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  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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. ...
  • '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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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?...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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 ...
  • 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...
  • 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....
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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 ...
  • 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...