All Posts Tagged With: "gay bisexual transgender"

Association decries police ban on conference

Indra Harsaputra , The Jakarta Post Organizers of an international conference on gender rights and sexually marginalized groups regretted the ban on the event on Wednesday, saying it was hoping to seek solutions to problems faced by marginalized communities in general. Poedjiati Tan, who chairs the organizing committee of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender [...]

25Mar2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

GLBT community pressing for census question to declare sexual orientation

By Tom McGhee The Denver Post They’re here. By their own description, they’re queer. And a gay advocacy group wants the U.S. Census Bureau to ask them about it. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has launched “Queer the Census,” attempting to petition the census to start counting members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual [...]

17Mar2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender teen talks about life in school

By Rachel Welte – coloradoconnection.com COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — Alex Roberson is a senior at Wasson High School. He “came out” two years ago, when he was 16, as “trans” or transgender. He said it was not and has not been easy. “To me basically it is feeling like I was born in the wrong [...]

19Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

WANTED: GAY, LESBIAN AND TRANSGENDER GUNGUARDS FOR THE QUEEN

By John Twomey – Daily Express SCOTLAND Yard is advertising for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender police to guard the Queen. The Metropolitan Police wants ­officers from “special groups” to ­volunteer for armed duty at the ­London palaces, Windsor Castle and Balmoral. Yard chiefs ordered the recruitment drive amid concerns that the Queen’s bodyguard does [...]

22Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Changing Genders: An Interview With the World’s Leading Sex Change Surgeon

By Karlie Pouliot – Fox News Ever since Cher’s daughter Chastity Bono — now Chaz Bono — announced she was beginning the process of becoming a man – many have wondered what exactly a sex change involves. In order to get that answer, FOXNews.com talked to Dr. Marci Bowers, an internationally renowned surgeon who performs [...]

16Sep2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

Teachers seek inclusion of transgender, gay issues in curriculum

By Rosalind Raby – Mid-north Monitor The largest representative group of elementary teachers in Canada is calling on the Ontario government to enshrine new legislation into the curriculum. That is not unusual in itself, but this time the group is looking at the ‘Rainbow coalition’, or what is commonly known these days as LGBT. The [...]

20May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Teachers want gay and transgender issues in curriculum

TYLER KULA The Observer Elementary teachers are calling on the Education Ministry to include lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and transsexual issues in school curriculum. The Elementary Teachers’ Federation recently sent a letter to Education Minister Kathleen Wynne asking that the curriculum reflect family diversity. “We want children to have a positive worth of themselves, and [...]

16May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Students honor hate crime victims

by Chris Gregory Hatchet Reporter On Thursday night about 25 students gathered in the cold in Kogan Plaza surrounded by candlelight as they took turns reading the names of transgender hate crime victims. For National Transgender Remembrance Day, members of Allied in Pride, a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning student organization, held a vigil [...]

25Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued