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Military academies hold first gay pride events

Associated Press NORTHFIELD, Vt. (AP) — At the beginning of the school year, gay pride events at a military academy with titles like “condom Olympics” and “queer prom” would have been unthinkable. This week, they’re a reality. Cadets in uniform at Norwich University, the nation’s oldest private military academy, participated Monday in sessions about handling [...]

28Mar2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

Supporters of Anchorage measure seeking equal rights for gay, transgender residents blast ad

ASSOCIATED PRESS ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Proponents of an Anchorage ballot initiative seeking equal protections for gay and transgender residents are slamming a new ad by opponents. The ad by Proposition 5 opponents — Protect Your Rights, Vote No on Prop 5 — says the measure would make it illegal for a day care center to [...]

28Mar2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Chinese twins ‘seek sex change’

AFP SHANGHAI — Two young Chinese women undergoing sex-change surgery at a Shanghai hospital are hoping to be the first twins in the country to change their gender, a state-backed newspaper said Wednesday. The 25-year-old sisters from the southwestern province of Yunnan have already undergone preliminary surgery at a military hospital in the commercial hub, [...]

28Mar2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

NYC rapped in transgender birth certificate case

The Associated Press (AP) — He had been through sex-change surgery and wanted his birth certificate to reflect the man he’d become, at nearly 70. City health officials said they needed a psychiatric report and detailed surgical records to switch the gender on his birth certificate — requirements that put up undue roadblocks, a judge [...]

28Mar2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

Ohio transgender student charges discrimination

OXFORD, Ohio (AP) — A student who has switched gender identity from female to a male is charging housing discrimination by a southwest Ohio university. Multiple media outlets report that Miami University student Kaeden Kass filed a discrimination complaint with the university saying he should be in a dormitory suite with males but was assigned [...]

21Mar2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

Omaha narrowly approves law to protect gays from discrimination

(Reuters) – Omaha on Tuesday narrowly approved anti-discrimination protections for gays and transgender residents, leaving about a dozen of the largest U.S. cities without legal protections based on sexual orientation. The city council voted 4-3 to add sexual orientation and transgender status to the city’s law that already prohibits discrimination based on race, religion, and [...]

14Mar2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Obama’s transgender nanny remembers ‘little Barry’

(AFP) JAKARTA — A transgender Indonesian man who shot to fame after it emerged he had worked as Barack Obama’s nanny in the late 1960s wants nothing from “little Barry” but to meet him again some day. TV crews and reporters have descended on the tiny concrete shack in an east Jakarta slum, where Turdi, [...]

13Mar2012 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Transsexual Thai air hostesses: gimmick or equality?

By (AFP) With her crisp uniform, immaculate makeup and hair swept up, Mew looks like any other air hostess, but she’s one of a handful of Thai transsexuals blazing a trail in the skies. Fledgling Thailand-based carrier PC Air has hired four transgender cabin crew in a highly publicised recruitment drive that has divided opinion [...]

12Mar2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

Iowa superintendent takes blame for inviting Minnesota group that raised controversial issues

ASSOCIATED PRESS DUNKERTON, Iowa — An eastern Iowa school district superintendent has apologized after an event included potentially offensive messages about homosexual and transgender people. Waterloo television station KWWL reports (http://bit.ly/wG2QAK) Dunkerton Community School Superintendent Jim Stanton talked to students Thursday afternoon about the messages delivered during an assembly earlier in the day. Stanton says [...]

9Mar2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

New York opens first gay senior citizens center

(AFP) NEW YORK — New York City has opened the first senior citizens center in the United States dedicated exclusively to homosexuals under an initiative sponsored by the mayor’s office. “We considered it the first full-time, full-service senior center for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual) seniors in the US,” said Christopher Miller, a spokesman [...]

9Mar2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

S.C. Senate panel advances inmate sex surgery bill

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A bill that would prohibit state money from being used for sex change surgeries for prison inmates is one step closer to becoming law. The Senate Corrections and Penology Committee on Thursday approved the bill that now goes to the Senate. Under current policy, the South Carolina Department of Corrections is [...]

9Mar2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

Musician Chely Wright to open LGBT center in Mo.

Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chely (SHEL’-ee) Wright, one of the first county artists to come out as gay, is opening a community center this weekend in Kansas City, Mo. The new center, called the LIKEME Lighthouse, is meant to serve as a place for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their [...]

8Mar2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

No home internet?

Author: Dorsey Velasquez Thinking back on a time when I didn’t have internet at home makes me laugh. Now that I own my own business and I’ve got the best t1internet.com package money can buy I can’t imagine what it would be like if I had slower internet or if I didn’t have it at [...]

28Feb2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

Baltimore Co. OKs transgender discrimination ban

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore County has become the fourth local government in the state to approve a measure protecting transgender people from discrimination. The county Council approved the measure on Tuesday. It prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression and sexual orientation when it comes to housing, employment, public accommodations and financing. [...]

22Feb2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

The appropriate occasions to send gift baskets

There are many opportunities for those who want to exchange gifts to do so. Depending on the culture, or the place that you live, there are many holidays which are traditional days for exchanging gifts. One of the most popular days for exchanging gifts is Christmas, but this long time tradition also extends to birthdays, [...]

22Feb2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

More kids get sex change

AP CHICAGO — A growing number of teens and younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, the medical journal Pediatrics reports. It’s an issue that raises ethical questions, and experts urge caution in treating children with puberty-blocking drugs and [...]

22Feb2012 | | 0 comments | Continued

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
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