All Posts Tagged With: "gay community"

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

Parker extends city rights policy to transgendered

By BRADLEY OLSON HOUSTON CHRONICLE Mayor Annise Parker has updated a 12-year-old Houston non-discrimination policy to include transgendered individuals, a step that has won praise from supporters in the gay community but has prompted criticism as well. The two executive orders she signed last week prohibit city employees from harassment or discrimination in hiring, promotion [...]

3Apr2010 | | 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

Gays, lesbians face discrimination in sharia Aceh

Hotli Simanjuntak , The Jakarta Post Growing up, Faisal was not really aware that he had a different sexual orientation from his friends, but as an adult he is very conscious of his sexuality and the discrimination he suffers as a result. Faisal lives in Aceh, the only province in Indonesia that has Islamic sharia [...]

21Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Often shunned by family, Oregon’s gay Latinos fight for respect

By Gosia Wozniacka, The Oregonian When 16-year-old Edna Vazquez of Colima, Mexico, fell in love with a young woman, her parents ran her out of the house. They sent Vazquez to live with relatives in Oregon, hoping a separation from her girlfriend would save their only daughter and the family honor. At first, Vazquez — [...]

18Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Homosexuals being used as ‘scapegoats’ by flawed governments

By Daniel Howden – New Zealand Herald A whispering campaign is under way in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, accusing Paul Semugoma, a doctor, of being a predatory homosexual, actively recruiting younger men into his “vice” with the help of foreign conspirators. His home and business addresses have been published online and he has received a string [...]

11Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gay in Uganda, and Feeling Hunted

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN – The New York Times KAMPALA, Uganda — Isolation, insults, threats and violence: this is what Uganda’s mostly closeted gay community has dealt with for years. But now that Ugandan politicians are threatening to pass a new anti-homosexuality bill that would sentence some homosexuals (serial offenders, those who are H.I.V. positive and [...]

4Jan2010 | | 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