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A VERY peculiar engagement

When millionaire property developer Charles Kane steps out with his new fiancée, people tend to either stare or discreetly do a double take. It may be because Victoria Emms is a striking redhead and, at 28 to Charles’s 50, is young enough to be his daughter. But they both suspect it is because they look [...]

9Nov2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender tales

Source: The Hindu Films In a novel initiative, at the Kovai Rainbow Film Festival, seven transgenders screened documentaries they had filmed covering issues close to their heart Seven transgenders cast off their inhibitions and came forward to take on the world as documentary filmmakers. Armed with a camcorder, they made documentary films about issues that [...]

3Sep2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

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

Sex-change doc likely leaving Trinidad

The Denver Post TRINIDAD — A town nicknamed the “sex-change capital of the world” will probably be losing a surgeon who has performed hundreds of the operations. Dr. Marci Bowers said Monday that she is “98 percent sure” she will be moving to the San Francisco area Oct. 1. “There are advantages to being in [...]

3Aug2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Texas mom challenges transgender widow’s marriage

By JUAN A. LOZANO (AP) HOUSTON — The family of a southeast Texas firefighter killed in a July 4 blaze has sued to void his marriage to his transgender widow and prevent her from getting his death benefits because she was born a man and Texas doesn’t recognize same-sex marriages. The attorney for the mother [...]

24Jul2010 | | 1 comment | Continued

A Gay Campaign? Both Sides Demur

Source: The New York Times OKLAHOMA CITY — One of the more unlikely showdowns for the fall elections is taking shape here in this staunchly conservative state, where same-sex marriage is constitutionally banned and the Legislature frequently takes on issues like abortion. Brittany Novotny, a Democrat and Oklahoma’s first known transgender candidate, is running for [...]

20Jul2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

First gay marriage in Argentina set for August 13

(AFP) BUENOS AIRES — Argentina’s first gay marriage under a law passed this week was set for August 13 between a 61-year-old man and his 60-year-old partner, officials said Friday. The first union was authorized by municipal officials in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires for actor Ernesto Rodriguez Larrese, 60, and Alejandro Vanelli, 61, [...]

17Jul2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transexuals Take Leading Role in Madrid’s Gay Pride Parade

Source: Latin American Herald Tribune MADRID – Thousands of people paraded Saturday through downtown Madrid in a festive, colorful march giving visibility of transexuals, a group that took the leading role in this year’s Gay Pride demonstration in Spain. The parade attracted, according to the organizers – the State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transexuals and [...]

4Jul2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gay and transgender struggle for acceptance in Indonesia

By Karishma Vaswani – BBC News, Jakarta In a cramped and dirty cell, four women sit side by side on a stone bench, waiting patiently for their turn to testify in court. The women’s cell is littered with cigarette butts and pieces of tissue with lipstick marks. In the corner, instead of a urinal, there [...]

19Jun2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Budget Cuts Put Those In LGBT Shelters On Streets

Experts Fear For Safety Of Gay, Lesbian, Transgender Youths Because, In Many Cases, Society Has Turned Its Back Demonstrators Pack Union Square, Cry Out For Help From City Hall NEW YORK (CBS) ― The problem is already bad and is about to get worse. Experts told CBS 2 HD on Monday that hundreds of gay, [...]

15Jun2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Pakistan ‘eunuch wedding’ is stopped by police

BBC News Police in the Pakistani city of Peshawar have arrested a man for trying to marry a eunuch, officials say. At least 45 other people, including several eunuchs, have also been arrested for attending the “marriage” ceremony. The pair have denied they were getting married. But correspondents say that this is the first time [...]

26May2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

German sex change star to cover music awards

German Herald Teenage pop sensation Kim Petras is to work as a back stage reporter to cover this years Comet awards. The job will see Kim walking along the red carpet to interview celebrities accompanied by her own film crew from an Australian TV station. She will also have her own photographer after she signed [...]

26Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Lady Gaga celebrates 24th birthday with Sydney drag act sensation Courtney Act

Herald Sun LADY Gaga left Australia and flew to Japan this week as details of her secret 24th birthday party held in Canberra leaked out. While some have found Canberra a difficult town to rock, Gaga’s entourage organised a private party at the Botanic Gardens on March 28 and invited, as entertainment, Sydney drag sensation [...]

15Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender India: Banned in Bombay?

Prominent activist Laxmi Tripathi suffers the very discrimination that she fights. By Hanna Ingber Win — GlobalPost MUMBAI, India — Laxmi Tripathi stands tall and proud. She — who used to go by he — wears her hair long, her eyes decorated with thick black eyeliner and a low-cut top that reveals a hint of [...]

13Apr2010 | | 3 comments | Continued

Olivier Theyskens Wanted a Sex-Change Operation As a Child

From nymag.com Ex–Nina Ricci designer Olivier Theyskens reveals that as a child he entertained fantasies of a sex change and told his classmates he would move to America to have this done. “I was always imagining what it is to be a beautiful girl. And I was drawing pictures of women all the time — [...]

13Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Bureau wants same-sex couples to check the ‘married’ box on census form

By ERIC ADLER The Kansas City Star Legally, the federal government, Kansas, Missouri and 43 other states do not recognize same-sex marriages — the union of two men or two women. But one curious aspect of the 2010 U.S. Census? It does — whether gay marriage is legal or not. In fact, representatives of the [...]

8Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Trinidad surgeon helps women escape past of mutilation

Karen Auge The Denver Post Dr. Marci Bowers slipped into a chair in Exam Room 3, folded one long leg over another, looked at her patient — a young woman with wide eyes and a nervous smile — and got to the point. “We want to help make your life better,” Bowers said. Mariama is [...]

8Mar2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

In France, Transsexuals Celebrate a Small Victory

By Gaëlle Faure / Paris – Time Several decades have passed since the West stopped considering homosexuality a mental illness. But for transsexuals, that kind of milestone has been elusive — until now. Last month, France became the first country in the world to remove transsexualism from its official list of mental disorders — a [...]

2Mar2010 | | 0 comments | Continued
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