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All Posts Tagged With: "gender"

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 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Gay Bar’s New ID Policy Is a Drag

Club requires ID that matches “gender presentation” By MATT BARTOSIK – NBC Chicago Gay men and lesbian women often joke about the “membership credentials” they must have in order to be gay, a.k.a. their “gay card.” But a popular gay bar in Elk Grove Village wasn’t kidding when it imposed a new policy, requiring an [...]

21Sep2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

No surgical sex change? No problem at BMV to alter gender on licenses

Those wishing a change need only a doctor’s statement to verify gender identity. By Marc Kovac – Vindy.com COLUMBUS — Ohioans wanting to change their gender on state-issued driver’s licenses or identification cards no longer have to have their body parts medically altered, under a new policy introduced by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles this [...]

20Sep2009 | Al Bornski | 0 comments | Continued

A transgender twist on Secrets

All-male cast lived the theme of a new play about black guys who keep it all inside Ashante Infantry – The Star Darren Anthony has always taken his big sister’s lead, following her into social work, sketch comedy, acting and now playwriting. As it’s said in their family: “Darren does what trey does.” He could [...]

20Sep2009 | Al Bornski | 0 comments | Continued

Boy, 12, turns into girl

By BRIAN FLYNN and VIRGINIA WHEELER – The Sun A BOY aged 12 turned up at school as a GIRL – after changing sex during the summer holidays. Teachers called an emergency assembly to order fellow pupils to treat him as female. The lad, whose parents have changed his name to a girl’s by deed [...]

18Sep2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

Nicole Kidman’s latest life-changing role: She’ll play first man to undergo sex change operation

BY Robert Dominguez – NY DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER She’s worn a fake nose to play a suicidal writer, battled spirits, Yankees, terrorists and space invaders – and spent a year on a movie set playing a sexually-frustrated wife opposite her real-life husband. Now, Nicole Kidman is taking on what could be her most challenging [...]

17Sep2009 | Sara | 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 | Sara | 1 comment | Continued

Texas companies improve on policies affecting gays, index finds

By SHERYL JEAN / The Dallas Morning News Top employers in Texas and across the nation are making progress in treating gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees fairly, according to a report released Monday by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. This year, 305 businesses achieved the Corporate Equality Index’s top rating of 100 percent for [...]

15Sep2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued

I became a woman at 70, says Sheffield ex miner

By Richard Blackledge – Sheffield Telegraph RACHEL Fleetwood is 75 years old, lives in a Sheffield nursing home – and is most likely Britain’s oldest transsexual. Rachel was in fact born Roy Colton in Brightside, Sheffield, in 1934 – but made the life-changing decision to change from being a man to a woman aged 70, [...]

14Sep2009 | Al Bornski | 0 comments | Continued

New film festival to shine spotlight on gay community

By Donecia Pea – Shreveport Times He’s the man with the diminutive stature and syrupy sweet Southern drawl that has endeared him to fans and kept them laughing for decades in his string of guest roles and recurring characters on some of TV’s biggest shows. But Leslie Jordan is most recognizable to fans for his [...]

12Sep2009 | Sara | 0 comments | Continued
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