish separatist guerrillas. Ersoy reportedly...
  • On Obama: Gay Activists Should Keep Quiet
  • Date: Monday, December 22, 2008
  • At a time when gay leaders should be apologizing to and trying to build bridges with African-Americans after exposing their closeted racism towards Blacks over the passage of California's Proposition 8, the gays are at it again. President-elect Barack ...
  • Ex-student claims transgender bias by HACC
  • Date: Monday, December 22, 2008
  • Jamie Nicole Anderson says she just wants to be treated like everyone else. The York woman is a 42-year-old ex-Marine who takes her 11-year-old son to school and never misses his football, baseball or hockey games. Anderson has consistently made the...
  • Transgender woman fights for her identity
  • Date: Monday, December 22, 2008
  • For nearly a year, Catherine Carlson refused to pay the fine for driving with a suspended license because it was issued to both her and the man she used to be. She went to jail four times over the ticket that includes both her legal name and the one sh...
  • Indonesia labors to tackle infections
  • Date: Monday, December 22, 2008
  • Indonesia has been in the spotlight as having the highest number of bird flu infections and fatalities in the world since the deadly virus first appeared here in 2005. And even though Indonesia is said to pose a "moderate risk" in terms of HIV/A...
  • Transvestite pulled knife on abusers
  • Date: Monday, December 22, 2008
  • A TRANSVESTITE who was being ridculed by a group of abusive street drinkers stabbed one of them in the leg. As derogatory remarks were being hurled at Christopher Johns, a woman in the group jumped on his back, grabbed his hair and pulled his earrings ...
  • AIDS: Prognosis for the epidemic in Latin America, the Caribbean
  • Date: Monday, December 1, 2008
  • Today is being observed as World AIDS Day and Flair takes the opportunity to offer perspectives on the implications of the disease for our region. The number of persons infected with the HIV/AIDS virus in 2007 was 33 million worldwide (possibly as high...
  • The Fallout from Prop 8
  • Date: Monday, December 1, 2008
  • With the passage of Proposition 8 on Nov. 4, the California constitution now defines marriage as “between a man and a woman,” excluding and thereby banning same-sex marriages. The proposition’s victory of 52 percent sparked protests stat...
  • The spirit of Christmas is thriving at the Show Palace
  • Date: Monday, December 1, 2008
  • Anyone wishing to see all facets of the holiday season will enjoy this year's edition of A Show Palace Christmas — The Frosty Follies. It has a sweet, original holiday story, traditional yuletide carols, several songs composed by the Show Palace's n...
  • Transgender people united by stories, not bound by tragedy
  • Date: Friday, November 28, 2008
  • Last Thursday marked the 10th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, or TDOR as organizers call it. Held every November, TDOR is a day to remember the individuals who have been victimized because of transgender-motivated hatred. While this day has trad...
  • Secret's out on new Top Town venue
  • Date: Thursday, November 27, 2008
  • THERE may be no more Secrets, but the local club's owner has taken the chance to get herself a striking new venue. As reported, Secrets, a cabaret bar on Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby, had to shut because it was hit by a combination of the smoking ban and n...
  • Transvestite Take over hotel
  • Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008
  • Thousands of transvestites occupied Thailand's international Hotels Wednesday, halting all all blow jobs to the country's already-fragile sex industry as they pressed their demand for a free sex change. The Hotel takeover was one of the boldest gambles...
  • Prop. 8 boycott the only way to motivate
  • Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008
  • I have asked that members and supporters of the GLBT community come together in a nonviolent way to express our outrage over the passage of Proposition 8. This issue was decided on the basis of a fear campaign crafted by its supporters who blatantly li...
  • Tiger Beer transexual ad banned
  • Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008
  • They also felt the posters and adverts in two London newspapers, Metro and London Lite, could cause serious of widespread offence. The advert, which had a small image of a Tiger beer bottle in one corner, showed a transexual wearing black stockings, kn...
  • Tiger Beer ladyboy ad banned for casting sex slur
  • Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008
  • A Tiger Beer poster ad depicting a ladyboy and a bottle of Tiger Beer as two of the Far East's most desirable exports has been banned by the advertising watchdog for linking exports with the sex trade and disrespecting Eastern culture. Meanwhile, Stell...
  • Gender poser
  • Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008
  • While the causes of gender identity disorders are still disputed, one thing is certain – these patients need care and compassion, rather than discrimination. A PERSON’S sex is defined, at the time of birth or soon after, by an inspection of...
  • Time called on unique cabaret club
  • Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008
  • THE smoking ban and the downturn in the economy have forced a Grimsby Club to close its doors. Secrets, known previously as La Rue's and The IT Club, on Cleethorpe Road, has shut. Jennifer Parker, the owner of the cabaret bar, said she was sad to se...
  • Theater review: Take cover, it's Dame Edna
  • Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008
  • The counterprotesters outside City Hall in this Marion County town Monday significantly outnumbered the protesters who inspired them: three young women and a man from a Kansas church, here to register their disdain for the recent election of the nation's ...
  • Mexican transvestite fiesta rocks indigenous town
  • Date: Monday, November 24, 2008
  • 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 traditional costume of Zapotec women in southern Mexico. "...
  • Shelter for youths on the brink
  • Date: Monday, November 24, 2008
  • A controversial Astoria shelter for gay and transgender young people may be forced to shut down if it doesn't receive a quick infusion of cash. The Rev. Louis Braxton, director of Carmen's Place, said donations have plummeted with the tanking economy. ...
  • Allure of the pink consume
  • Date: Monday, November 24, 2008
  • Survey says gay market is an untapped, upwardly mobile gold mine that’s recession-proof LOCAL gay, lesbian, bisexual and transexual (GLBT) wallets are not only an untapped gold mine but are recession-proof, according to a recent survey. Morne ...
  • Grand Jury Indicts Sex, Assaults, Firearm Cases
  • Date: Friday, November 21, 2008
  • The Harnett County Grand Jury has indicted a Dunn man in connection with the prostitution of a 13-year-old girl. The indictment came during this month's grand jury session, which also included indictments for a transvestite assault, a murder and manufa...
  • A safe place for students to be themselves
  • Date: Friday, November 21, 2008
  • Coming out for the first time can be a terrifying experience for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. But for the past two years the University has offered a coming out support group for anyone on campus who wants to start the process. ...
  • Man wanted on multiple fraud and identity theft charges
  • Date: Friday, November 21, 2008
  • The U.S. Secret Service teamed up with East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputies and Kenner police to nab a wanted Baton Rouge man. Deputies say Rodney Roussell applied for loans in Baton Rouge using people's stolen identities. In Kenner, he's accused...
  • Little Britain's David Walliams talks The Boy in the Dress
  • Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008
  • Could there be a more fitting title for Little Britain co-creator and comedy star David Walliams’ first children’s book, The Boy in the Dress? With subtle echoes of David’s infamous character Emily ‘I’m a lady’ Howar...
  • Transgender community seeks end to violence, discrimination
  • Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008
  • Tara Sawyer was punished as a small child for acting like a girl so she tried to live as the boy she appeared to be at birth. But four years ago, the 32-year-old admitted to herself what she knew instinctively as a toddler. Despite her male physical ch...
  • Punishment or revenge?
  • Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008
  • Some time this week a decision will be taken in Parliament as a conscience vote on whether to continue the death penalty. This is not the first time that a vote of this kind is being carried out, because a similar divisional vote was taken in 1979. Of int...
  • Transvestism 'no longer a disease' in Sweden
  • Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
  • Transvestism, along with six other sexual behaviours, will be struck from Sweden’s official list of medical diagnoses starting on January 1st, 2009. * 'Too many doctors can't speak Swedish' (17 Nov 08) * Swedish research bolsters protein-Alzheim...
  • 'Pride campus' may become school for all in need
  • Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
  • Planners of Pride Campus never shied away from touting their proposed high school as a haven for gay youth seeking refuge from sometimes hostile traditional classrooms. But under mounting pressure from ministers and gay activists alike, the name has ch...
  • Transgender author says gays and lesbians both anti-feminine
  • Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
  • ''The first way [to shift cultural connotations of femininity] is by not buying into masculinist presumptions about femininity. In feminism and in the queer community, there's a strong anti-feminine attitude. If you look at the gay male community, masculi...
  • Of Montreal’s ecstatic rave
  • Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
  • Kevin Barnes, Of Montreal’s singer/songwriter, is either a complete genius, freak or lunatic — or all three, which can be attested on “Skeletal Lamping.” The CD showcases his randy falsetto, his African American cross-dressing alte...
  • Essex artist Perry's work in postcard sale
  • Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
  • Essex potter Grayson Perry is among the artists who've contributed to this year's Secret Postcard sale at London's Royal College of Art. The annual event sees some 2,700 works by professional artists and students sold in order to raise money for the co...
  • Tyra Banks gives 'Top Model' contestant Isis sex-change surgery gift
  • Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
  • Tyra Banks gave Isis King, the transgendered contestant "America's Next Top Model," the gift that keeps on giving - a sex change. Enlisting the help of Dr. Marci Bowers, a post-op transexual, Banks gifted King with the pricey surgery which sh...
  • Transgender and Crossdressers: Whose news?
  • Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
  • I’m always asked by other crossdressers at conventions or nightclubs why we as transgendered people are not as newsworthy as they think we should be. “How come you don’t see more crossdressers being interviewed on Oprah or other programs...
  • Prosecutors asked to free Jombang residents
  • Date: Monday, November 17, 2008
  • East Java Provincial Police chief Insp. Gen. Herman Surjadi Sumawiredja has called on the prosecutor's office to release two Jombang residents who were wrongly convicted in a murder case. New scientific evidence has proven Devid Eko Priyanto and Imam K...
  • Williams Institute panel evaluates passage of Proposition 8
  • Date: Monday, November 17, 2008
  • At an event hosted by UCLA’s Williams Institute, nationally recognized experts on gay rights issues met to discuss the future of such rights in the wake of a new presidential administration and the passage of Proposition 8. Panelists reflected on...
  • Gay leaders wary of boycotting Prop. 8's supporters
  • Date: Monday, November 17, 2008
  • Stung by passage of a ban against gay marriage, some California gays and lesbians marshaled online resources to promote boycotts aimed at businesses where key executives financially backed Proposition 8. Leaders in Sacramento's gay community, however, ...
  • Cross-dressing Romeos Motley Crue
  • Date: Monday, November 17, 2008
  • Motley Crue claim dressing up as women improves their love life. The rockers insist wearing dresses and make-up has helped them attract women, and urge other single men to give it a try. Bassist Nikki Sixx said: "The majority of women don't act...
  • My life in women's knickers
  • Date: Friday, November 7, 2008
  • By Tim Lott The images of Helena Christensen in the orgiastic new Agent Provocateur ads sent a bolt of longing through my body. But the desire was not for her lingerie or her lovely pirate ship festooned with decoratively erotic friends, or Helena hers...
  • Time to revisit a pleasant Grimm's tale
  • Date: Friday, November 7, 2008
  • By Serene Ong Pantomimes planted at the year-end production schedules of W!ld Rice are likened to raucous, over-the-top Christmas parties, complete with cross-dressing and loads of physical comedy. Thankfully, the upcoming "Snow White & the Se...
  • Who says cross-dressing's a drag?
  • Date: Friday, November 7, 2008
  • By Mark Shenton "So what if I love each sparkle and each bangle? Why not see things from a different angle?" sings Albin in his great anthem, I Am What I Am, in La Cage Aux Folles. The show broke new ground on Broadway when it premiered th...
  • Take it from Tamil
  • Date: Friday, October 31, 2008
  • Watching Tamil television channels during Deepavali was an educating experience. One could not escape the stark difference from Malayalam television culture. For instance, compare programme content of Malayalam channels on a festival day like Onam. Wha...
  • 'Camp out' at the Z
  • Date: Friday, October 31, 2008
  •  When an audience steps into a movie theater, they’re expected to be quiet and considerate of others. Not so at the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” on Halloween night. The Zeiterion Theatre will play the “Rocky Horror Picture Sho...
  • Woman cheated of gems in bogus marriage deal
  • Date: Friday, October 31, 2008
  • A 27-year-old woman who came here from Ipoh to look for a job in Singa­pore ended up being conned of her jewellery in a bogus marriage deal. The bride, who was in a wedding saree together with her entourage of parents and relatives, only realised t...
  • Homosexuality coming out of closet in Bollywood
  • Date: Friday, October 31, 2008
  • The film industry has had a long tradition of comic sequences or songs featuring effeminate and cross-dressing male stars. One of Sanjeev Kumar’s avatars in the 1970s blockbuster ‘Naya Din Nayee Raat’ was that of an effeminate character....
  • Anti-gay marriage groups look for Ariz. redemption
  • Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008
  • Arizona has been a disappointment to anti-gay marriage activists since 2006, when the state became the first in the nation to reject a ballot measure banning same-sex marriage. Those same opponents are hoping for redemption Tuesday, when Arizona voters...
  • Gay, Disabled, Transexual Love Story Heads to Southport.
  • Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008
  • A play that won rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe is heading to Southport. The play, 'A (Gay Disabled Transexual) Love Story Told to a Ticket Inspector at Alton Towers' is showing as part of Sefton's Diversity Week. The performance of this highly accla...
  • Fabulous Fable
  • Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008
  • If the Brothers Grimm had lived in this day and age, they might have forgone writing creepy folk stories about sugar-addicted children who murder witches and instead created a video game like Fable II. Part tongue-in-cheek fairy tale, part morality pla...
  • India: Stop Abuse of Sexual Rights Activists
  • Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008
  • Police Accused of Violence, Sexual Abuse Against 42 in Bangalore New York, NY - infoZine- Indian authorities should investigate the mass arrests and ill-treatment of activists working on sexual orientation and gender-identity issues in Bangalore and ...
  • Wild: Hobbyhorses welcomed (how Somerville works)
  • Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008
  • Pencils ready? OIK, let’s begin this quickie How Somerville Actually Works quiz: Who is the mayor? What ward do you live in? Who is your alderman? What number do you call to report a concern re city services? What number do you call for emergencies?...
  • Ronaldo hopes for Rio comeback
  • Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
  • Brazilian football superstar Ronaldo said he wants to make his comeback from injury at his hometown club Flamengo Rio de Janeiro next year. 'If everything works out, I'd like to play there,' the 32-year-old who has been on the bench for more than eight...
  • Becks books a flat in a red light district in Milan!
  • Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
  • Ace footballer David Beckham has rented a posh apartment that is five-minute walk away from an infamous red light district in Milan. The soccer-star-turned-model booked the flat for his four-month break from LA Galaxy, where he is expected to reside al...
  • Transexual complains of "phantom penis"
  • Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
  • A transsexual is complaining of a “phantom erectile penis” after having her genitals removed. The 52-year-old – who is now a woman after gender reassignment surgery – believes she can feel her old manhood even after it was cut o...
  • Silent no more
  • Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
  • Frank Carter was once a globe-trotting professional dancer, but his world is smaller now. He battles multiple health problems, walks with a cane and rarely leaves his compact Manhattan apartment. As an 86-year-old gay man, with no family nearby and man...
  • Edie Sedgwick Back Next Month
  • Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
  • Eddie Sedgwick is back to rocking the celebrity-themed pop. Sedgwick, the cross-dressing alter-ego of El Guapo's Justin Moyer, returns next month with Things are Getting Sinister and Sinisterer next month from Dischord Records. Once again, Sedgwick ret...
  • Film delivers message about opening church doors to gays
  • Date: Monday, October 27, 2008
  • New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson spent some time speaking to a church gathering about an issue he knows a great deal about: being an active Christian who is openly gay. Robinson was among those on hand for showing of the award-winning do...
  • Same-sex ruling inspires hope
  • Date: Monday, October 27, 2008
  • A day before Connecticut's gay marriage legislation goes into effect, members of Penn State's community of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their allies (LGBTA) hope Pennsylvania will also consider legalizing gay marriage. "I hope...
  • Experts spot transexual gene
  • Date: Monday, October 27, 2008
  • Scientists in Australia said they have identified a gene which may explain why some people are transsexuals. For decades, there has been debate over the origins of transexuality, with some recent studies indicating that family history and genetics may ...
  • 25 years since Allain campaign bombshell
  • Date: Monday, October 27, 2008
  • Those young enough to believe that the muddy U.S. Senate race between Democratic former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove and Republican interim U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker is the dirtiest political campaign in state history are fortunate in that assessment. Your elders...
  • Gender benders bring hilarity
  • Date: Monday, October 27, 2008
  • Halloween's a-coming, and it'll be time to dress up as your favorite character, creature, inanimate object or abstract idea — or, as some revelers in Waikiki show, simply wear as little as the police deem within public-decency standards. But whil...
  • Georgia Equality backs eight judicial candidates
  • Date: Friday, October 24, 2008
  • Superior Court judges wield the power to define parental relationships, dissolve partnerships and determine gender identity and name changes, yet their races get little attention from media and voters. Family law attorney Barbara Katz routinely appears...
  • State lawmakers move to dismiss lawsuit by transgender employee
  • Date: Friday, October 24, 2008
  • The leaders of Georgia’s legislative branch have asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a transgender employee who claims she lost her job once she announced her intention to transition full time to a woman. Vandiver Elizabeth Glenn ...
  • Wig in one hand, dildo in the other
  • Date: Friday, October 24, 2008
  • “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” a movie with a sometimes obsessive cult following, gets an unusual twist at Yale next week. Directed by Valerie Steinberg ’09, a Yale stage production that draws on both the movie and the original play...
  • 47-year-old cross dresser wants girl costume for college
  • Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008
  • "I am only asking for respect, that they accept me the way I am and that they let me enter the school with the uniform. What I have are Scottish skirts that are used all over the country," the cross dresser told Caracol Radio. Claudia Patrici...
  • Teen novels find huge new audience in minivan set
  • Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008
  • Like many addicts, Paige Ferrari hides her compulsion behind a carefully chosen facade. The 26-year-old has been known to wrap teen novels -- her guiltiest literary indulgence -- inside an issue of The Economist while reading in public. She's not alone...
  • Transgender journey
  • Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008
  • Cindy Thai Tai is ecstatic with her new life, she says. After undergoing gender reassignment surgery in 2005, Tai became one of just a few Vietnamese to speak publicly about her transsexuality. “I make no secret about my gender transformation as ...
  • Lambda Alliance: Individual talks on campus usually positive
  • Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008
  • What is it like to be a homosexual at the University? This question and more were raised in an interactive Q and A session hosted by Lambda Alliance on Monday. More than 40 students attended the discussion, which allowed them to interact with and ask q...
  • Teens in transition
  • Date: Monday, October 20, 2008
  • Shortly after school began in the fall of 2004, an eighth grader named Tye Clark delivered a jolting message to her classmates. "I'm the same person I was last year and the year before, but I am transgender and will now come to school as a boy,&qu...
  • Transcending the Issue of Sexuality
  • Date: Monday, October 20, 2008
  • As students begin to settle in a routine at Columbia—finding their place in campus activities, learning the bureaucracy of the system, and slowly becoming caffeine addicts—a small group of students begins to question where it belongs. Trans...
  • Peter Kay's talent show spoof beats X Factor single
  • Date: Monday, October 20, 2008
  • LONDON - Comedian Peter Kay's spoof talent TV show song 'The Winners Song' has beaten the real deal, last year's 'X Factor' winner Leon Jackson, in the singles chart. Kay's single, taken from his Channel 4 comedy 'Britain's got the Pop Factor ... and P...
  • Waldron does the timewarp again
  • Date: Monday, October 20, 2008
  • Stage production of ‘Rocky Horror Show’ jolts Bloomington during October Does the image of actor Tim Curry in black lingerie and stilettos sound familiar? What about a young Susan Sarandon running around in her bra and underwear, while Riff...
  • Naked DJ wanders street
  • Date: Monday, October 20, 2008
  • A staunch supporter of the People's Alliance for Democracy was found wandering naked near a local market in Chon Buri's Sattahip district last Sunday. Montree Jitwimolprasert, 40, a well-known radio show host in Sattahip and a singer, was repeatedly sh...
  • 12-year-old gets early start in gay activism
  • Date: Friday, October 17, 2008
  • Kaz Felix-Hawver, a seventh grader at Eastern Middle School in Silver Spring, Md., is getting an early start in gay rights activism. In September, Felix-Hawver, 12, began wearing shirts to school bearing slogans like “Gay Pride,” “Hom...
  • Why Matthew?
  • Date: Friday, October 17, 2008
  • It is impossible to comprehend the loneliness Matthew Shepard might have felt as he hung from a rickety fence for almost 18 hours in a barren Wyoming field. If he was conscious during that time on Oct. 7, 1998, he may have wondered if anyone would come to...
  • Police log
  • Date: Friday, October 17, 2008
  • The D.C. police department’s Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit was recently involved in the following cases. The GLLU assists in a wide variety of cases and its involvement does not imply any person or business is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender....
  • Siem Reap Scene...
  • Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008
  • Martin Reeves exhibition cancelled Photographer Martin Reeves is forced to cancel his exhibition at the Angkor National Museum. Celebrated Bangkok-based Brit photographer Martin Reeves has confirmed that he has pulled the plug on an exhibition planned...
  • Kennett to be sued over gay comment
  • Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008
  • A PROMINENT Sydney gay activist plans to sue former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett over comments he made about the sacking of a bisexual trainer from a country football club. Gary Burns, who successfully sued Sydney radio station 2UE over comments made b...
  • Transgender Top Model got local start
  • Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008
  • As a student at Charles Herbert Flowers High School in Springdale, Darrell Walls filled the pages of his notebooks with sketches of shoes, handbags and evening gowns. His preoccupation with fashion made him the target of ridicule from his peers, but has m...
  • Players bring levity to rather leaden Leading Ladies
  • Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008
  • By Ken Ludwig. Directed by Johnna Wright. A Gateway Theatre production. At the Gateway Theatre on Friday, October 10. Continues until October 25 Leading Ladies is supposed to be funny, but the first time I laughed out loud was just after intermission w...
  • Blind transsexual admits harassing carer
  • Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
  • A blind woman seeking a sex change has admitted harassing a support worker by sending her an email describing “violent visions and fantasies”, it has emerged. Jayden Whittal (19), has also pleaded guilty to breach of an injunction and is du...
  • A Boy's Life
  • Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
  • The local newspaper recorded that Brandon Simms was the first millennium baby born in his tiny southern town, at 12:50 a.m. He weighed eight pounds, two ounces and, as his mother, Tina, later wrote to him in his baby book, “had a darlin’ littl...
  • Seeking a home away from homophobia
  • Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
  • In her sister's spacious home in Chelsea, Delmy Berganza sat at the kitchen table one recent day and talked openly about life as a lesbian. In her native El Salvador, she was too terrified to utter the word. In a small flat in Brazil, Genesio Oliveira ...
  • Chicago plans a 'gay-friendly' high school to avoid student harassment
  • Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
  • Public school officials in Chicago, Illinois, are recommending approval of a "gay-friendly" high school because harassment and violence are causing gay students to skip class and drop out at alarming rates. School officials say the proposed s...
  • Students Mark National Coming Out Day
  • Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
  • Dining halls across campus served giant rainbow-covered cakes on Saturday as part of the weekend’s celebration of National Coming Out Day. Marco Chan ’11, co-chair of the Harvard-Radcliffe Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters...
  • Seattle Rep's 'Three Musketeers' is fast and furious
  • Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
  • There's much that is cinematic about Seattle Repertory Theatre's family-friendly stage production of "The Three Musketeers," Alexandre Dumas' vigorous tale of honor and intrigue in the court of Louis XIII. That's not entirely a good thing. ...
  • What is gender identity?
  • Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
  • When a child is born, the midwife or doctor looks at the baby’s genitals and declares it a boy or a girl accordingly. In most cases, this method of assigning gender at birth fits the person without any problems. However, a person’s gender is a...
  • Transgender Arrested, Accused Of Killing Husband
  • Date: Monday, October 13, 2008
  • Middlefield police arrested a transgender woman in connection with the death of her husband. The body of 73-year-old James Mason was found in a pool June 2 at the Middlefield Village Apartments on East High Street. Based on surveillance video, autho...
  • Philip Hensher: Thank God for the Bible Society
  • Date: Monday, October 13, 2008
  • The Bible Society of the West Indies has embarked on an ambitious project to translate the Bible into Jamaican patois, or patwa as it is often spelt. The time and cost, some $60m (£35m), are being underwritten by the United Bible Society, an organis...
  • The naked truth
  • Date: Friday, October 10, 2008
  • If there's one thing film types don't like to make known to the public at large it's the truth behind film festivals. The rule is simple: Don't bite the hand that could give you the prize that you can subsequently highlight in big gold letters when your m...
  • Lovelorn Divas Make `Wig Out!' a Glorious Drag: Jeremy Gerard
  • Date: Friday, October 10, 2008
  • With its spinning disco ball, pumped up music, swooning transvestite divas and thrift-shop glittery setting, ``Wig Out!'' is a charming if raunchy fairy tale. The show, at off-Broadway's adventurous Vineyard Theatre, concerns an epic nightclub showdown be...
  • Paris For President! (Again)
  • Date: Friday, October 10, 2008
  • Paris Hilton was involuntarily swept into this year's Presidential campaign when John McCain compared Barack Obama to the heiress — unfavorably — in a campaign ad titled "Celebrity". But like any good reality-show superstar, she's ta...
  • Hilary Duff's Gay Speech PSA, the Video
  • Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
  • Hilary Duff is lending her celebrity status to star in a new public service announcement (PSA) to teach teens the importance of denouncing anti-gay speech. The PSA, created in partnership with The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), also ...
  • Groups: Calif. Bills 'Squash' Moral Values, Religious Freedom
  • Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
  • Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed three bills last week that some conservatives say will squash moral values and religious freedom. "Under these new laws, foster parents, nurses, doctors, health insurance plans, city and county commissions,...
  • ‘Torch & Twang’ with Capital Pride Singers
  • Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
  • The Great Music on Sundays @5 series, now in its tenth consecutive year, presents The Capital Pride Singers in their annual concert at the UU Meeting House of Provincetown, 236 Commercial Street, at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 12. The Albany-based chorus will ...
  • Gay-friendly high school may open here in 2010
  • Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
  • A "gay-friendly'' Chicago public high school that will weave gay and lesbian "heroes" -- from James Baldwin to Gertrude Stein -- into its curriculum was among 20 new school proposals unveiled Wednesday. The Pride Campus of Social Justice...
  • A life shunned
  • Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
  • SHARMILA BILLOT speaks to Poh Si Teng about her winning short film on transsexuals. FOR a young filmmaker, Poh Si Teng is bold and courageous when it comes to tackling controversial issues. Poh’s short film, Pecah Lobang, was one of the winnin...
  • Schwarzenegger Signs Homosexual-Bisexual-Transsexual Bills
  • Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
  • Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed three bills squashing moral values and religious freedom. By elevating the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda above the rights of everyone else, Schwarzenegger has confirmed his legacy is being the most anti-f...
  • Fired Patton Hospital worker arrested
  • Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
  • A fired Patton State Hospital employee was re-arrested Tuesday after a judge rejected a plea agreement involving a lewd act with a transgender patient under his care. Daniel Ilesanmi Alawoya, 58, was released on his own recognizance Aug. 26 after he st...
  • 'Bug' brings 'shocking word' to BSU
  • Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
  • As students walked by Erin Davies' rainbow-painted Volkswagen Beetle on Ball State University's campus, some of them gave confused looks at the word "fagbug" written on the side. "It seems like it's kind of contradictory," Ball Stat...
  • Ten years after Matthew Shepard, no change
  • Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
  • A decade ago, in October of 1998 in Laramie, Wyo., a bicyclist came across a horrific site. He happened across a young man, beaten and bloodied, who had been tied to a split-rail fence for more than 18 hours. The 21-year-old, who had been left to die, was...
  • GLIBT mental health reforms
  • Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
  • According to the 2006 report Private Lives – A report on the health and well being of GLBTI Australians, nearly three-quarters of those who took part in the survey reported at least one sign of a major depressive episode. It was also found that 1...
  • 'Fireproof' still a box office hit
  • Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
  • In its second week at the box office, "Fireproof" topped $12 million in total receipts and stayed among the top five movies in average theater revenue. Fireproof averaged $4,776 in 852 theaters, according to boxofficemojo.com, placing it at N...
  • Sex Change Hospital
  • Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
  • "Sex Change Hospital" easily could have exploited people in the guise of informing or entertaining television viewers. Instead, this six-part series airing on WETV, is a real-life medical and family drama which primarily focuses on the emotio...
  • A positive change on reality TV
  • Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
  • Levi Valentine had never watched a full season of Tyra Banks's reality show "America's Next Top Model" in the 10 seasons it's been on the air. Then Valentine heard that a transgender woman, Isis Tsunami, was going to be one of the contestants. T...
  • Pay attention to business
  • Date: Monday, October 6, 2008
  • The day before the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. seized the assets of Washington Mutual, the nation's largest savings and loan, WaMu offered some insight into the largest bank failure in history. It would come in the form of the company's last press ...
  • Film challenges what the bible told us
  • Date: Monday, October 6, 2008
  • People with nontraditional sexual orientations (gay, bisexual, transgender) are often marginalized by society for being their true selves. Ignorance, apathy and fear of the unknown are generally to blame for this negative outlook. It can be easy to jud...
  • Transgender Commits Suicide
  • Date: Monday, October 6, 2008
  • A transgender, who became famous for appearing in a show before and after undergoing sex change surgery, committed suicide Saturday, a day after actress Choi Jin-sil's death. Police concluded that the direct cause of the suicide was the breakup with he...
  • Cultures converge in one-man show
  • Date: Friday, October 3, 2008
  • Booty-shaking, musical numbers and a Bob Mackie-designed costume - multiculturalism is a dish best served flamboyantly. A show exploring one man's identity within both the Latino world and the gay community may sound like a serious subject, but Gaytino! a...
  • Backers of AZ gay marriage ban raise $6.9M
  • Date: Friday, October 3, 2008
  • Supporters of a measure that would change Arizona’s constitution to ban gay marriage have raised $6.9 million, 17 times more than opponents have raised, according to figures released Thursday. Supporters of Proposition 102 say the money they&rsqu...
  • Candidates tackle gay health issues
  • Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008
  • Federal election candidates in Ottawa Centre said health issues are at the forefront of the battle for gay liberation and sexual freedom during a public forum Tuesday at the Ottawa Public Library. In the past, issues related to queer health have been i...
  • Rushing encourages support for transgender, intersex community
  • Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008
  • Lawmaker gets PFLAG’s ’Cornerstone of Equality’ award State Rep. Byron Rushing told the attendees at Greater Boston PFLAG’s annual meeting Sept. 25 that with marriage equality secure in Massachusetts the community and its allies...
  • Best Tranny Bar: The Silver Platter
  • Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008
  • Finally! A crossroads convergence of self-involved, art-damaged 20-something kids and Third World gender illusionists at a water hole whose geography transcends the expanse of Silver Lake proper. Near transnational gang-infested MacArthur Park, at the cor...
  • Call for reform of sex-change legislation
  • Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008
  • THERE IS a need for urgent reform of Irish law relating to transgendered people, according to the Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC). Transgendered people are those who have had gender reassignment surgery and treatment, having being diagnosed with g...
  • Cultural authenticity off mark
  • Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008
  • In the spirit of "reasonable accommodation," Montreal francophone theatres are attempting to reach out to "les autres" or the "others" in Quebec society, with varying degrees of success. While Théâtre Jean Duc...
  • Transgender task force seeks operation coverage
  • Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008
  • Health insurance through the university doesn't explicitly cover the transgender community at Penn State, but one student wants to change that. Denise Conner, a member of the Coalition of LGBTA Graduate Students -- an advisory group focused on LGBT iss...
  • Harvey Milk Democratic club to vote whether to back Cindy Sheehan
  • Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
  • The Harvey Milk Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transsexual Democratic Club will still be LGBT next week, but the Democratic part may be in doubt. The club will vote next Tuesday on whether to pull its endorsement from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and give it to Ci...
  • Appointment a milestone
  • Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
  • As discussion regarding Yale College’s next dean swirls around the issues of race and gender, University President Richard Levin’s selection of Joseph Gordon GRD ’78 as the College’s acting dean marks a new milestone for diversity ...
  • Memoirist Kicks Off Queer Awareness Month Events
  • Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
  • This year’s Queer Awareness Month is about thinking outside the closet, organizers said. As about 100 students gathered in Roone Arledge Auditorium Monday night to see writer Augusten Burroughs speak at the QuAM kickoff, Aquino and QuAM co-coordi...
  • 4 finalists for Tucson fire chief interviewed
  • Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
  • Candidates for Tucson fire chief met with a diverse group of representatives from various community organizations as the city whittles down the final selection. The four male finalists were asked Monday about dealing with minorities on calls and about ...
  • A place for transvestites to connect with God
  • Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
  • Access to prayer, transcendence and feeling closer to God are the religious rights of every human being. However, in practice, it seems that heterosexuals maintain a monopoly over access to these needs in many places of worship. But what about peopl...
  • "Raquela" a fascinating, nonjudgmental portrait
  • Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
  • Fire meets ice as a transsexual from the Philippines tries to adjust to life in Iceland in "The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela." Icelandic director Olaf De Fleur originally planned to make a documentary about Philippine "ladyboys,&quo...
  • Cloud hangs over Taiwan Pride Parade
  • Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
  • Tomorrow the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and their supporters will take to the streets for the Sixth Taiwan Pride Parade. Last year’s LGBT parade was reportedly the largest in Asia, attracting more than 15,000 people, whi...
  • Male? Female? Yes. No. Maybe.
  • Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
  • Cole Thaler is a gay man. But, he explained, he was “assigned female at birth.” Confused? Many people who fall into the traditional gender binary of male or female, including gay men and lesbians, acknowledge they sometimes can’t q...
  • Study finds more gay, bisexual and transgender TV characters
  • Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
  • A study released this week by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) found that 2.6 percent of regular characters in scripted network TV shows this fall are gay, lesbian or bisexual. The study, "Where We Are on TV," looks a...
  • Top Model's Transgender Isis on Surgery and Secrets
  • Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
  • Eliminated Top Model Isis wants the surgery, and she didn't know Clark was talking smack about her until she saw the show! The transgender America's Next Top Model contestant just talked to reporters about what has kept her from going through with gend...
  • Tawdry "Gay Sequel" a new low on stereotypes
  • Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
  • Don't let the title fool you: There's nothing generic about "Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!" Written, directed and co-produced by Todd Stephens, this wretched gaysploitation number is, in fact, the worst gay sequel ever. In case you h...
  • 'Top Model' contender blazes trans trail
  • Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
  • As a little boy in the Washington suburbs, Darrell Walls liked to pretend to be Lil' Kim or a Pink Power Ranger. He felt different, like a girl mistakenly born a boy. But Walls eventually embraced that difference and today is living as Isis King. No...
  • Transsexual Turkish singer defends self in court
  • Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
  • A transsexual singer charged with illegally criticizing mandatory military service in Turkey said in court Wednesday she would say the same thing again. Singer Bulent Ersoy has acknowledged saying on television that if she had children she would not wa...
  • Court rules for plaintiff in transgender discrimination suit
  • Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
  • A federal judge has ruled the Library of Congress discriminated against a Virginia woman when it revoked a job offer after learning she was making the transition from being a man to being a woman. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit in...
  • Turkish transexual takes on top brass
  • Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
  • A FAMED Turkish transsexual singer appeared in court here today to answer charges of turning the public against military service, an offence punishable by three years in prison. Bulent Ersoy, 56, was charged after she said that if she had a son, she woul...
  • B.C. reneged on deal, gay activists say
  • Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
  • Two gay activists accused the B.C. government on Tuesday of reneging on a deal it signed two years ago to make school curriculum more inclusive, especially for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students. But Murray and Peter Corren held off prep...
  • The transgender surgery of Goldman & Morgan
  • Date: Monday, September 22, 2008
  • A weekend of wall-to-wall TV economic punditry failed to convince investors in various markets to adopt any particular course of action regarding their immediate or future investment strategies. The ramifications of the massive US government's financial s...
  • Court recognizes transgender discrimination as sex discrimination
  • Date: Monday, September 22, 2008
  • Last Friday the District Court for the District of Columbia released a widely anticipated decision in the case of a woman who was transgendered and who had not been hired by the Library of Congress because of that fact. The case is Schroer v. Billington, ...
  • Library of Congress loses sex discrimination case
  • Date: Monday, September 22, 2008
  • A former Army Special Forces commander passed over for a job as a terrorism analyst at the Library of Congress because he was in the process of becoming a she won a discrimination lawsuit on Friday. U. S. District Judge James Robinson ruled that the Li...
  • World's youngest sex change star
  • Date: Friday, September 19, 2008
  • A GIRL believed to be the youngest person in the world to have a sex change is set to become a pop star. Kim Petras - originally called Tim - changed sex after she started hormone treatment at the age of just twelve. Now 16-year-old Kim is ready to ...
  • The New Transgender Reality
  • Date: Friday, September 19, 2008
  • In the second season of MTV's pioneering reality show "The Real World," the seven housemates played a game in which they anonymously asked each other personal questions to get better acquainted. It was going fine until Beth Anthony, who just so ...
  • 200 discuss high school for gay, lesbian, transgender youth in Chicago
  • Date: Friday, September 19, 2008
  • Weeks after a proposal to open Chicago's first public high school catering to gay, lesbian and transgender youth was announced, about 200 people on Thursday met with administrators at the city's main gay social services center to discuss whether it's a go...
  • Transvestite teacher to be transferred
  • Date: Friday, September 19, 2008
  • A TEACHER who admitted in a Syariah Court in Bachok last Sunday to taking part in a beauty contest for transvestites would not be returning to teaching, but would be transferred to an administrative post, Berita Harian reported. Education director-gene...
  • Smile called
  • Date: Friday, September 19, 2008
  • Allen Andrade told his girlfriend that he "snapped" when he learned the woman he had oral sex with the night before was biologically a man. Indeed, until he confronted 18-year-old Angie Zapata in her Greeley apartment in July, Andrade had no ...
  • Priscilla Romps into the West End
  • Date: Monday, September 15, 2008
  • With a transfer to the London stage long on the cards, Show and Stay® can finally confirm that Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is scheduled to run at the Palace Theatre from March next year. Based on the Oscar-winning film of 1994, the musical versi...
  • Gender variance is not a disorder
  • Date: Monday, September 15, 2008
  • In an April 2007 edition of "20/20," viewers were introduced to "gender identity disorder," a medical classification for people who do not exhibit the characteristics that are assigned to their gender. On its Web site, ABC News publish...
  • Ruling Inspires New Hope For Transgender People
  • Date: Monday, September 15, 2008
  • To Allyson Robinson, it means accompanying her young children to public restrooms in Montgomery County without worrying that someone will call the police. For Colleen Fay, it brings the hope that the next time she applies for a driver's license she won...
  • Manchester City weigh up Ronaldo move
  • Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008
  • By Matt Lawless Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani openly discussed the possibility of his former player joining City on Italian television station, Sky Sports Italia. "Ronaldo to Manchester City? It's all true. A very good friend of mine w...
  • Transvestite rapist jailed
  • Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008
  • By Dean Kirby A TRANSVESTITE taxi driver has been jailed for five years after being convicted of raping a drunken woman in the back of his car. Qasim Anwar, 30, carried out the attack dressed in make-up, a wig, women's clothing and high heels - and ...
  • Driving ban for transvestite in high-speed police chase
  • Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008
  • POLICE investigating complaints of a man dressed in women's clothes being sexually suggestive to children on a school bus caught a 49-year-old motorist wearing a purple leotard, blonde wig and high heeled boots. Blackburn magistrates heard Lawrence Balsh...
  • Mosley's patrician gloss deflects credibility question
  • Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008
  • By Alan Henry The formula one president insists he remains untainted by revelations about private life Max Mosley puts on an act of self-effacing modesty, but it cannot conceal the patrician gloss he inherited from his father, the British fascist le...
  • Cross-dressing prostitute accused of robbing man of nearly $400
  • Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008
  • Michael B. Thomas, 27, was arrested Friday night along Orange Blossom Trail. The john pulled into a gas station where two deputy sheriffs were conducting a traffic stop. The victim yelled to the officer that he was being robbed, according to the incident ...
  • Transvestite toilet for transgender people
  • Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008
  • By ANI A Thai school has added a third option to the standard'boys' and'girls' bathrooms' a'transvestite toilet'. The Kampang School unveiled a unisex restroom designated by a human figure split in half' part man in blue and part woman in red with w...
  • TV Transvestite Divorces Partner
  • Date: Friday, June 20, 2008
  • Matt Lucas - the comedian who is famous for playing a transvestite on the popular TV show Little Britain – is divorcing his partner of six years. Matt Lucas and TV producer Kevin McGee ‘married’ 18 months ago in a fancy dress civil partn...
  • Thai School Opens Transvestite Toilet
  • Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008
  • According to news reports, a school in the North East of Thailand has become the first secondary school to introduce transvestite toilets. The school decided to install the toilets after a survey of their 2,600 students indicated that over 200 of them saw...