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Thousands line streets for Manchester Pride parade

Source: BBC News Thousands of people took to the streets of Manchester to watch the annual Pride parade. The event – which is celebrating its 20th anniversary – saw more than 100 groups and floats make their way through the city centre. Award-winning actor Sir Ian McKellen is Grand Marshal of the 2010 parade and [...]

28Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Myrtle Beach

http://www.grandeshores.com is a great website to check out if you are looking for information, advice, and tips for staying in a Myrtle Beach Hotel. If you are going to go on a vacation then you need to check out the deals and packages that you can find there. A Myrtle Beach hotel can be a [...]

28Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

U.K. transsexual sues former employer

LONDON, Aug. 26 (UPI) — A transsexual caregiver in England is suing her former employer for allegedly firing her after she turned up at work wearing a dress, authorities say. Rachel Millington, 24, said she had informed Housing and Support Solutions Ltd. in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, before she made her first appearance at work as a [...]

27Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Singapore native acts out the lives of Asian transsexuals

By Luis Torres de la Llosa (AFP) NEW YORK — The life of a transexual in Asia is limited to sexual work — such is the searing viewpoint of Singapore native Leona Lo, who traveled to New York to present a first-person, three-act play on the subject. The “Ah Kua Show” is a collage of [...]

27Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgenders to be separate category in Census

Press Trust Of India The Technical Advisory Committee constituted by Registrar General has recommended inclusion of transgender community in the census as a separate gender and not as males as is the present practice. In an RTI reply to Dr SE Huda of Bareilly based-NGO SSFA-ESFI, the Registrar General has said that the TAC has [...]

24Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Thousands march for gay right to marry

Source: Irish Independent THOUSANDS of people took to the streets yesterday to demand civil marriage rights for same-sex couples. Up to 3,000 gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people — from teenagers to seniors — marched from Dublin City Hall past the Dail to the Department of Justice on St Stephen’s Green. Waving rainbow-coloured banners [...]

23Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Sheriff: Transgender inmate not mistreated

FLINT, Mich., (UPI) — A Michigan transgender inmate held for six days in the Genesse County jail was not mistreated, police say. The American Civil Liberties Union will investigate claims of mistreatment made by Rochelle A. Meade, who lives as a woman but remains a male anatomically, The Flint (Mich.) Journal said Friday. Meade, 38, [...]

21Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender woman may seek refugee status

CHESTER, Nova Scotia, (UPI) — Immigration officials have found a transgender woman from Ireland now living in Canada is eligible to apply for refugee status, her lawyer said. Attorney Lee Cohen says his client, Tanya Bloomfield, would be targeted for hate if she is returned to Ireland because she is being transgendered, the Canadian Broadcasting [...]

21Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Cuba’s first transsexual in the spotlight

(AFP) HAVANA — The story of Cuba’s first transsexual to undergo gender reassignment surgery is coming to the big screen in a documentary getting its premiere Wednesday on the Communist-ruled island, its director said. “Mavi Sussel underwent (male-to-female) gender reassignment surgery in 1988 and the documentary is a journey inside this woman, and about the [...]

18Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Warning over counterfeit cosmetics in Northern Ireland

Source: BBC News The word make-up could be taking on a whole new meaning in Northern Ireland after a Belfast trader was fined £240 for selling counterfeit cosmetics. Fake versions of big name brands MAC, Bobbi Brown and Chanel were found when Trading Standards swooped on the premises of Kevin Higgins at the Dairy Farm [...]

18Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Are We Facing a Genderless Future?

Source: Newsweek This spring, an Australian named Norrie May-Welby made headlines around the world as the world’s first legally genderless person when the New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages sent the Sydney resident a certificate containing neither M for male or F for female. For a few days, it appeared that the [...]

16Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Reasons Why Attending To Your Complexion Is Extremely Important

It is indeed undeniable that the skin is one of the most significant parts of the body. It is like any other organ that needs critical caring. Your skin is the first thing a person notices in another person since it is the silk that coats our body. So, there is a need for everyone to give much attention to skin care.

16Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Manchester stylists helping guys to be girls

Source: BBC News In many ways, Transfixed is a salon like any other, catering for those who want to look glamorous for a night out. Unlike other salons though, it is aimed at transgenders and cross-dressers. Set up by Zara Prior and Lisa Breakey, the salon provides hair and beauty treatments, as well as advice [...]

14Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Not for Hong Kong court to rule on transgender union: lawyer

(AFP) HONG KONG — Government lawyers told a Hong Kong court Tuesday that the legislature, not the courts, should decide if a transsexual can marry her boyfriend in the first such legal case in the Chinese city. The male-to-female transsexual, who is in her 20s and known only as “W” under anonymity rules, took the [...]

11Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Female circumcision victims seek out Colo. doctor

By CATHERINE TSAI (AP) TRINIDAD, Colo. — This picturesque southern Colorado town known for decades as the sex-change capital of the world — thousands of gender-reassignment operations have been performed here — is becoming a beacon for victims of female genital mutilation. Dr. Marci Bowers has performed about two dozen reconstructive surgeries on mostly African [...]

11Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexual in Hong Kong fights to marry her boyfriend

Source: BBC News, Hong Kong In a landmark court case in Hong Kong, a woman who used to be a man will fight for the right to marry her boyfriend. The transsexual, who remains anonymous, has been blocked from doing so by the Hong Kong authorities. A Chinese woman in her twenties, identified only as [...]

9Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Hong Kong transsexual launches court bid

(AFP) HONG KONG — A Hong Kong transsexual has launched a landmark court challenge to win the right to marry her boyfriend after city officials blocked the move, a report said Sunday. The Chinese woman in her 20s — who was born a man — was denied the right to marry her male partner by [...]

8Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Moving to Texas

Texas Movers and Texas Moving Companies can be hard to sort through when you are looking to move to Texas for that job after college or just moving from one company to another. Texas is a large state and is almost like its own country at times. Since there are so many companies in Texas [...]

6Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued
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