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NAACP president says group supports extending rights to transgender residents in Maryland

By Associated Press BALTIMORE — NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said Thursday the civil rights group supports legislation in Maryland to extend rights to transgender residents. Jealous spoke at a national conference on rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, the 24th national conference on LGBT equality. “This striving for inclusion is not new,” [...]

30Jan2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

Funny Commercial

The Author of this post is Velma Baird Have you seen the commercialsl with the woman who leaves all of her appliances on when she leaves the house? The blender and mixer is going on the counter, she leaves the refrigerator open, the television is going, the sprinkler’s running in the front yard, etc. It’s [...]

30Jan2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

Watchdog urges Kuwait to stop transgender abuse

DUBAI : Kuwaiti police torture and sexually abuse transgender women – individuals born male but who identify as female – a human rights watchdog said on Sunday, urging the Gulf state to protect them from violence and investigate claims of brutality. A Kuwaiti Interior Ministry spokesman declined to make an immediate comment on the report, [...]

18Jan2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Memorial service planned for transgender icon Carmen

AAP FLAMBOYANT transgender icon Carmen Rupe will be remembered at a service in Auckland next month. Carmen, 75, died from kidney failure in Sydney in December last year. A public memorial service will be held at St Matthew-in-the-City church on February 11, followed by a celebration of her life at DNA and Family bars on [...]

18Jan2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexual in Miss England field

LONDON, (UPI) — A transsexual says modeling agency officials had no idea she had been born male when they urged her to enter the Miss England pageant. Jackie Green, 18, Leeds, is the first contestant in the pageant to have undergone a sex change and says she was flattered when talent scouts urged her to [...]

18Jan2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

‘NCP man’ targets Mumbai gay fundraiser

Source: The Times of India MUMBAI: A week before the city’s lesbian, gay, transgender community celebrates its annual ‘Pride Week’, a dinner party at an Oshiwara Hotel to raise funds was targeted by a local political party worker. Haji Ahmed Sahab, who claims to be a worker of the Nationalist Congress Party, said that he [...]

18Jan2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

Activists gather in Charleston for LGBT racism forum

Associated Press CHARLESTON — Racism and the role that race plays in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community is the topic of a meeting in Charleston. The Alliance for Full Acceptance is scheduled to host a forum Wednesday evening in the auditorium of the Charleston County Main Library. Organizer Kyle Taylor says some minorities [...]

12Jan2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

Nopalea

I have been checking out Nopalea wellness drink lately. Made from the Nopales Cactus from the southwestern and Mexico region it can help a lot with inflammation. I suffer from a lot of inflammation due to various illnesses. Not a good thing being my age but not a lot I can do about it. Nopales [...]

12Jan2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

Baby Things

I have been shopping for a baby carrier lately as a gift for a friend. I didn’t realize that baby stuff has changed so much since the last time I was shopping for baby items. There are ring slings and just slings which can make carrying a baby quite easy. They kind of look like [...]

3Jan2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

Sexual minorities get a ‘Pehchaan’ of their own

Source: The Times of India NAGPUR: Individuals belonging to sexually marginalized groups like lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual and queer (LGTBQ) can now seek help under project Pehchaan and try to build their gender identity. Sarathi Trust, a community based organization of Nagpur, is working on Pehchaan in collaboration with Mumbai-based AVERT Society and The Humsafar [...]

31Dec2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

Choices

Guest post from: Kent Lara One of my favorite things about direct tv packages is that you have a million different options to configure your personal package. Depending on what types of shows you like to watch, you can choose certain stations and options. If you enjoy watching a huge range of shows, you can [...]

29Dec2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

Group turns in signatures for Anchorage rights measure protecting gay, transgender residents

ASSOCIATED PRESS ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Anchorage group has turned in signatures to put an equal rights initiative on the April municipal ballot. A spokesman for One Anchorage says it submitted 13,000 signatures Thursday. The initiative seeks to give legal protection to gay and transgender Alaskans. Group spokesman Trevor Storrs says gay and transgender Alaskans [...]

12Dec2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

Rights group: More US companies covering cost of reassignment surgery for transgender workers

Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — The number of major U.S. companies covering the cost of gender reassignment surgery for transgender workers has more than doubled in the past year, according to a new scorecard compiled by the nation’s largest gay rights group. The Human Rights Campaign said in a report to be published Thursday that [...]

8Dec2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

Appeals court rules in favor of transgender woman

Associated Press ATLANTA — A federal appeals court in Atlanta has ruled in favor of a former Georgia state legislative official who was fired after revealing plans for a sex change. Vandy Beth Glenn, who was formerly known as Glenn Morrison, said she was fired after telling her boss that she planned to proceed with [...]

8Dec2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

Mom and I

Contribution by Saul Martin My mom and I worked for hours on our new business and it’s because we were starting it together. I was excited to do something new with her and although things between she and I hadn’t always been perfect there were so many memories between us I knew we’d be able [...]

28Nov2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender student raises school district issues

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) – A transgender student at Fort Collins High School is transferring to another school after administrators raised questions over her use of a restroom. Dionne Malikowski says she should have the same rights as any student to use the bathroom of her choice. Malikowski was born male and now identifies as [...]

21Nov2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

Lauder, maker of breast cancer’s pink ribbon, dies

Associated Press NEW YORK — Pink was Evelyn Lauder’s color. In her long career as an executive at cosmetics giant Estee Lauder Cos., the company founded by her mother-in-law, Lauder worked with many shades of red, peach, bronze and even blues, but pink was the one hue that changed her life. In 1992, Lauder worked [...]

13Nov2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

Sex Change Surgery Is Now Tax Deductible

Source: Time.com The Internal Revenue Service isn’t going to fight people any longer who want to deduct the cost of gender reassignment surgery from their taxes. According to a so-called acquiescence filed earlier this month, IRS officials notified the Tax Court that it would abide by a 2010 decision that held that some medical expenses [...]

13Nov2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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