All Posts Tagged With: "gay"

Today is big day for women, trans folk

By TAMARA CHERRY – Toronto Sun First they will march. Then they will celebrate. It will be a Dyke Day Afternoon around the gay village today as the lesbian, transsexual and transgendered communities make their voices heard. Unlike tomorrow’s infamous Pride parade, which is expected to attract more than a million participants and spectators, this [...]

27Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

It’s easy to get a sex change in Iran

Gender reassignment is a way to deal with homosexuality in a place where gays are executed Hanna Rosin – The Star The poster for Be Like Others, a documentary that aired on HBO this week, looks like a CD cover for a glam-rock band. One gay-looking Adonis sits on the arm of a red leather [...]

27Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Disposable Income: How Gender and Sexuality Don’t Add Up to Equal Pay

John Caldon – Huffington Post June marks Pride Month, an annual celebration of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community’s struggle for full equity. Despite the huge strides made toward this goal over the last few decades, there remains much work to be done. The historical patterns of workplace discrimination and pay inequity among [...]

26Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

New Protections for Transgender Federal Workers

By JIM RUTENBERG – New York Times WASHINGTON — Lawyers for President Obama are quietly drafting first-of-their kind guidelines barring workplace discrimination against transgender federal employees, officials said Tuesday. The guidelines will be in an updated federal handbook for managers and supervisors to be distributed and posted online in the next couple of months, and [...]

26Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

New Protections for Transgender Federal Workers

By JIM RUTENBERG – New York Times WASHINGTON — Lawyers for President Obama are quietly drafting first-of-their kind guidelines barring workplace discrimination against transgender federal employees, officials said Tuesday. The guidelines will be in an updated federal handbook for managers and supervisors to be distributed and posted online in the next couple of months, and [...]

24Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Mexico City Gay Pride Parade Draws Thousands

MEXICO CITY – Thousands of Mexicans marched peacefully through central Mexico City in the 31st Gay Pride March at which they demanded improvements in gay rights, watched over by some 1,500 police. All transpired in calm at Saturday’s parade, Mexico City police department spokesmen said. The annual march by lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, transgender individuals [...]

22Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Obama extends gay health benefits

By Stephen Collinson WASHINGTON (AFP) — President Barack Obama Wednesday extended some federal health benefits to same-sex partners of US government workers, in what he said was a historic step towards equality for gays and lesbians. “Many of our government’s hardworking and dedicated patriotic public servants have long been denied basic rights … for one [...]

18Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transforming Pride

by Ethan Jacobs – Bay Windows n the midst of the many changes Boston’s LGBT community has seen over the past few decades Boston Pride has remained an enduring community tradition. This year, however, the focus of Pride is on change itself. The theme of this year’s Boston Pride, which kicked off June 5 with [...]

11Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Conference to address diverse trans-health issues

by Jen Colletta – The Philadelphia Gay News The eighth-annual Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference kicked off this week, with three days full of workshops, seminars, film screenings and activities meant to educate and empower the transgender community and its supporters. The conference is taking place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1201 Arch St., until June 13. [...]

11Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

City prepares for gay pride march

Times of India CHENNAI: They’re a section that’s often invisible in a society that still disapproves of alternative sexual choices and even criminalises homosexuality. But, for the first time, members of the lesbian , gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in the city are making their voice heard by celebrating LGBT Pride Month, with a [...]

11Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Australian Aims to Become First Transsexual Pro Footballer

By David Salter | Gaywired.com An Aussie Rules football fan is looking to become the first transsexual to play the competitive sport, according to an article in Sunday’s edition of The Age. Will, who asked not to use his last name, told The Age writer Jill Stark, “I’m just an ordinary guy who wants to [...]

10Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gay rights activist calls for march on Washington

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An activist who worked alongside slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk is calling for an October march on Washington to demand that Congress establish equal rights for the lesbian, gay and transgender community. Cleve Jones said Sunday in Salt Lake City that the march will launch a nationwide grass roots [...]

7Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Tough times prompt transgender job fair in L.A.

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Sydney Dupree came to Los Angeles because, as a young male-to-female transsexual, she found Memphis hostile. She came to the transgender job fair because jobs are hard for her to find, even in Los Angeles. Dupree has been frustrated by discrimination and employers who turn skittish when confronted [...]

6Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

New Hampshire Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

By ABBY GOODNOUGH – New York Times BOSTON — The New Hampshire legislature approved revisions to a same-sex marriage bill on Wednesday, and Gov. John Lynch promptly signed the legislation, making the state the sixth to let gay couples wed. The bill had been through several permutations to satisfy Mr. Lynch and certain legislators that [...]

4Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Venezuela ‘silent’ on hate crimes rise

By Will Grant BBC News, Caracas In a city where about 40 murders take place every weekend, it may not come as a big surprise that four prostitutes have been killed on the same stretch of road in Caracas in recent months. But when you find out that all four were transsexuals or transgender, it [...]

3Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Obama calls for equal rights for gays, but no promises on timetable

by Foon Rhee – Boston.com President Obama isn’t doing enough, quickly enough to suit many gay Americans, but today he did issue a proclamation for “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.” In the proclamation, Obama mentions the legislative priorities, including overturning the Defense of Marriage Act that defines marriage as between one man and [...]

2Jun2009 | | 2 comments | Continued

Pride Fest seeking allies in fight for rights

By Rosemary Winters – The Salt Lake Tribune The Utah Pride Center wants attendees of this week’s pride festival to bring more than rainbow flags and sunblock. Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender revelers have an assignment: Bring a straight friend. “Our allies are very important to us,” says Michael Westley, spokesman for the pride center. [...]

1Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Dunedin ordinance widen to include sexual orientation, gender identification

By Theresa Blackwell, St. Petersburg Times Staff Writer DUNEDIN — When a team of African-American police officers came down from Chicago 20 or 25 years ago to compete in the Highland Games tug-of-war, a local restaurant refused to serve them, City Attorney John Hubbard said. So Dunedin adopted an ordinance that requires businesses open to [...]

31May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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