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Transsexual singer wins top music school place after switching his voice from baritone to a soprano

By Carol Driver – Daily Mail When transsexual opera singer Emily De Salvo first applied to one of Italy’s most prestigious music schools, he was rejected as the board was unsure whether to place him among the male or female singers. This week, after three years’ studying with baritone Maurizio Picconi and soprano Amelia Felle, [...]

21Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

The serious business of becoming a woman

By Jamie Portman, Canwest News Service BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – How do you avoid charges of sensationalism if you set out to make a movie about the world’s first sex-change operation? The simple answer is that you aim high. You set out to deliver a serious story and a quality product free of lurid tabloid [...]

17Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

‘Pregnant man’ Thomas Beatie expecting baby number three

BY Neil Nagraj DAILY NEWS ”Pregnant man” Thomas Beatie is expecting baby No. 3. Thomas Beatie, the so-called “pregnant man,” is expecting baby No. 3, the Web site MomLogic.com reports. The transgender Oregonian grabbed headlines around the world two years ago when he came forward announcing he was pregnant — and male. Beatie underwent 10 [...]

11Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Miss Transsexual crowned

From starobserver.com.au Chelsey Mikimoto, a transgender showgirl from Melbourne, was crowned Miss Transsexual Australia 2010 in the country’s first-ever beauty pageant for transsexuals and transgenders, held at Melbourne’s Bar 362 last week. Contestants were judged on their creativity, talent, wit, beauty and confidence. Singapore-born Mikimoto, who performs at cabaret shows, nightclubs and entertainment venues around [...]

9Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

The world’s SECOND pregnant man is ‘blissfully happy’ as he prepares to give birth to baby boy next month

By Carol Driver – dailymail.co.uk A transgender couple have revealed they are expecting their first baby in a month’s time. Scott Moore – thought to be only the second ‘pregnant man’ to go public – is due to give birth to a boy in February, with husband Thomas by his side. The couple were both [...]

26Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Top model admits being transsexual

-The Daily Chilli/Asia News Network Taiwanese model Alicia Liu (Xun Ai) has admitted that she is a transsexual. The 24-year-old model-cum-actress, nicknamed Xiao Ai, said she underwent sex-change surgery at the age of 18. “My ex-boyfriend paid for it,” she said in an interview with a Taiwan magazine on Friday. Liu, whose original name was [...]

23Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Lady Gaga coming to New Jersey to support gay marriage

Garden State Equality is one of several groups who will benefit from the Atlantic City event BY JEN CALANTONE NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The eccentric pop-star Lady Gaga will be bringing her “poker face” to the House of Blues at the Showboat Casino and Hotel in Atlantic City on Jan. 16 — but it won’t be to promote [...]

16Jan2010 | | 2 comments | Continued

Argentina hosts first gay marriage in Latin America

(AFP) – BUENOS AIRES — Two Argentine men on Tuesday became the first homosexuals to legally marry in Latin America, after the governor of the country’s southernmost Tierra del Fuego province permitted their wedding. “We got married today in Ushuaia,” an exultant Alex Freyre told the Todos Noticias news channel in Buenos Aires by telephone. [...]

30Dec2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Uncommon decency

Transgender women prepare to file lawsuit in response to treatment in D.C. jails by Yusef Najafi – Metro Weekly In August 2007, D.C. announced the firing of three corrections officers for wrongfully placing a transgender inmate, who had female genitalia, in a male jail facility — ignoring her pleas to be moved throughout her two-day [...]

24Dec2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Miss Indian Transgender competition

by Kellie Hwang – The Arizona Republic Mesa resident Ricki Quintero gazes proudly at two Native American dresses in her apartment. One is white with turquoise embroidery, and the other is a sunny yellow. Both are made of soft deerskin, embellished with silver ornaments and finished with long, meticulously cut tassels. These dresses are meaningful [...]

10Dec2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

Fla. MacDonald’s Manager Tells Transgender Job Applicant “We Don’t Hire Faggots”

By Jodi Jacobson – rhrealitycheck.org The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF) has filed an employment discrimination complaint with the Florida Commission on Human Relations against McDonald’s for discriminating against a transgender person who applied for a job. TLDEF reports that: On July 10, 2009, Zikerria Bellamy applied online for a position as a [...]

7Dec2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Sex change trucker: At last I am happy

Alex Bell – Manchester Evening News A VALLEY dad-of-two has turned his back on a 25-year marriage – to become a woman. Nikki Jane Weston, formerly known as Nigel, hopes to soon complete a sex change that will forever alter her and her family’s life. The Newchurch-born 45-year-old has grown long hair and now has [...]

4Dec2009 | | 2 comments | Continued

New York state lawmakers reject gay marriage bill

By MICHAEL GORMLEY (AP) ALBANY, N.Y. — New York lawmakers rejected a bill Wednesday that would have made their state the sixth to allow gay marriage, stunning advocates who weathered a similar decision by Maine voters just last month. The New York measure needed 32 votes to pass and failed by a wider-than-expected margin, falling [...]

3Dec2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

April Ashley: 50 happy years for sex-swap pioneer

Britain’s first transsexual is, in a new exhibition, again challenging ideas about gender, identity and DNA. By Peter Stanford – telegraph.co.uk It always makes me laugh when people say I was born a man,” says April Ashley, who in 1960 became the first Briton to undergo sex-change surgery. “I was born a baby, not a [...]

24Nov2009 | | 2 comments | Continued

Buenos Aires grants first marriage license to gays

By VANESSA HAND ORELLANA (AP) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Two men were granted a marriage license in Argentina’s capital on Monday, breaking ground in a country and region where laws ban gay marriage. Jose Maria Di Bello and his partner Alex Freyre won the right to get married when a judge ruled last week that [...]

17Nov2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Toronto to host World Pride 2014

The Canadian Press Toronto is already planning the festivities for when it hosts the World Pride event in 2014. The city beat out Stockholm to host the international political and cultural event that promotes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. Mark Singh, chair of the city’s World Pride committee, said the festival will highlight the [...]

19Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Boy, 8, has ‘sex change’

An eight-year-old boy, Joey Romero, has become a girl called Josie in a remarkable US gender-swap case that features in a new Channel 4 documentary. By Alastair Jamieson – Telegraph.co.uk Josie was diagnosed as transgender at the age of six. Her sex has been legally changed and she will undergo surgery and drug treatment to [...]

16Oct2009 | | 2 comments | Continued

Gay Rights Marchers Press Cause in Washington

By JEREMY W. PETERS – New York Times WASHINGTON — Impatient and discouraged by what they see as a certain detachment by President Obama on their issues, gay rights supporters took to the streets Sunday in the largest demonstration for gay rights here in nearly a decade. The rally was primarily the undertaking of a [...]

11Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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