by John Wright of Dallas Voice
2.1.2008
Before endorsing a clinic that provides hormone therapy for transgender people, Maeve O’Connor wanted to do some quality control. . . .Read More
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Native American
by Library Coordinator
2.1.2008
In honor of American Indian and Alaskan Native Heritage Month in November, we featured a selection of books and movies of GLBT Native American interest. Including both historical and contemporary non-fiction, these books challenge the Western concepts of sex, gender, homosexuality, and identity politics. . . .Read More
2.1.2008
In honor of American Indian and Alaskan Native Heritage Month in November, we featured a selection of books and movies of GLBT Native American interest. Including both historical and contemporary non-fiction, these books challenge the Western concepts of sex, gender, homosexuality, and identity politics. . . .Read More
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month
Wayne Clews steps back in time
2.1.2008
For some, February may be a time for thinking up deliriously romantic shenanigans for Valentine’s Day in an attempt to pump a bit of life into an otherwise flagging relationship. However, for those of a more serious bent, February sees the return of the annual LGBT History Month. . . .Read More
2.1.2008
For some, February may be a time for thinking up deliriously romantic shenanigans for Valentine’s Day in an attempt to pump a bit of life into an otherwise flagging relationship. However, for those of a more serious bent, February sees the return of the annual LGBT History Month. . . .Read More
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Transgender: Why Don't We Matter
"Congress once again has determined that transgender people don't matter. That we don't deserve the same rights as everybody else. Let's show them we have a voice."
Best GLBT Books for Kids!
by admin
1.31.2008
The GLBT Round Table of the American Library Association has released their first “Rainbow List“, a list of the best books on GLBT issues for children and young adults. The list covers the best books from 2005-2007, both fiction and non-fiction. . . .Read More
1.31.2008
The GLBT Round Table of the American Library Association has released their first “Rainbow List“, a list of the best books on GLBT issues for children and young adults. The list covers the best books from 2005-2007, both fiction and non-fiction. . . .Read More
Migden secures $300K for SF trans program
by Seth Hemmelgarn
1.31.2008
State Senator Carole Migden (D-San Francisco) announced Tuesday, January 29 that's she secured a $300,000 grant from the state's Employment Development Department to assist transgender people in finding work.
Migden made the announcement during an afternoon news conference in front of City Hall that included LGBT community leaders.
Transgender people often face high rates of discrimination, unemployment and under-employment, and poverty. According to a statement from Migden's office, the money will be used to help transgender people hone their interviewing skills, write resumes, and network with others. . . .Read More
1.31.2008
State Senator Carole Migden (D-San Francisco) announced Tuesday, January 29 that's she secured a $300,000 grant from the state's Employment Development Department to assist transgender people in finding work.
Migden made the announcement during an afternoon news conference in front of City Hall that included LGBT community leaders.
Transgender people often face high rates of discrimination, unemployment and under-employment, and poverty. According to a statement from Migden's office, the money will be used to help transgender people hone their interviewing skills, write resumes, and network with others. . . .Read More
Economic forum a big draw
by Peter Clark
1.31.2008
1.31.2008
As Congress worked on ironing out its economic stimulus package, the San Francisco LGBT Community Center held a daylong workshop Saturday aimed at educating and empowering community members on monetary matters.
More than 150 people attended the event, which included nine seminars on topics ranging from getting out of debt and financial planning to senior housing and legal issues affecting retirement. . . .Read More
Cuba: Transexuality: The Right to Live the Way We Feel
by Mileyda Menéndez and Mayte María Jiménez
2008-02-02
Transsexuals are ordinary people who only need society’s recognition of their gender identity, even if their genitals have the opposite sex’s anatomy.
Mayito looks at the noisy line and grabs his teacher’s hand tightly. With the school’s homeroom period just minutes away, no one even suspects how much suffering these first few steps holds for him every single day in his life as a student.
He knows he will have to get into line in the end, a daily humiliation his psyche seems to accept no more than the pain of wearing boy’s clothes and short hair and coping with the prohibition of playing with girls. He must bear the way the others make fun of his gestures, his father’s disapproving stance, the anguished look in his mother’s eyes, and his own feelings of guilt. . . .Read More
2008-02-02
Transsexuals are ordinary people who only need society’s recognition of their gender identity, even if their genitals have the opposite sex’s anatomy.
Mayito looks at the noisy line and grabs his teacher’s hand tightly. With the school’s homeroom period just minutes away, no one even suspects how much suffering these first few steps holds for him every single day in his life as a student.
He knows he will have to get into line in the end, a daily humiliation his psyche seems to accept no more than the pain of wearing boy’s clothes and short hair and coping with the prohibition of playing with girls. He must bear the way the others make fun of his gestures, his father’s disapproving stance, the anguished look in his mother’s eyes, and his own feelings of guilt. . . .Read More
Transgender odyssey: Workplace inequity takes teacher from Michigan campus to national stage
by Todd A. Heywood
1/31/2008
When Julie Nemecek first told the president of Spring Arbor University that she was transgender and would be assuming her female persona, the president, Nemecek said, was supportive. But in the weeks that followed, the associate professor was subjected to a series of rules that became more and more restrictive. . . .Read More
Transsexual Seeks GOP Nomination For Minnesota Legislature
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
(Minneapolis, Minnesota) Chrissy Nakonsky is hoping to become the first transsexual elected to a state legislature.
January 29, 2008
(Minneapolis, Minnesota) Chrissy Nakonsky is hoping to become the first transsexual elected to a state legislature.
Nakonsky who was married before she transitioned and remains with her wife has two children. She is seeking the Republican nomination in Brainerd.
"I've voted Republican all my life," Nakonsky told the Star Tribune newspaper. "Republicans swear by not raising taxes, and raising taxes would hurt families in poverty, like mine." . . .Read More
New York's Transsexual Star Alannah Starr challenges gender boundaries
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Hamburger Mary's Concept Coming to Cedar Rapids
2008-02-02
The Gazette - Cedar Rapids, Iowa
The Gazette - Cedar Rapids, Iowa
By David DeWitte, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Feb. 2--With the slogan "open-air bar and grilles for open-minded people," Cedar Rapids' first restaurant targeting gay, lesbian and transsexual diners will open next month. . . .Read More
Author's new memoir reveals more layers of life as a transsexual
February 03, 2008
DAMIAN KILBY
Special to The OregonianJennifer Finney Boylan writes memoirs to help readers understand the transsexual experience. It's a difficult topic for most of us to wrap our thoughts around -- especially since we're rarely even aware of the existence of transgendered individuals in our midst.
James Boylan was a talented child raised in privilege along Philadelphia's Main Line. He became both a successful literary novelist and a respected college professor. In his early 40s he came out, to family and friends, as a woman trapped in a man's body. He then proceeded on to a complete change of sexual identity through therapy, hormones and surgery. . . .Read More
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Woman: "I Was Attacked For Being Transgendered"
Attacks against minorities are on the rise, but experts disagree when it comes to how much.
Adam May reveals why state and federal statistics are different and why hundreds of local cases might go unreported.
On her way to buy some orange juice, 26-year-old Pamela Brown, who started living as a woman three years ago, said she was viciously attacked because she is transgendered. . . .Read More
Peddling dreams
Wednesday, 30 January 2008
The tragic life of author Eve Langley is explored in an original dance/theatre piece by 75-year-old Elizabeth Langley. She spoke with Katrina Fox.
“I have dedicated this work to all whose eccentricity, creativity and freedom has been denied, repressed or betrayed, especially women,” says Elizabeth Langley of her solo show Journal of Peddle Dreams, which is a Mardi Gras Theatre Initiative.
Author Eve Langley (1904-1974) lived in a climate where the above were not encouraged in women and as such suffered a tortured life, despite her first book The Pea Pickers being considered a classic in Australian literature. After cross-dressing as a young woman, Eve later struggled to be a wife and mother and was institutionalised in a mental hospital for seven years where she was diagnosed as schizophrenic. In 1954 she changed her name by deed poll to Oscar Wilde. In her later years she lived in isolation in the Blue Mountains, compulsively writing a large number of unpublished works, before dying alone, her body laying undiscovered for around three weeks after her death. . . .Read More
The tragic life of author Eve Langley is explored in an original dance/theatre piece by 75-year-old Elizabeth Langley. She spoke with Katrina Fox.
“I have dedicated this work to all whose eccentricity, creativity and freedom has been denied, repressed or betrayed, especially women,” says Elizabeth Langley of her solo show Journal of Peddle Dreams, which is a Mardi Gras Theatre Initiative.
Author Eve Langley (1904-1974) lived in a climate where the above were not encouraged in women and as such suffered a tortured life, despite her first book The Pea Pickers being considered a classic in Australian literature. After cross-dressing as a young woman, Eve later struggled to be a wife and mother and was institutionalised in a mental hospital for seven years where she was diagnosed as schizophrenic. In 1954 she changed her name by deed poll to Oscar Wilde. In her later years she lived in isolation in the Blue Mountains, compulsively writing a large number of unpublished works, before dying alone, her body laying undiscovered for around three weeks after her death. . . .Read More
Transamerican Love Story Reality Dating Show
January 30th, 2008
by Molly Celaschi
by Molly Celaschi
Alec Mapa (gay dude from Desperate Housewives) hosts this groundbreaking transgendered elimination dating show.
The Ladies of Wisteria Lane Naked!
The transgender bachelorette, Calpernia Addams, is being wooed by eight handsome men. With the advice of her trans best friend Andrea combined with multiple challenges and dates, Calpernia will shave down her group of suitors until she finds her prince charming. . . .Read More
Christian Right: Spanking the Kiwi
by Craig Young - 31st January 2008
At present, the Christian Right is mostly quiescent, apart from the rumblings of Family First and the oddly renamed Kiwi Party.
At present, the Christian Right is mostly quiescent, apart from the rumblings of Family First and the oddly renamed Kiwi Party.
In case anyone missed it, the Kiwi Party is the old Future New Zealand which was the old fundamentalist bit of United Future and the Christian Democrats at its inception, back in 1995. Larry Baldock is now sole leader, while Gordon Copeland is concentrating on parliamentary matters. And the issue that chiefly concerns them is... yep, spanking. . . .Read More
The drama of being transgender
January 30, 2008
Local theater companies are increasingly staging plays revolving around transgender characters. In mainstream media people who feel they were born into a body of the wrong gender are often the subject of derision and exploitation. But on Twin Cities stages, they're more likely to be portrayed as... people. . . .Read More
Sweden: Gothenburg to Stop Discrimination of HBT Community
January 2008
After declaring itself the worst large town in Sweden to live in for the homosexual, bisexual and transgender community, Gothenburg is taking steps to improve its standing. . . .Read More
Transgender debate draws crowd
January 2008
By MEGAN ROLLAND
Sun staff writer
By MEGAN ROLLAND
Sun staff writer
City Hall was buzzing Monday night with both protest and support for a proposed city ordinance that would include gender identity as a class of people protected from discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodation.
The auditorium had standing-room only, as did the entryway where a large crowd watched the decision on closed-circuit television. The vast majority of those who spoke on the issue were against the ordinance.
Those in favor of the ordinance lauded it as a step toward increased human rights for transgender individuals, who some said are marginalized in society.
The ordinance would add gender identity as a category of people protected from discrimination. Discrimination based on race, religion, sexual orientation and gender are already outlawed in Gainesville.
City officials defined gender identity as a situation where people have an inner sense of being a gender other than their gender at birth. . . .Read More
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