[Nuclear]
Central alemã parada até 2010 após avarias em série
A central nuclear alemã de Krummel (norte), afectada recentemente por uma série de avarias nos transformadores eléctricos, não estará ao serviço antes da próxima Primavera, anunciou hoje o grupo sueco Vattenfall que a explora.

[Israel]
Dana International accused of racism
Famed transsexual singer Dana International has been accused of unleashing a torrent of racial abuse and threats this week against a pregnant, dark-skinned woman who recently immigrated from Britain.
The singer's manager, Shai Kerem, has denied the charges, adding that a lawsuit for slander was being planned. (Photo)

[Cuba/UK]
Big Strides in Gay and Transgender Rights in Cuba Mariela Castro Tells London Audience
Cuba has made big strides on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights in recent years, Mariela Castro told an audience at the Barbican Centre cinema on Saturday evening.
(Photo UK Gay News - Alberto Roque (left), Peter Tatchell and Mariela Castro at Pride London prior to their Q&A session on Cuban gay rights at The Barbican.)

[Venezuela]
Nuevo ataque transfobico en Venezuela
La organización Acción Zuliana por la Vida quiere expresar su más profunda preocupación, así como indignación, por el nuevo crimen de odio que enluta al colectivo LGBTTI del estado Zulia tras el vil asesinato de “Violeta” Vergara Conde.

[Australia]
Majority against discrimination
LGBTI activists say the results of a new poll which shows 85 percent of Australians support anti-discrimination laws are a ‘wake up call’ to the Australian Parliament.

[NM, USA]
Murdered man dressed as a woman
A man beaten to death this past weekend in a neighborhood just east of Presbyterian Hospital was dressed as a woman.
The Albuquerque Journal reports that 42-year-old Teri Benally, who was assaulted early Saturday morning near Coal and Maple, was the second case of a cross-dresser beaten to death in the past month.
Cross-dresser murdered in Albuquerque

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
An "insignificant" truth about common LGBT suicide
A trans person committed suicide in June.
Nobody reported it, and her death went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. The death did not end in a sensational court case, or in some bloody mess that news cameras caught before the Coroner could bring the covering over her face. Her story was, for all intents and purposes, not newsworthy in any way, shape, or form; it did not create any waves, nor did it generate traffic on websites. She was, for all intents and purposes, another face in the crowd, and her story isn't worthy of reporting here on Bilerico-IN.
There are important issues on the table right now. We can observe the increasing desperation in the Religious Right's attempts to vilify LGBT people, or the myriad piles of civil rights bills hitting governments' desks across the country. We can even speak of high-profile cases, like Teish. There's plenty to celebrate, and plenty to be happy about in the fight for our civil rights.
This does not change the fact that this girl is dead.

[NY, USA]
Beating was hate crime: LGBT groups
Elected officials and nonprofits are rallying behind a transgender Jackson Heights woman who was severely beaten by a pair of men in Woodside last month after the Queens district attorney’s office did not initially categorize the attack as a hate crime.

[FL, USA]
Man charged in silicone injection business
Excerpt: Hendrix, a transvestite, and his partner Mark Hawkins were accused of causing the death of a 53-year-old woman, Vera Lawrence of Miami, in March 2001. Lawrence died after attending an underground Miramar "pumping party" where she was injected with industrial-grade silicone in her buttocks, the newspaper reported. (Photo)
Transsexual Charged Again With Back-Alley Silicone Injections

[USA] [News/Commentary]
New bill prohibits discrimination against sexual orientation or gender identity
Representative Barney Frank just may be successful this time.
A new bill was introduced to Congress on June 24 which would prohibit unlawful employment practices against individuals because of their actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2009 (ENDA) is now under consideration in the House Judiciary Committee.

[USA] [Blog/People/History]
On Gay History, Or, This Is Not A Stonewall Story
Pride Month has come and gone, Gentle Reader, with no comment from this desk.
It’s not that I’m in some way insensitive to the subject; instead it’s more of a desire, once again, to stay off the beaten path.
And in that spirit, I do indeed have a story of Gay History... but it’s not from the Summer of ’69... instead, this story was already well underway before the Summer of ’29.
So put on something très chic and let’s head on over to Harlem...at the time of the Renaissance... because it’s time to meet Gladys Bentley.

[GA, USA]
Atlanta march demands transgender rights
In Atlanta on June 27, some 175 members of the transgender community and their supporters marched on the 40th anniversary of the historic Stonewall Rebellion, the militant birth of the modern trans, lesbian, gay, bi and queer movement in the U.S.

[MA, USA]
Back to Beacon Hill
The transgender community and its allies will return to Beacon Hill July 14 for a hearing before the Judiciary Committee on a bill to add trans-inclusive language to the state’s non-discrimination and hate crimes laws. The hearing will mark the second time the committee hears testimony on the bill, known this session as House Bill 1728 (H. 1728); the judiciary held a hearing last session, but the bill died in committee.

[ME, USA]
Court rules that boy who identifies as a girl should be allowed to use the girls bathroom
In Maine last week, the Maine Human Rights Commission ruled that a child who is biologically male but self-identifies as female must be allowed to use the girls bathroom at her school. The child, a fifth-grader, had been allowed to use the girls bathroom until another child began harrassing her. The other child, a non-transgender boy, was encouraged to use the girls bathroom whenever the transgender girl was using it. He also called the girl "faggot" and other slurs, and intimidated her, according to the Bangor Daily News.

[NY, USA]
Celebrate the late LaTiesha Green’s life
On Saturday July 11, from noon to 4 p.m., an event to remember LaTiesha Green, the 22-year old transgender woman who was killed on Nov. 14 will take place, at the First English Lutheran Church, 501 James St., Syracuse.

[Brasil]
MG: 400 pessoas participam da Parada Gay de Passos

A cidade mineira de Passos realizou na tarde do último domingo, 5, em frente ao prédio da prefeitura, a 3ª Parada Gay de Passos. Organizada pela Associação GLSBT de Passos, a festa começou por volta das 14h e teve sua abertura oficial às 15h30, reunindo pelo menos 400 pessoas, segundo a organização.

[UK]
Kate Craig-Wood: 'I'm lucky, many men would never pass for a woman'
Award winning businesswoman Kate Craig-Wood talks about her extraordinary transition from Robert.
(Photo: TOM STOCKILL - Kate Craig-Wood)

[Francia]
Justicia francesa condena a cuatro años de cárcel dos hombres que secuestraron trans
Dos hombres fueron condenados en Creteil, Francia, a una pena de cuatro años de prisión por haber secuestrado en julio de 2006 a una travesti peruana en el Bosque de Boulogne, en Paris, para robarle dinero.

[Turkey]
LGBT Refugees in Turkey Face Violence, Inadequate Police Protection
– ORAM – Organization for Refuge, Asylum & Migration published its research report today on perils facing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) asylum seekers and refugees in Turkey.
“Unsafe Haven: The Security Challenges Facing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Turkey” is a comprehensive account of the crushing burdens LGBT refugees face in a country that is increasingly a crossroads for mixed migration flows from Asia and Africa to Europe. Forced to endure violence and insufficient police protection, they are also deprived of basic services, including medical care.

[Chile]
Movilh pide a intendencia de Valparaíso medidas contra ataques a transexuales
Anoche dos personas transexuales padecieron una brutal golpiza en Valparaíso lo que sigue manteniendo a esta ciudad como “altamente peligrosa” para las minorías sexuales, señaló el Movilh. La instancia pidió al Intendente De la Maza reaccionar con urgencia a estos atropellos.

[Canada/Uganda]
Uganda's Most Wanted
Victor Mukasa crossed a line in his home country. He came out -- once as a lesbian, once as trans -- and decided not to stay silent about it. Now he fears the worst. (Photo)

[USA] [Commentary]
In vigilance we trust
Excerpt: For centuries, the transgender community has been one that was repeatedly misunderstood by society, misdiagnosed by doctors and psychiatrists, misjudged by law enforcement, and mistreated by family members and friends. Transgender persons throughout the world have faced discrimination from the earliest days of their existence, even in the most "open" and democratic of societies. Law had never been enough to govern the enemies of the community, whether religious, political, conservative, or flat out prejudiced – those who saw the transgender population as an independent branch, a domestic foe. Even parents have ordered their children to avoid contact with transgender people as if they carried an incurable, contagious disease.

[USA] [Commentary]
Transgender marriages, a religious quagmire
A young women contacted me through my website www.weddingsbythebay.net, asking to get married. She and her soon to be husband, Dave, wanted a nice beach wedding in Monterey, California. As that is what I do, I congratulated her on her upcoming wedding while I checked my calendar for available dates. We settled for a weekend in September and I began asking her about her plans for the wedding and her life in general.

[USA] [News/Commentary]
Employment Non-Discrimination Act reintroduced in Congress
New version includes protection of transgender workers

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Why we need the Matthew Shepard hate crimes bill
Once again, passage of a hate crimes bill seems to be in danger of stalling, this time in the United States Senate. In this case, the Matthew Shepard Hates Crimes Prevention Act -- a bill that would expand the definition of hate crimes to include crimes based on sexual orientation and disability -- is being targeted by the right. (Which, by the way, can't bring itself to call it the Matthew Shepard bill and instead abbreviates it as the HCPA, showing that homophobia is alive and well) Leading the charge against the Shepard bill is the United States Commission on Civil Rights, of which I am a member.

[USA]
Chaz wants sex change on TV
After announcing her intentions to undergo gender reassignment surgery, Chaz Bono, formerly known as Chastity, is reportedly fielding offers from producers to document the transformation for a reality TV show.

[CO, USA]
CU's 'Transgender 101': Born in the wrong body
An insecure man in his early 30s had been lost in the discomfort of his own body since puberty.
But in 1996, a glimpse of contentment surfaced when he -- dressed as Patsy Cline -- and attended a transvestite ball with his wife in Durango.
"When I got home from the ball, I just couldn't get out of those women's clothes for about two hours. I was just so excited and keyed up. It was the most amazing feeling of my life."
Seven years later, thanks to sex reassignment surgery, that man became Angela Palermo.

[NY, USA]
Transgender Model Loses Libel Case Against NY Post
The New York Post did not commit libel when it reported on the alleged sexual fantasies of a transgendered model who was suing a billionaire for sexual exploitation, a New York appellate division ruled.
Back in the News: Jeffrey Epstein and His Special Friend

[Brasil]
Filme sobre ícone transex brasileiro faz sua estreia mundial em festival de San Francisco
Ícone transex paulistano, Claudia Wonder está feliz da vida por conta da estreia do documentário “Meu Amigo Claudia” (Filmes Piloto), que conta sua trajetória de vida e artística, que rolou na 33ª edição do Frameline Lesbian and Gay Film Festival de San Francisco, nos Estados Unidos. Claudia marcou presença também como convidada especial da edição 2009 da Trans March de San Francisco. (Foto)

[Brasil]
Entidades LGBT pedem na Justiça para que transexuais tenham nome social aceito em documentos

Militantes de cinco entidades de defesa da cidadania LGBT enviaram nesta segunda-feira, 6, ofício à Procuradoria Geral da República pedindo para que ela interceda junto ao Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) na questão dos nomes sociais de pessoas trans.

[España]
Madrid: Marchan Gays por el Orgullo
Cientos de miles de personas colapsaron la capital española en la manifestación anual del Orgullo LGBT, en la que presumieron extravagantes vestimentas. La reivindicación de este año se centró en la normalización de la homosexualidad en las escuelas.
Madri: 1 milhão de pessoas participam de Parada Gay

[Reino Unido]
Parada de Londres reúne 500 mil pessoas
A Parada do Orgulho Gay levou meio milhão de pessoas às ruas de Londres neste sábado, 4. Os temas da Parada deste ano giraram em torno do como o combate à violência contra homossexuais e luta por igualdade no ambiente de trabalho.

[India]
Manipur male transsexuals hail court ruling
The male transsexuals in Manipur have welcomed the Delhi High Court ruling decriminalising homosexual relationships among consenting adults.

[EUA]
Mudança de sexo da filha da Cher pode virar reality show
Chastity (Chaz) Bono (foto), filha da cantora Cher, recebeu várias propostas para fazer seu processo de mudança de sexo virar um reality show exibido na TV fechada dos EUA. As informações são do jornal "The National Enquirer".

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Justice For Teish Update II
I'm doing regular updates of news concerning Lateisha Green's alleged killer Dwight DeLee's trial starting July 13.
We have a week to go until it starts at the Onondaga County Courthouse in Syracuse, NY. I plan to do these updates until justice is served.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Zucker: Reparative Therapy or Witchcraft?
Zucker, Green and their ilk practice an extremely vicious form of reparative therpy on transkids. Some might even go so far as to call it abuse. Zucker defends this by saying he isn’t trying to prevent transkids from growing up gay or lesbian merely to prevent them from growing up transsexual or transgender.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Dropping One's Pants To Prove One's Sex
Some days are better than others, I guess. From The Leaf Chronicle:
A disagreement at the local Social Security office Wednesday ended with one of the people dropping her pants.

[USA] [Commentary]
Streets of Baltimore: The Horrorshow at Old Goucher
Charles Village was established in 1869 as a neighborhood in the north-central area of Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
It is a racially diverse and middle-class area near Johns Hopkins University. The area has many single-family homes and is thought to be the first tract housing community in the United States.
The Old Gaucher neighborhood within the Village has become a magnet for all-night prostitution and related trafficking. Recently, the mix of prostitutes that patrol the area has changed, causing considerable alarm among the residents.

[USA]
Buck Angel: Self Made Man
He is one of the most famous porn stars in the world with an impressive collection of films under his belt. He has been photographed and captured by many artists worldwide. He is ruggedly handsome, layered in stunning tattoos and his pierced sexy muscled body is a stunning example of manhood. But there are plenty more other reasons why Californian born Buck Angel is so captivating and fascinating. Buck is a self made man like no other. He was born and raised as Susan. (Photo)

[ME, USA]
Feather Ruffled, Rights Upheld in Restroom Case Involving Transgender Child
Controversy surrounds the finding by the Maine Human Rights Commission that a transgendered child should have been allowed to use the girls’ bathroom because she identifies as female.

[CA, USA]
Trans March San Francisco 2009
2009 Trans March San Francisco took place in Dolores Park in the Mission District on Friday, June 26 with an event featuring speakers and performers from 3-7PM, followed by a march around the Mission. Trans March San Francisco continues to be the largest transgender event in the world. Listen to 37 minutes of audio form the event.

[International]
Celebra ONU despenalización de homosexualidad en India

La Agencia de Naciones Unidas contra el Sida expresó que el fallo del Tribunal Superior de Nueva Delhi es un precedente que favorecerá la lucha contra el Sida, pues se derogó una ley que impedía políticas de salud contra el VIH.

[UK]
PM's wife takes part in London Pride march

London's busiest shopping streets were brought to a standstill yesterday as the annual Pride march dazzled onlookers with a flamboyant and colourful display.
Sarah Brown, the prime minister's wife, joined the parade, which was organised by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups.

[UK]
Sex Swap Soldiers To Get New Medals
SOLDIERS who have had sex changes are to get their medals reissued to reflect their altered identity under new Ministry of Defence equality guidelines.

[UK]
2009 GIRES Award: "Guidelines on the Endocrine Treatment of Transsexual Persons"
The Gender Identity Research and Education Society (GIRES) is most grateful to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) for allowing its Award for 2009 to be announced on 18 June 2009 at the Biennial WPATH Symposium in Oslo, in the presence of HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway.The Award is made in recognition of influential published work that will improve the lives of gender variant people.

[Ireland]
Transsexual Rebecca finds joy with end to family feud
Ireland's most high-profile transsexual has revealed that she has reunited with her family whom she once claimed had disowned her.

[Russia]
Intersex baby born in Moscow - a dilemma for geneticists and parents to tackle
The long-awaited baby born to Sergey and Olga D., a family of young Muscovites, has turned out to be intersex, Russian website Life.ru reports.

[India]
We are no longer criminals, say capital’s eunuchs
'We are not criminals, never were,' a member of the capital's abused and suppressed transgender community said as the group erupted in joy after hearing of the Delhi High Court's decision to decriminalize consensual sex between consenting adults.

[India]
Sunday Celebrity:Transgender Noori is a ‘leading light’
Only a few days before Chennai had “pride march” conducted by the LGBT (lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders) community (June 28). The march was held in other cities too. Since the Delhi High Court’s landmark judgment legalising on July 2 homosexuality among consenting adults, holding law making it criminal offence is violative of fundamental rights, gays in the country go with a feeling of ‘gay abandon’; also their ilks. (Photo)

[GA, USA]
Atlanta’s March for Transgender Rights - June 27, 2009
It took my awhile, but I finally edited the video of the March for Transgender Rights.
Atlanta’s Rally for Transgender Rights, June 27, 2009

[KS,USA]
Couple speak out on transgender issues
A lot has changed for Jay Pryor between the time he moved from Lawrence in 1999 until moving back in 2007.
For starters, in 1999 Jay Pryor was a woman named Janet Pryor finishing up her bachelor’s degree in communications studies at Kansas University.

[VT, USA]
Retreat offering new LGBT treatment option

For 175 years, the Brattleboro Retreat has remained in business by staying one step ahead of the rest of the mental health field.
Next week, the psychiatric hospital continues in that tradition by opening a new inpatient mental health and addiction treatment program designed exclusively for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender patients.

[Nuclear]
Por mais dois anos Espanha rompe dogma sobre abandono do nuclear e decide prolongar vida da central Garoña
O Governo socialista espanhol rompeu ontem o dogma sobre o abandono progressivo do nuclear, defendido com o seu programa eleitoral, em benefício das energias renováveis ao decidir prolongar por dois anos a exploração da central de Garoña, que deveria ser desmantelada em 2011.

[España]
Más de un millón de personas en el Orgullo de Madrid
Cientos de miles de personas han colapsado hoy el centro de Madrid bailando y cantando tras carrozas multicolores y pancartas en favor de la 'diversidad afectivo-sexual' en la educación como parte de la marcha del Orgullo Gay. (Foto)
Colegas se desvincula de la fiesta del orgullo gay y la tacha de estereotipo
Parada gay leva mais de 1 milhão às ruas de Madri

[Reino Unido]
Parada gay em Londres
Uma parada gay percorreu este sábado as ruas do centro de Londres, no âmbito do Festival de gays em Londres.
Segundo a EPA, esta parada é considerada um dos maiores eventos no seio da cultura de gays e lésbicas, por promover a diversidade e chamar a atenção para as formas de discriminação.
O desfile contou com a presença do cantor Boy George, na sua primeira aparição após a libertação em Maio.

(Foto EPA/DANIEL DEME)

[UK]
Award-winning female manager was born a man
Of all those named in a new list of young female business leaders, Kate Craig-Wood has perhaps the most unusual success story. She was born male, and was able to afford a £50,000 sex change operation after developing a career in technology.
(Photo: MALCOLM CASE-GREEN - Born Robert Hardy Craig-Wood, she knew from an early age she should have been a woman but fear of the unknown meant she did not address the issue until her marriage began to fail.)

[Turkey]
Istanbul Pride Parade 2009
Visitors to Istanbul's "European face" of Beyoglu got a bit more than they bargained for today as Istanbul's out GBLTT community capped off its Pride Week 2009 with the Istanbul Pride Parade.
Though I've been to my share of Pride Parades and usually had a good time, Istanbul Pride feels a bit more special to me, because with the exception of Indonesia, I'm not aware of Pride celebrations in any other predominantly Muslim country. Homosexuality is not illegal in Turkey, but aside from intense societal pressure to hide, conform, get married and have kids, there are also vague laws about behavior "contrary to general morals and customs" and "the Turkish family structure." Most recently this has been used as one pretext in an attempt by the Istanbul district governor to shut down Istanbul's prime Gay and Lesbian organization, Lambda Istanbul. So though there is a celebratory mood and a lot of laughter, the first purpose is still to tell the public "we're here, we're everywhere, accept it." There are no "Queers with Corgies" here.
3,000 People in LGBTT Pride March
LGBTT Onur Yürüyüşüne Yaklaşık 3 Bin Kişi Katıldı

[India]
Meet Rose, Chennai's first transgender TV anchor
It has not been an easy journey for Rose, a Chennai-based TV show host and a transgender.
Rose is now all set to produce and direct her own show. No wonder then, she particularly welcomes the Delhi High Court's historic judgement on Section 377, decriminalising homosexuality.
(Photo: ONE-OF-A-KIND: Rose first made news as a one-of-a kind transgender host of a chat show called Ippadikku.)

[India/Tailandia]
India y Tailandia reconocen por ley un tercer sexo
En 2005, el gobierno de Tailandia adhirió un tercer sexo a los pasaportes de sus ciudadanos: E, de Eunuco; En la India, hay una tradición milenaria por los Hidrja, que son hombres vestidos de mujer
Gays, lesbianas, bisexuales y transexuales celebran hoy el día del orgullo gay, desconocedores en muchos casos de que en otras partes del mundo como en la India o Tailandia existe un tercer sexo, reconocido socialmente e incluso a veces por la ley.
El tercer sexo incluye a personas que no se consideran ni hombres ni mujeres, sino pertenecientes a un sexo intermedio.

[Bermuda]
Bermuda's gays plan Pride parade on island
Bermuda's gays and ­lesbians hope to parade through the streets of their home island once they have had "a practice run" at London's Gay Pride.

[Ecuador]
Grupos GLBT desfilaron en Quito
Con banda de pueblo y música nacional, a las 15:00 se desarrolló en Quito la marcha por el Día Internacional del orgullo gay.
Al menos 100 integrantes de los grupos GLBT (gay, lesbianas, bisexuales y transgéneros) se concentraron entre las avenidas Colón y Juan León Mera.
De allí caminaron hasta la avenida Amazonas, posteriormente tomaron la Veintimilla hasta llegar a la plaza Foch.
El evento organizaron grupos como Kimirina, Casa de la hermana Trans y Fundación Equidad. También lograron el apoyo de la Policía, Municipio de Quito y Ministerio de Cultura.

[Paraguay]
Marcharon en Asunción en reclamo de derechos y buen trato
Con el lema "Elegí ser libre, Exigí tus derechos", las organizaciones: Aireana, Amnistía Paraguay, La Comuna, GAGLT, PARAGAY y PANAMBÍ, realizaron este sábado la Sexta Marcha por los Derechos de Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales, Transgeneros e Intersex de Paraguay.

[Chile]
Corte chilena reconoce a mujer transexual
Al nacer fue identificada legalmente con nombre y sexo masculinos, pero siempre se sintió mujer. Hoy la Corte de Apelaciones de Santiago le dio la razón a Alison Constanza Ruiz Martínez, y nunca más deberá pasar por las humillaciones del pasado.

[Argentina]
El mundo travesti de Constitución
La zona roja del barrio es objeto de una investigación que se volvió libro. Discriminación, submundos y códigos callejeros contados desde adentro.

[Australia/UK]
Transgender woman heads back to UK for school reunion
School reunions can be a nerve-racking experience for anyone.
So spare a thought for the 39-year-old Brisbane anti-spamming expert Michelle Sullivan, who will next week travel to her former home town in the English county of Norfolk to see her past schoolmates for the first time in more than two decades.
It will be the first time she sees them as a woman.
The transgender Griffith University technical specialist began her transition from male to female with a course of testosterone blockers and then hormones two years ago but to her old friends at West Flegg High School near the city of Great Yarmouth, she was just the young boy from the schoolyard.
(Photo: When Michelle Sullivan goes to her school reunion in the United Kingdom, it will be the first time her former schoolmates have seen her as a woman.)

[Canada]
Two spirited people
Anthropologists have been able to trace “two spirited” people back to the earliest discoveries of indigenous artifacts but for Ron Indian-Mandamin, their purpose as gender mediators began before time.
(Photo: Jon Thompson - Ron Indian-Mandamin spoke for nearly three hours at Lakewood School on the purpose of two spirited people to the Creator s ultimate aim for peace on Earth.)

[USA]
What Plastic Surgery Will Cher’s daughter Chastity Need To Become A Man?
Chastity Bono, daughter of pop royalty Sunny Bono and plastic surgery fan Cher has recently announced her intention to become male via a sex change and henceforth be identified as Chaz. With a sex change often comes plastic surgery to help the patient’s outside better match their inside.

[NY, USA]
Transgender Woman Attacked in Queens
Leslie Mora, a transgender woman, was walking to her home in Queens at 3:00 a.m. when she was brutally attacked by two Latino men who left her on the ground naked and bleeding, reports El Diario/La Prensa.

[USA] [Commentary]
Trans etiquette for non-trans people
Although it is difficult to estimate the number of trans people in Denver and in Colorado, trans people are becoming increasingly visible in our state.

[Natureza]
Espécies em risco de extinção aumentam
Brasil apresenta o maior número de espécies de pássaros ameaçados

[India]
Chilling tales of hurt, humiliation
For the lawyers arguing to decriminalise homosexuality, it became crucial to demonstrate the actual harm that Section 377 caused — the Government was claiming that since few were convicted under this section, the law itself was benign. To counter this, affidavits were produced before court — first person accounts of those brave enough to publicise their names, describing harassment that was often too horrific to read out in open court.

[India]
IPC 377 rarely invoked in Tamil Nadu
Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which prescribes life term for “carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal”, has seldom been invoked in Tamil Nadu to book homosexuals or even harass transgenders over the years, according to senior police officers.

[India]
61 SHGs formed for welfare of transgenders
Social Welfare Minister Geetha Jivan on Thursday said that 61 self-help groups (SHGs) have been formed for the welfare of the transgenders in the State.

[USA] [Commentary]
Why Chaz Matters
It was the fastest anyone has ever come out trans. Within moments of TMZ’s June 11 announcement, emails, text messages, tweets and retweets zipped the news around the globe: Cher’s daughter Chasity Bono, was transitioning from lesbian to male.
Cher Urges Chastity To Reject TV Documentary Offers

[USA]
Two Ga. congressmen co-sponsor ENDA
U.S. Reps. John Lewis and Hank Johnson, both Democrats from the Atlanta area, are the only two Congress members from Georgia to sign on as co-sponsors to an employment non-discrimination bill that includes protections for gay and transgender people.
ENDA is back

[PA,USA]
Jogger Finds Dead Man Dressed in Drag
A jogger found a dead man, wearing women’s clothing, in Fairmount Park Wednesday morning, police sources told NBC 10.
Body found in Fairmount Park is identified

[GA, USA]
Judge: Trans lawsuit against Ga. lawmakers can continue
A federal court has refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a transgender woman who accuses lawmakers and staff at the Georgia General Assembly of illegally firing her after learning of her gender transition.

[GA, USA]
Stonewall Week honors start of modern LGBT movement
Excerpt: While there was no Pride parade through the heart of Midtown this year, a large, lively crowd joined the “Transgender Rights Now” march through Little Five Points and Inman Park. Organized by Human Rights Atlanta, a queer-friendly coalition of more than 70 different organizations, the march was one of a series of events aimed to focus attention on transgender issues.

[MA, USA]
Ad Campaign Fights Transgender 'Bathroom Bill'
They call themselves transgendered -- people who are attempting to become members of the opposite sex.
Thirteen states have laws to protect them from discrimination. But an effort on Beacon Hill is being fought with an ad campaign that calls it "the bathroom bill."

[MD, USA]
Transgendered Prostitutes Becomming a Nuissance in Old Goucher
Prostitution is an on-going problem in parts of Baltimore, and in one neighborhood, a very specific kind of prostitution has become a serious concern.People who live in the Old Goucher neighborhood say transgendered prostitutes flock to the area every night -- and they say police aren't doing enough to keep them out.

[NY, USA]
East Side Assault Reflects Larger Trend
Excerpt: Transgendered New Yorkers, a relatively small percentage of the overall LGBT community, continue to bear a disproportionate — and growing — share of this violence. Six transgendered men and 62 trans women — or 15 percent of the total — were among the 435 victims of the crimes AVP documented.

[TN,USA]
Customer drops pants to prove gender
A disagreement at the local Social Security office Wednesday ended with one of the people dropping her pants.

[Nuclear]
Central nuclear espanhola de Garoña fecha em 2013

A central nuclear de Santa María de Garoña (Burgos) fechará no dia 1 de Abril de 2013, dois anos depois do período inicialmente previsto para o seu encerramento.

[Portugal]
Conferência com o tema “Transexualidade e Cidadania”

Conferência com o tema “Transexualidade e Cidadania” inserida no LGBT Cultural 2009 no dia 10 de Julho.

Este evento é um ciclo cultural de temática lgbt que incluirá conferências, debates e sessões de cinema independente sobre História, Saúde Sexual e Psicológica, Performance Art Queer-LGBT e Sociedade Civil.

Terá lugar no Espaço de Intervenção Cultural “Maus Hábitos” no Porto do dia 07 ao dia 10 de Julho.

É um evento gratuito.

[Indonesia]
Transsexuals in Yogyakarta to Abstain from Voting

Around 350 transsexuals in Yogyakarta have agreed to abstain from voting in the presidential election on July 8.

They consider that none of the presidential candidates include them on their programs.

[Argentina]
Intendente de Pilar entregó materiales de trabajo a cooperativa de travestis

Este miercoles, el gobierno local entregó herramientas a cooperativas de trabajo del distrito, entre ellas, una integrada por un grupo de travestis que mantuvieron una confrontación por discriminación con el intendente Humberto Zúccaro el pasado mes de marzo.

[Argentina]
Permitirán a una mujer el cambio de sexo

Una mujer que psicológicamente "funciona" como hombre cambiará de sexo y también de documento de identidad con el aval de la Cámara Civil porteña.

[Argentina]
Realizaron la Marcha del Orgullo LGTB en Rosario

El viernes 26 de junio a las 1845 hs partió de la esquina de San Luís y Corrientes la Segunda Marcha del Orgullo Lésbico, Gays, Trans y Bisexual organizada por VOX ASOCIACION CIVIL que incluye a las sedes de Rosario, Santa Fe y Reconquista, salió en medio de los cánticos, bombas de estruendo, bombos y redoblantes que hacían sonar fuertemente las lesbianas.

[USA]
US to pay in transgender bias lawsuit

The Obama administration is not fighting a court judgment of nearly $500,000 for a Library of Congress hire who lost the job while undergoing a gender change from a man to a woman.

Special Forces veteran wins suit on sex change
ACLU welcomes decision not to fight discrimination
HRC Releases Statement On Schroer V. Billington Ruling

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
ENDA: Personal Stories Will Make The Difference

On Monday of this week, I was fortunate to be one of 250 guests invited to the White House for President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama’s reception honoring the 40th anniversary of Stonewall. Like many of my fellow attendees, I was anxious to hear what the President had to say about how he planned to honor his campaign commitments to the LGBT community. He reiterated his administration’s efforts to pass a transgender inclusive ENDA, which is a policy already in place in at least 176 Fortune 500 companies. This followed a June 18th Oval Office event where President Obama further demonstrated his Administration’s commitment to LGBT equality in the Federal workplace by signing a presidential memorandum that will give Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry the authority to ban workplace discrimination for all members of the LGBT community.

[GA, USA]
Federal Judge Finds Dismissal of Transgendered Employee May Violate the Constitution

U.S. District Judge Richard W. Story ruled on June 25 that Georgia legislative officials may have violated the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause when they terminated an employee because she was undergoing gender transition. Rejecting a motion to dismiss by five Georgia officials who are charged with responsibility for the dismissal decision, Judge Story found that Vandiver Elizabeth Glenn’s complaint "clearly states a claim for denial of equal protection" on alternative theories of sex discrimination or discrimination on the basis of a medical condition, gender identity disorder. Glenn v. Brumby, 2009 Westalw 1849951 (N.D.Ga.).

[ME, USA]
Discrimination found in school bathroom complaint

The Maine Human Rights Commission says the Orono School Department discriminated against a transgender child who was denied access to the girls' restroom.

Gender identity issues challenge state commission

[DC, USA]
Frank introduces trans-inclusive ENDA bill

The LGBT community erupted in anger 20 months ago when U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., introduced a version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act ( ENDA ) that excluded protection for “gender identity.” Critics also charged that the 2007 ENDA was “riddled with loopholes” that significantly weakened protections even for lesbians and gay men in the workplace. Frank said a bill including protections for transgendered people simply didn't have the votes.

[USA] [Blog/Comentary]
CNN: Transgender People are Here to Stay

CNN had an article online last week titled "Commentary: Transgender people are everywhere," by a transsexual woman named Donna Rose. She starts out reminding us of Chaz Bono, Sonny and Cher's kid, formerly named Chastity, who recently announced that he was transitioning from a female to male gender identity. This is a high-profile celebrity transition, Rose says, but it is not such a rare event.

[Brasil]
AM: Professora trans diz estar sendo impedida de dar aulas

A professora amazonense Vitória Angello Bacon denunciou ao Ministério Público que vem sendo impedida de exercer suas funções profissionais em uma escola de Manaus. Vitória, que é transexual, alega estar fora da sala de aula por conta do preconceito explicitado por alunos e outros professores.

[UK]
BB's Angel to 'have sex change'
'Big Brother' evictee Angel is planning to have a sex change.
The Russian-born boxer wants to become a man and has consulted gender realignment specialists in London.

[Saudi Arabia]
Cross-dressing men arrested
Saudi Arabian authorities have charged 67 men detained at a party for reportedly wearing women’s clothing.

[USA]
Employment Non-Discrimination Act reintroduced in the House
A bill (H.R. 2981) that would provide employment discrimination protections to individuals based on their sexual orientation or gender identity was introduced June 19, 2009, by Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass). Called the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), the bill would extend federal employment laws, which currently prevent employment discrimination on the basis of race, religion, gender, national origin, age and disability, to also cover sexual orientation and gender identity.

[USA]
Being a Gay Man in a Woman's Body
In the book, Everyday Heaven I wrote of feeling like I was a gay man in a woman's body. I recently stumbled upon others who have written the same and the comments they received showed how those who don't experience this simply have no idea.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]

Another sister attacked

You wonder why I make some efforts to preserve my anonymity? This is why.I bring you the sad news that yet another of my sisters has been brutally assaulted, this time in Queens. Two men accosted her as she walked home from a nightclub, at 2:30am on the 19th. Shouting "faggot" in Spanish at her, they beat her until a passing motorist stopped to threaten to call police. Police found her nearly naked, and bleeding on the sidewalk. The object used to assault her was found nearby.

[ME, USA]
State rules in favor of young transgender
The Maine Human Rights Commission ruled Monday that the Orono School Department discriminated against a transgender child by denying her access to the girls bathroom.
While the school department’s lawyer warned that schools around the state may not be ready to manage the practical fallout from the decision, civil liberties advocates hailed the ruling as an advancement of human rights.

[CA, USA]
6th Annual March for Transgender Pride
The 6th annual Trans March took a different route than in years past, starting at Dolores Park where several thousand people gathered, and forming a march that traveled through the Mission district.

[Brasil]
TO: Parada de Palmas reúne 10 mil pessoas

A sexta edição da Parada Gay de Palmas, em Tocantins, rolou no último domingo, 28, reunindo 10 mil pessoas, segundo a organização.

[Brasil]
Em clima bem família, Parada Gay de Alfenas, no sul de MG, leva 25 mil pessoas às ruas

O Dia Mundial do Orgulho Gay também foi celebrado em Minas Gerais. No último domingo, 28, Alfenas sediou a VI Parada do Orgulho GLTTBS do Sul de Minas. De acordo com a organização e com a Polícia Militar, 25 mil pessoas saíram às ruas estreitas da cidade universitária, que possui 75 mil habitantes.

[España]
Celebra Barcelona su primera Marcha Gay
Más de 35 mil personas asistieron este domingo a la primera Marcha del Orgullo LGBT en la capital catalana. En el acto participaron decenas de organizaciones, así como 27 entidades del colectivo gay. Todos desfilaron en un ambiente lúdico y festivo.

[Turkey]
3,000 People in LGBTT Pride March
On Sunday, a crowd of 3,000 marched from Taksim to Galatasaray Square as part of the 17th LGBTT Pride Week.

[Pakistan]
Pakistan to recognise eunuchs
After decades of ignominy and exploitation as painted dancers, singers and beggars, Pakistan’s “third sex” is to be officially surveyed and registered under the direction of the Supreme Court.

[India]
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Rainbow Pride March in Chennai
For the first time in Chennai, a South Indian city hitherto considered “conservative”, the LGBT movement managed to stage a Rainbow Pride March on Sunday to break barriers on sexual orientation. People of all nationalities—young and old, gay and straight gathered on the Marina Beach and walked the stretch to influence public opinion favoring a more tolerant society that accepts sexual minorities.
‘We don’t encourage transgenders’
Pain, progress and a pride march

[Canadá]

Cerca de un millón de participantes en la Marcha del Orgullo Gay en Toronto
Cerca de un millón de personas asistieron hoy a la vigésimo novena Marcha del Orgullo Gay de la ciudad canadiense de Toronto, el mayor evento de este tipo en el continente americano.

[Canada] [Commentary]
Bill Siksay: Sex reassignment surgery deserves full coverage across Canada
What are the limits of medicare coverage? Does prejudice against an identifiable minority affect decisions about who gets covered? Does “medically necessity” not apply to minority communities?

[NY, USA]
Transgender Woman Brutally Beaten in Queens
We're sad to bring you the news of another brutal attack on a transgender woman, this one coming during the height of LGBT Pride month. On June 19, 2009, at approximately 2:30 am, Leslie Mora was walking home from a nightclub on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens when she was accosted by two men who brutally beat her with a belt. They stopped only when a passing motorist threatened to call the police. Throughout the attack, Leslie’s assailants called her a “faggot” in Spanish. The attack left Leslie with multiple injuries, including bruises all over her body, and stitches in her scalp. Police called to the scene found Leslie nearly naked and bleeding on the sidewalk. They also recovered a belt buckle from the assailants that was covered in blood.
(photo by Laura Vogel - Leslie Mora)
[Blog/Commentary] Why Is One of These Attacks a Hate Crime, While the Other One Isn't?

[PA, USA]
Transgender Riders Take On TransPass
The transgender community takes on SEPTA’s TransPass (ironically enough) Tuesday. That little “M” or “F” sticker identifying a rider’s gender is enough to cause economic hardship, harassment and lack of access to public transportation for the transgender community, according to Riders Against Gender Exclusion (RAGE).

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Let the revolution continue
Forty years ago, queer people famously fought back against the police when they raided a bar called the Stonewall Inn in New York City. It was a time when people whose sexual orientation or gender identity set them apart from society had begun to form political, social, religious and cultural institutions where they could gather with like-minded people. The revolutionary impact of Stonewall was not that organizing hadn’t taken place before; it was that when the police cracked down on the patrons of the Stonewall Inn, they were met with people willing to defend their rights with increasing strength. Symbolically, it meant that government and societal oppression would not be simply accepted or left unchallenged.

[Brasil]
Ministério Público sugere que prefeitura de SP proíba Parada na Paulista. Organizadores são contra
O Ministério Público de São Paulo vai sugerir à Prefeitura que a Parada Gay não mais aconteça na Paulista. Segunda o procurador do MP que cuida do caso, a sugestão é baseada em informações policiais e visa proteger a integridade e segurança dos participantes do evento e dos moradores da região.

Parada Gay 2009 (Fotoreportagem)

[Brasil]
Parada celebra o dia do Orgulho Gay na Redenção
O Dia do Orgulho Gay, celebrado neste 28 de junho, foi marcado por manifestações com shows e reivindicações em Porto Alegre. Quem foi ao Parque da Redenção pôde acompanhar a movimentação de um dos encontros — a MINI Parada.
(Foto:Fernando Gomes - Palco foi montando junto à rótula da Avenida Paulo Gama.)
Ativistas promovem Parada "independente" em Porto Alegre

[Brasil]
Parada Gay no Centro de Joinville
O domingo estava frio e chuvoso. Nem de longe dava sinais de que seria divertido. Mas quem resolveu aparecer na avenida Beira-rio, no Centro de Joinvile, durante a tarde de ontem, deparou-se com uma grande festa em plena rua. A Parada Gay, evento que a organização batizou de Parada da Diversidade, fechou uma semana cheia de discussões a respeito da homossexualidade e do preconceito. O desfile teve todos os ingredientes que a receita da democracia pede: respeito, dignidade e liberdade.
Primeira Parada Gay de Joinville recebe 5 mil pessoas

[Brasil]
Dia Mundial do Orgulho LGBT é celebrado aos pés do Cristo Redentor
Girassóis amarelos coloriram a manifestação realizada pelo Grupo Arco-Íris e outras entidades em defesa dos direitos dos homossexuais, que reuniram cerca de 60 pessoas, além de turistas, na manhã de domingo no Cristo Redentor. O encontro celebrou o Dia Mundial do Orgulho LGBT (lésbicas, gays, bissexuais e transgêneros) e chamou atenção para o projeto de lei 122/2006, que prevê a criminalização das práticas de homofobia e que ainda está em tramitação no Senado.
(Foto Ana Branco - O Globo/Manifestação no Cristo Redentor em comemoração ao Dia Mundial do Orgulho LGBT.)
Manifestantes LGBT pedem pelo fim da homofobia aos pés do Cristo Redentor
Flores no Cristo

[Brasil]
650 mil pessoas desfilam na 10a. Parada de Fortaleza _incluíndo a prefeita
A capital cearense confirmou contar com a terceira maior Parada gay do Brasil e uma das maiores do mundo. 650 pessoas estiveram neste domingo, 28, na Avenida Beira Mar, cartão postal da cidade, para a 10a. edição do evento. Para comparação, no mesmo dia, Paris realizou sua Parada com 500 mil pessoas, e Berlim com 400. (Foto)

[Brasil]
50 mil pessoas participam da Parada Gay de Campinas
Cerca de 50 mil pessoas, segundo cálculo da PM, estiveram neste domingo, 28, na 9a. Parada LGBT de Campinas. Já os organizadores do evento preferiram não estimar público, mas afirmaram que neste ano observaram mais gente presente que no ano anterior, quando a PM estimou em 80 mil o número de pessoas.

[França]
Parada de Paris reúne 700 mil pessoas, incluindo Liza Minelli
A atriz e cantora Liza Minelli apareceu de surpresa na Parada Gay de Paris, ocorrida neste domingo, 28. Ela manteve-se a frente das cerca de 700 mil pessoas que desfilaram pela capital francesa, tendo o punho para o alto e o sorriso intacto.
Parada Gay em Paris, na França (Fotoreportagem)

[Alemanha]

Parada de Berlim reúne 550 mil pessoas

A Parada Gay de Berlim (Christopher Street Day) reuniu neste sábado, 27, 550 mil pessoas, segunda estimou os organizadores do evento. Entre os participantes da parada estavam o prefeito de Berlim, Klaus Wowereit, e outros políticos. Com 55 carros alegóricos, a manifestação ocorreu de forma pacífica e sem ocorrências policiais.

[Israel]
Parada gay de Tel Aviv, Israel - 12/06/2009

Fotoreportagem

[Nepal]
Third Gender Assert Rights
Two years ago, 23-year-old Bhakti Shah, a cadet in the Nepal Army, was dismissed because she was seen to spend most of her free time with a fellow female cadet.

[India]
Govt faces hurdles in repeal of anti-gay law
It is too early for the gay and lesbian community to celebrate the government's talk of decriminalising homosexuality. The centre will find it very difficult to build a consensus on the issue, with religious leaders already rejecting the idea of repealing section 377of the Indian Penal Code and opposition parties asking the government to exercise caution.
India: Exhortan a despenalizar actos homosexuales

[India]
Rainbow for all
Overriding Section 377 and social sitgma, Gay Pride March has become an annual ritual in the Capital. Last year, however, when the first-ever parade was held in Delhi, it was not inclusive of all sections — the transgender felt left out. The complaint is not unique to Delhi. For a long time, gay pride marches across the world are said to have ignored the transgender, who claim they have been sidelined and are the pariahs within the LGBT community.

[India]
Show of solidarity for rights of sexual minorities in Chennai
Excerpt: Many expressed hope that societal sensitivity would bring some succour to their daily lives. “We want a proper place to stay and employment opportunities. It can happen only if society gives us sanction,” said Shankari, talking about the issues of the transgender community.
(Photo : M. Vedhan - Participants at the first Chennai Rainbow Pride March held in Chennai on Sunday.)

[America Latina]
Festejan países latinos Día del Orgullo LGBT
Mientras gays peruanos denunciaron que su gobierno es el más homofóbico de Latinoamérica, en Chile el Orgullo Gay aplacó el frío invernal. Por su parte, El Salvador y Bolivia reprobaron los actos y crímenes de odio contra personas LGBT.

[Colombia]
Thousands in Colombia march for gay rights
Plastic surgeons must have been working overtime in the lead up to the annual Gay Pride March held Sunday around the country. Fake boobs and butts were on display as thousands of Colombia's gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals took to the streets to celebrate their sexual preferences and defend their rights. (Photo)

[Canadá]
Parada de Toronto reúne um milhão de pessoas

Sob o lema "Don’t Stop, Won’t Stop" (Não Para, Não Vai Parar), cerca de 1 milhão de pessoas participaram neste domingo, 28, da Parada de Toronto, no Canadá, uma das maiores do mundo.

[USA] [Commentary]
Hate Crimes Bill Would Federalize Criminal Law, Revive Double Jeopardy
Among its many defects, the proposed federal hate crimes bill virtually ensures that some defendants will face double jeopardy, whatever the outcome of their cases. It all depends on the whims of the folks occupying the Attorney General’s office, who may want to score political points at a defendant’s expense.
The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act (S. 909) now before the Senate, establishes “thought crime,” violates equal protection by making some victims more important than others, elevates “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to be equivalent to civil rights categories like race, and greatly expands the federal role in criminal law.

[USA] [Commentary]
Stonewall Hug a Tranny/Butch Day
Today is the 40th anniversary of Stonewall. The gay community has come a long way in the last 40 years, though we have a long way to go. June has been gay pride month since cities around the world started dispersing their Stonewall celebrations throughout the month. Now that Obama has made June officially gay pride month in the U.S., I propose a new tradition to celebrate Stonewall: Hug a Tranny/Butch day.
Conmemoran gays 40 aniversario del Stonewall

[UK]

Sex change ops on the NHS have trebled... since the procedure became a 'right'

The number of people having sex-change operations on the NHS each year has almost trebled since the procedure became a ‘right’.
More than 1,000 people have had the surgery in a decade, costing the taxpayer up to £10million.
Eighty per cent of the operations are to change a man into a woman.
In addition to surgery, transsexuals can also get psychotherapy and hormone replacement therapy on the NHS.

[India]

Transgender groups demand right to life

People belonging to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups took out a rally here on Saturday, demanding their right to life and dignity.
Christened ‘Rainbow Pride Walk,’ the rally was attended by those from sexual minority groups.
“Those with alternative sexualities and gender identities are expressions of diversity of humanity. We are not suffering from physical or mental illness. Our sexualities and gender are not the result of western culture or media influence; nor are they indicators of cultural degradation,” Subham Mishra, a leading gay activist, said.

(Photo: Lingaraj Panda — Members of the sexual minority group taking out a rally in Bhubaneswar on Saturday.)

Maiden rainbow pride walk - Sexual minorities from 10 districts join hands

[India]

India to review gay sex laws: report

India is set to review its long-standing laws barring gay sex, in a move that could decriminalise homosexuality in the largely conservative country, a report says.

Consensual sex between same-sex adults is punishable by a fine and a 10-year prison term under the Indian Penal Code, and most politicians have resisted amending the statute which dates back to British rule.

[USA] [Commentary]

The Real Stonewall Legacy

Waiting our turn isn't working. Asking nicely isn't working. What will work is what worked that fateful night at Stonewall.

[Jamaica]

Debate on sexual offences bill continues

DEBATE on the Sexual Offences Bill continued in Gordon House last week with lawmakers making additional recommendations as to how it could be further tightened before being passed into law.

Block loopholes in proposed sex laws - Senator

[Canada]

Dyke March hits the streets

Tens of thousands of lesbian, transsexual and transgendered participants danced on downtown streets today to celebrate the annual Dyke March, part of Pride weekend that wraps up with a massive parade tomorrow.

Showing pride in T.O. (Photo gallery)

[CA, USA]

5th Trans March in SF

Several thousand people gathered in Dolores Park to demand equality for the Trans Community. This was followed by a spirited march to 26th and Valencia. The march was the 5th trans march in San Francisco that began in 2004 to honor Gwen Araujo, a young transgendered woman who was brutally murdered in Newark California in November of 2002. (Photo on top and bottom)

[Internacional]
Masivas manifestaciones para celebrar el Día del Orgullo LGTB en todo el mundo
Miles de personas se dieron cita en diferentes capitales alrededor del mundo para conmemorar el 40º Aniversario de la Revuelta de Stonewall, o también conocido como Día Mundial del Orgullo Gay, Lesbico, Travesti, Transexual, Bisexual.

[UK]
Transexual wins surgery funding
A transsexual from Nottinghamshire has won her fight with the NHS to be given hormone treatment and surgery to change sex from a man to a woman. (Photo)

[Lituania]
El presidente de Lituania veta la ley que prohíbe hablar de homosexualidad en las escuelas
El presidente de Lituania, Valdas Adamkus, ha ejercido su derecho de veto y ha devuelto al Parlamento de su país la ley “para la protección de menores contra el efecto perjudicial de la información pública”, recientemente aprobada, que como venimos informando prohíbe hablar sobre lesbianas, gays, transexuales y bisexuales en el sistema educativo.

[Iran] [Film/Commentary]
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

[India]
Bangalore makes a queer pitch
This year, Bangalore has given Pride celebrations a distinct local flavour with a week-long celebration titled the Karnataka Queer Habba. It began with a bang with an innovative cricket match. Titled “Queering the Pitch”, the match saw teams from different LGBT organisations pitted against each other. A live and humorous commentary interspersed with messages about LGBT rights and safe sex practices, ensured that no one was bored even for a minute. The Sangama team emerged the undisputed winner and was handed a trophy designed with queer symbols.

[Jamaica]
Parliament discusses sexual offences bill
Excerpt: Another parliamentarian is urging her colleagues to block every loophole to prevent a man who undergoes a sex change from seeking coverage under the definition of sexual intercourse in the proposed law.
Government Senator Hyacinth Bennett cautioned that care should be taken to state that the sexual organs of the vagina and the penis be stated as the natural sex organs as defined at birth.

[USA]
Gay legal group backs new employment discrimination law
A legal organisation that fights for the civil rights of lesbians and gay men has urged the United States Congress to act swifly to introduce new legislation protecting LGBT people in the workplace.
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act was introduced in the US Congress yesterday.
[Blog/Commentary] Political Calculations of ENDA
Legislative Progress on Protecting Transgender People
[News/Commentary] Colorado beats feds on employment non-discrimination

[USA]
Federal Gov’t Poised to Add New Protections for Trans Workers
In keeping with his promise to work for full equality for GLBT Americans, President Obama’s administration is set to put protections for transgendered federal workers into place.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
'What a trans woman is, is somebody who is a woman but whose biology has betrayed them in someway'
"One of the things I realized in approaching this role was that I actually figured out early on that I was going to learn a lot about being a woman — period. Because, really, what a trans woman is, is somebody who is a woman but whose biology has betrayed them in someway. For me, I take for granted my identity as a woman. (...)"

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Honoring Stonewall: Transgender Day of Action
The Stonewall Riotsoccurred 40 years ago this Sunday in Greenwich Village, New York. They were sparked by one of many late-night police raids and erupted into a powerful and spontaneous resistance against years of abuse of LBGT folk by police officers. Although this fact is often forgotten, the Stonewall resistance was lead by Trans and gender non-conforming people and homeless youth.
Trans Day of Action: “The Rebellion Is Not Over”

[GA, USA]
Judge Won't Toss Transgender Woman's Claim
A federal judge has cleared the way for a discrimination lawsuit by a filed by a former state employee who claimed she was fired because she was undergoing a sex-change procedure.

[USA] [Books/History]
A Truly Queer History
Myth has it that the 1969 riots at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village were the first open queer rebellion against discrimination. Not so. In 1965, the first queer sit-ins on record took place at a late-night Philadelphia coffee shop and lunch counter called Dewey’s, which was a popular hangout for young gays and lesbians, and particularly drag queens and others with gender-variant attire. The establishment had begun refusing service to this LGBT clientele.

[USA] [Commentary]
Déjà vu all over again
The “hairpin drop heard round the world” — that is how New York’s Mattachine Society, and others, 40 years ago described the June 28, 1969, events at Stonewall, a gay and queen bar in the heart of Greenwich Village.
The name “Stonewall” has come to symbolize the beginning of gay activism and, in fact, spawned the Gay Liberation Front (GLF). In actuality, however, Stonewall was not the first encounter between persons we now describe as gender diverse and the authorities/status quo. Dewey’s Lunch Counter in Philadelphia and Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco both saw incidents wherein drag queens — or transvestites, as they were often termed in the vernacular of the ’60s — were at odds with management and the local police.

[Portugal]
A Veneza de Jan no tempo em que ainda era James

Jan Morris é uma das grandes referências na literatura de viagens. Viveu metade da sua vida como homem, a outra metade como mulher. Foi como James que escreveu "Veneza", obra agora editada em Portugal.

[Brasil]
Sugestão de mudar Parada de São Paulo para estádio do Morumbi irrita ativistas LGBT

A promotoria de São Paulo quer impedir que as próximas Paradas do Orgulho de SP seja realizadas na Av. Paulista. Isso porque um casos graves de violência foram registrados, como a morte por espancamento do chefe de cozinha Marcelo Campos Barros.

[Sweden]
Swedish parents keep 2-year-old's gender secret
A couple of Swedish parents have stirred up debate in the country by refusing to reveal whether their two-and-a-half-year-old child is a boy or a girl.

[Turkey]
Turkey's sex workers seek to establish a union
Activists and sex workers in Turkey are working on a project to establish Turkey’s first sex workers union. They are hopeful about finding a solution to their problems and changing society’s approach toward sex workers. They will organize an awareness walk to bring attention to their issues

[Israel]
Jerusalén: Celebran el orgullo homosexual
Pese al temor de que fueran agredidas por grupos ultraortodoxos, cientos de personas LGBT se manifestaron este jueves en una marcha del Orgullo Gay. Los manifestantes recorrieron un kilómetro, protegidos por un contingente policial.

[México]
Discriminan a persona con VIH en hospital de Toluca

Sin ningún estudio clínico previo, personal del nosocomio determinó que el paciente moriría sin remedio. Sus familiares aseguran que el maltrato de médicos y enfermeras no sólo es a personas que viven con VIH, sino también a otros.

[USA]
Since Stonewall
Four decades after the riots, much has changed for LGBT Americans -- although much work remains

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
What Would Today Look Like if the Stonewall Riots Didn’t Happen?
I have this wonderful part of my being that I like to pull out and play with every so often. Okay. I suppose that sentence could have been written differently. I am referring to my “imagination.” My imagination has play tricks on me quite often, but then I get many chances to tame it with the wave of my typing fingers. This happens to be one of those times.

[GA, USA]
Atlanta celebrates Stonewall Week
Excerpt: The largest slate of new Stonewall Week events comes from Human Rights Atlanta, which offers several activities meant to honor the gender non-conforming people who fought back at Stonewall and build support for transgender rights today. Although she was born just one year before the Stonewall Riots broke out, transgender activist Tracee McDaniel said she is inspired to know transgender and other gender non-conforming people were at the forefront of the modern day LGBT civil rights movement.

[USA] [News/History]
‘The hairpin drop heard around the world’
Civil rights turning point began with routine raid on Mafia-run gay bar
[Blog/Commentary] Stonewall police officer speaks
Top Stonewall Cop: Raid Was "Right"

[DC, USA]
Senate holds hearing on Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes bill
New Employment Non-Discrimination Act including gender identity introduced in House

[DC, USA]
New employment bill includes sexual orientation and gender
Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) announced the introduction of a bill Wednesday that would make workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity illegal.
Frank introduces inclusive ENDA bill
Lewis, Johnson co-sponsor ENDA
[Blog/Commentary] Legalizing Deception: Why “Gender Identity” Should Not be Added to Anti-discrimination Legislation
[Blog/Commentary] Inclusive ENDA Introduced; "We Are Beyond" Removing Gender Identity Protections, Says Frank

[USA]
Obama administration set to extend protection to transgender federal employees
The New York Times reported yesterday that the Obama administration is drafting guidelines that would provide protection for transgender federal employees against discrimination.

[Natureza]

Pesca intensa põe tubarões em perigo sério de extinção
A 'lista vermelha' da União Internacional para a Conservação da Natureza analisou os estados de preservação de 64 tipos de tubarões e raias oceânicos e percebeu que 30% destes animais estão em risco de extinção, enquanto 24% caminham para essa situação. A caça de que são alvo, muitas vezes apenas para retirar as barbatanas, é o grande problema.

[Natureza]
Baleias: 40 voluntários arriscam vida para «afundar» frota

Quarenta voluntários de todo o mundo vão «arriscar a vida», entre Dezembro e Março, numa campanha da organização ecologista Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) para impedir a caça às baleias no Antártico, anunciou a instituição.

Portugal rejeita intenção de retomar caça de baleias
Baleias: Comissão adia decisão sobre proposta da Dinamarca
Trabalhos concluídos no Funchal - Comissão Baleeira Internacional termina reunião sem resolver crise
Governo rejeita retomar caça à baleia
Austrália dá 850 mil euros para as baleias

[Brasil]
Polícia de Maceió investiga morte de ex-presidiária travesti assassinada a tiros
Uma travesti identificada apenas como Luana foi assassinada a tiros na noite da última quarta-feira, 24, na Avenida Humberto Mendes, no Poço, em Maceió. Segundo a polícia, o local fica próximo de onde ela fazia programas. Ainda não se sabe a causa do crime nem quem pode ser o assassino, mas o envolvimento de Luana com o tráfico de drogas foi apontado como motivo principal.

[Brasil]
Travesti cubana que fez história na cena teatral de SP abre sua casa em projeto do Sesc
Para os habitues dos teatros da Praça Roosevelt, Phedra é uma figura carimbada, integrante do grupo teatral Os Satyros, e rendeu ao grupo histórias para montagens como "Transex" e "A Vida na Praça Roosevelt". Phedra é uma travesti cubana que vive há 54 anos no Brasil e uma década deste tempo destinada ao grupo curitibano que revitalizou a praça, que continha entre outras pessoas, vários travestis. (Foto)

[España]
La nueva ley española de asilo contempla a las personas LGTB
El Congreso ha aprobado este jueves una nueva ley reguladora del derecho de asilo y de la protección subsidiaria, que refuerza de modo especial la protección de mujeres, niños, discapacitados y personas perseguidas por razón de orientación sexual o identidad de género, que ven explícitamente reconocido su derecho a solicitar asilo. El PSOE ha pactado el texto de la nueva ley con PP y CiU. Otros grupos, como IU-ICV y ERC, aun reconociendo que la ley es una avance respecto a la situación actual, han criticado que deje fuera a los ciudadanos de la Unión Europea.

[Reyno Unido]
La mayor organización de personas transexuales de Londres retira su anunciado boicot a la marcha del Orgullo
TransLondon, la mayor asociación de personas transexuales y allegados de la capital británica, ha decidido retirar su boicot a la marcha del Orgullo de Londres que se celebrará el próximo 4 de julio, y del cual os informábamos hace unas semanas. El boicot no estaba motivado por razones de fondo, sino que fue promovido como respuesta a la política organizativa que los propios promotores del Pride London venían imponiendo a los participantes transexuales, como el uso de aseos diferenciados para mujeres a los que a algunas mujeres transexuales se les había negado el acceso o la imposición de un código de vestimenta concreto para su carroza.

[Saudi Arabia]
HRW denounces Saudi transvestite arrests
Saudi Arabian authorities should drop charges against 67 men arrested in Riyadh for wearing women's clothing, human rights advocates say.
Filipinos charged over cross-dressing

[El Salvador]
Marcharán gays salvadoreños contra homofobia
La comunidad gay del país saldrá a las calles este fin de semana en su Marcha del Orgullo Homosexual. Exigirá, como cada año, el respeto a sus derechos. En esta ocasión denunciarán el asesinato de homosexuales y personas trans.
Gays salvadoreños marcharán el sábado con luto por asesinato de miembros

[Paraguai]
Contrata gobierno paraguayo a personas LGBT
La Secretaría de Emergencia Nacional y la organización Somosgay, anunciaron la incorporación a la entidad pública de dos personas de la diversidad sexual. Se trata de un hombre gay y una mujer transexual.
El Gobierno paraguayo incorpora a un gay y a una transexual en el funcionariado

[Argentina]
Travestis renuevan reclamo ante las elecciones
Haciendose eco de la campaña iniciada la semana anterior por Ariana Cano, en la que llamaba a manifestarse pacíficamente en las escuelas para combatir la discriminación y la humillación que sienten las personas travestis cada vez que acuden a votar, desde ATTTA (Asociación Travestis Transexuales Transgéneros de la Argentina), respaldan la iniciativa porque quieren “porque es un derecho” y quieren hacerlo en mesas femeninas.

[USA]
Local activists among 40 ’transgender heroes’ honored at Stonewall bar
Historians have long credited poor and working class drag queens, bull dykes and other transgender and gender-non-conforming people as key participants in the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion, but within the wider LGBT community that defining moment is all-too-often remembered as a gay, rather than LGBT, milestone. The International Court System and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force hope to change that. On June 25, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the riots that marked the birth of the modern LGBT rights movement, the two organizations will hold a dedication ceremony at the fabled New York City bar to unveil a plaque featuring the names of 40 transgender heroes past and present.
(Photo: Stonewall’s legacy: (from left) Gunner Scott, Nancy Nangeroni and Grace Sterling Stowell will be immortalized as ’Transgender Heroes’ at the Stonewall Inn in New York City. (Source:Marilyn Humphries) )

[USA]
Trans Federal Workers Protected
President Obama's lawyers are drafting guidelines that would bar discrimination against federal employees based on gender identity, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The guidelines will protect federal transgender employees from discrimination, and are the first of their kind on a federal level.
[Blog/Commentary] New Protections for Transgender Federal Workers
[Blog/Commentary] N.Y. Times Reports On Transgender Rights: There Are No 'Liberals' On The Issue, Only 'Conservatives'

[TN, USA] [Commentary]
This victim lucky to be alive
We need stricter laws protecting us when one of us is a victim of hate crime.
Hate crimes are on the rise now, and those who commit them should be punished to the fullest extent that the law allows. When a hate crime is committed in our state, local law enforcement should be educated well enough to know how to serve and protect all of us!
[Commentary] Proposed Federal Law Would Be a Hate Crime Against America
[PR] Task Force Action Fund urges for passage of critical hate crimes legislation

[IL, USA]
Alexandra Billings reigns on her parade
She's a worldwide pioneer in the LGBT community, not just a local celebrity with roots in Chicago's northwest suburbs.
Alexandra Scott Billings, 47, is the first transgender woman to have played a transgender character on television. She appeared in the 2003 made-for-TV movie Romy and Michelle: A New Beginning on ABC-TV and in an episode of the ABC show Karen Sisco. She also played transsexual characters in episodes of ER and Grey's Anatomy. (Photo)
Pride Parade's grand premiere

[DC, USA]
Baldwin bill seeks to end LGBT health disparities
Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin introduced the Ending Health Disparities for LGBT Americans Act (ELHDA) on Tuesday, the first comprehensive approach to improving all areas of the health care system where lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans face inequality and discrimination.
“Our current health care system fails LGBT Americans on many levels,” said Baldwin in a statement.

[DC, USA]
Frank introduces inclusive ENDA
The LGBT community erupted in anger in the fall of 2007 when Representative Barney Frank introduced a version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that excluded protection for gender identity. Critics also charged that the 2007 ENDA was "riddled with loopholes" that rendered it significantly weakened even for lesbians and gay men in the workplace. At the time, Frank said a bill including protections for transgender people simply didn't have the votes.
Employment Non-Discrimination Act Introduced in U.S. House
Inclusive ENDA introduced

[Brasil]
Globo mostra drama de adolescente transexual

Em um episódio dedicado ao drama de crianças vítimas de vários tipos de abusos, o programa global "Profissão Repórter" desta terça, 23, mostrou a história de uma jovem que apanhava dos pais por gostar de usar roupas masculinas.

[Brasil]
SP: Seminário aborda tráfico de travestis e transexuais

Com o intuito de abordar um tema ainda pouco discutido, o tráfico de travestis e transexuais, será realizado em São Paulo o "Seminário Internacional - Tráfico de Pessoas/Mercosul", entre os dias 22 e 24.

[Brasil]

Rondônia: Professora transexual afirma que está sendo impedida de lecionar em escola pública
CARTA ABERTA DENUNCIANDO A SEDUC/RO. - EM RONDÔNIA POR CONVENIÊNCIA DE DIRETORES E ALUNOS PRECONCEITUOSOS DE UMA ESCOLA PÚBLICA PROFESSORA TRANSEXUAL É IMPEDIDA DE LECIONAR E APELA A SEDUC E AO GOVERNADOR DO ESTADO PARA GARANTIR SEUS DIREITOS DE MINISTRAR AULAS... . Professora Victória Bacon

[UK] [Blog/News]
Translondon to lift Pride Boycott

Two TransLondon organisers attended an open meeting hosted by Pride London’s representative for the trans community on Saturday 6th of June. At that meeting, it became clear that Pride London has been listening to the concerns expressed by members of TransLondon and other LGBT groups.

[Paraguai]
Governo paraguaio contrata transexual e gay para conter discriminação

O Governo do Paraguai incorporou hoje como funcionários da Secretaria de Emergência Nacional (SEN) um transexual e um homossexual, dentro de um processo que busca "pôr fim à discriminação e à exclusão".

[USA]
New Protections for Transgender Federal Workers

Lawyers for President Obama are quietly drafting first-of-their kind guidelines barring workplace discrimination against transgender federal employees, officials said Tuesday.

Obama To Protect Transgender Federal Workers
[Blog/Commentary] A bold move by Obama for LGBT rights imminent!!!

[USA] [History/Commentary]
69: Drags gone wild

Forty years ago, on 27 June 1969, friends were having a quiet drink at the Stonewall Inn in Christopher Street New York. The Inn, reportedly owned by the Mafia, was more of a dump than a trendy public house. It operated without a liquor licence, its bar having no running water, with glasses being washed in dirty water. The Inn attracted an assortment of patrons: blacks, street queens, hustlers, effeminate men, butch dykes, homeless kids, transvestites and “scary drag queens”. Many were in their late teens (some underage). Those who were in their early thirties were considered “old”! At the Inn, drugs were freely available and the Inn was a good place to buy acid.

[USA] [Blog/News]
Federal Commission Recognizes Victimization of LGBT Prisoners in Report

In 2003, Congress unanimously enacted the Prison Rape Elimination Act, showing a strong commitment to protecting incarcerated individuals from sexual abuse. The act established a National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, tasked with the duty of studying the causes and consequences of such abuse and providing solutions for prevention. Today, the Commission released its report, and it includes extensive discussion about the need to protect incarcerated members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.

[DC, USA]
Frank Introduces Federal Gay Protections Bill

Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank reintroduced a federal gay protections bill in Congress Wednesday.
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) would ban employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

[PR/News] Employment Non-Discrimination Act Introduced in the House
Text of H.R. 2981: To prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity
[PR/News] ENDA's Introduction

[Brasil]
Deputado Giannazi acredita que crimes pós-Parada foram premeditados por grupos de intolerância
O Deputado Carlos Giannazi, do PSOL, também veio a público falar sobre os atos violentos ocorridos após a 13ª Parada de Orgulho LGBT de São Paulo, realizada no dia 14 de junho.

[Russia]
Man kills girlfriend of 2 years after learning she used to be a man
A Russian man has killed the girlfriend that he lived with for two years after finding out that she once was a man.
(Photo: www.life.ru)

[México]
Se tiñe Tijuana de arco iris con el Orgullo Gay
Un gran contingente de personas LGBT se reunió este fin de semana en el centro de la ciudad para, además de presumir singulares y llamativos atuendos, exigir sus derechos como personas y próximamente, ante las elecciones, como ciudadanos.

[Argentina]
Transfobia en La Nacion
Yo si sé, por eso escribo en respuesta a una nota escrita por Rolando Hangling para La Nación.
Al leerla nota sentí una especie de compasión, de lastima o como quieran llamarlo. Gente que consideramos culta, con conocimientos, y hasta quizás consideremos que este por encima de nosotros escribiendo una nota sin siquiera interiorizarse por el tema. No quiero entrar en esa bolsa, por eso escribo de lo que se y lo ya demostrado.

[USA]
Gender dysphoria: from Christine Jorgensen to Chaz Bono
In 1995, Chastity Bono let the world know that she was a lesbian, a woman who is sexually attracted to other women. Recently, the news reported that the former Chastity Bono, who will now go by Chaz Bono in his new male persona, is taking steps toward physically transitioning from being female to becoming male. If done completely, female to male (FTM) transitioning consists of Sexual Reassignment Surgery (SRS), wherein surgical procedures divest one of all female physical components: a complete hysterectomy to remove the female reproductive system (ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, and vagina) and use of tissues to create the genitalia of a male, and a bilateral mastectomy to remove breast tissue and mammary glands. These procedures are usually accompanied by the taking of male hormones – testosterone – to induce masculine traits such as the growth of facial hair and heavier body hair, deepening the voice, and increasing muscle mass.

[HIV/SIDA]
IPJ vai fazer rastreio em escolas, discotecas e festivais
O Instituto Português da Juventude (IPJ) vai ter cinco unidades móveis a fazer o rastreio de VIH e a distribuir preservativos a estudantes dos 12 aos 25 anos, em escolas, discotecas e festivais de música.
Unidades móveis vão fazer testes de sida em escolas

[HIV/SIDA]
Investigação - VIH tratado com quimioterapia
Dois estudos abrem novas possibilidades de tratamento da infecção VIH/sida, através da combinação dos actuais tratamentos com terapêuticas focadas nas células infectadas com o vírus.

[Natureza]
Golfinhos portugueses em risco
Poluição e excesso de tráfego marítimo no Estuário do Sado podem fazer desaparecer mamíferos em 30 anos

[Natureza]
Comissão Baleeira Internacional - Portugal disposto a aceitar caça costeira à baleia
Portugal admite o regresso de alguma caça à baleia a nível internacional, em troca de mais medidas de conservação para os grandes cetáceos. Aproximar as posições pró e contra a caça à baleia é a postura que o país está a manter na reunião anual da Comissão Baleeira Internacional (CBI), que começou hoje no Funchal, Madeira.
Reunião internacional começa hoje na Madeira - Caçar ou não caçar baleias
Baleias: Nunes Correia apela à «flexibilidade» da CBI
Baleias: Jardim defende urgência de acordo tripartido
Baleias: Pró-conservação têm maioria confortável na CBI
Greenpeace defende fim de programas de caça à baleia
Baleias «discutidas» na Madeira
Conseguir um acordo que limite a caça às baleias

[Brasil]
"Homens casados saem com travestis quando querem ser crueis", afirma Keila Simpson
Keila Simpson comandou a Associação Nacional de Travestis e Transexuais (ANTRA) por quatro anos. Nesse período, deu passos largos na luta pelo direito à cidadania. Entre as conquistas, segundo a ativista "pequenas, mas fundamentais", estão as parcerias com o Ministério da Saúde e da Educação e a criação de portarias, como a da utilização do nome social dentro do SUS e a autorização das cirurgias de readequação sexual.

[UK]
I was outed on TV by Apprentice wannabes
TRANSSEXUAL Chloe Hennison has revealed her shock at being outed by the hit BBC1 show The Apprentice when it filmed at her favourite Margate bar.
Since the age of 14 the Sundowners pub regular, who used to be called Clive, has dressed up in women’s clothes and is now planning on taking the final steps to becoming a woman.

[Israel]
Rightists protest gay parade in Arab towns
Hundreds of right-wing activists to demonstrate against coming Gay Pride Parade in the capital by organizing march in Arab towns

[Saudi Arabia/Philippines]
Pinoys in Saudi face lash for 'imitating women'
Sixty-seven Filipino men working in Saudi Arabia face jail and lashes for "imitating women" after being arrested at a party in which a number were dressed in drag, a Philippines embassy official said Saturday.
Saudi Arabian religious police arrest 67 Filipino men at drag party

[Mexico]
Mexico City Gay Pride Parade Draws Thousands
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.
Festeja la Ciudad de México el Orgullo Gay
Se deslindan activistas de organizadores de Marcha Gay en DF
Celebran la marcha del orgullo gay en la Ciudad de México

[México]
Marchan gays por calles de Torreón
Con banderas multicolores, elegantes vestuarios, música electrónica, y con un espíritu de fiesta, fue como este fin de semana se llevó a cabo la segunda marcha por el Orgullo y la Dignidad Gay en la ciudad coahuilense.

[Canada]
High heels, red lipstick ... it's Pride
As any 42-year-old man in a size 16 red velvet dress with fluff top, short, blonde wig with red highlights and gold high heels will tell you, a little rain can ruin even the best makeup effort.

[USA] [Commentary]
Can I Find Love If I’m Transgendered?
If you’re a woman in your mid-thirties, the dating scene is challenging enough. You’re conscious of feeling older, wrinkles become a reality, and you feel like your stock value as a potential wife has started to head south faster than the housing market. So in the past year, I decided it was high time I met a fabulous man.

[CA, USA]
Asexual contingent to march in San Fransisco pride parade
Gay Pride parades are not the first place you'd expect to find asexuals marching. Some people who identify as ace fall under the GLBT umbrella while many others do not. Members of the queer movement have reached out to asexuals to include them in their community. The acronym for this has now become GLBTQA. (Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and asexual.)

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
And We Are Not Saved: The Opposition To ENDA From The Left Is Mistaken
The more I read the position of those who oppose ENDA on the grounds that it does not fully protect us, the more I am reminded that my field of professorship is Law AND Society. Too many people see law as a savior. It is not. Law will not save us from discrimination. We cannot legislate against prejudice. Rather, law is nothing more than a tool of education, with the power of the state occasionally behind it.

[Portugal]
Marcha de Orgulho LGBT
Vídeo TVI

[Brasil]
Centenas vão ao centro de São Paulo pelo fim da violência contra os LGBT
Foi realizado na noite do último sábado, dia 20 de junho, a manifestação contra os ataques homofóbicos que ocorreram no dia 14 de junho, durante e depois da 13ª Parada do Orgulho LGBT de São Paulo. Os casos de maior repercussão foram o da bomba caseira atirada na Rua Dr. Vieira de Carvalho, que resultou em 30 vítimas, e o espancamento que culminou na morte de Marcelo Campos Barros. (Foto: Mariane Zendron)

[CO,USA] [Commentary]
Senate should expand hate-crimes legislation
The Matthew Shepard Act would cover bias crimes targeting people because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

[Natureza]
Um anfíbio cada vez mais raro em Portugal
Ameaça. A drenagem de pântanos e pauis, para a agricultura, e a poluição de pequenas ribeiras e lagoas estão a fazer diminuir rapidamente o número de tritões-palmados, alerta o ecologista Vasco Cruz, que está a realizar um trabalho de conservação de anfíbios e répteis

[Portugal]
Marcha do Orgulho LGBT realiza-se este sábado
Lésbicas, gays, bissexuais e transgéneros (LGBT) desfilam esta tarde em Lisboa, do Príncipe Real aos Restauradores, contra a discriminação e em defesa de direitos iguais para todos.
Uma ‘luta’ colorida - Marcha de lésbicas, gays, bissexuais e transgéneros em Lisboa
Marcha do orgulho gay esta tarde em Lisboa
Várias centenas de participantes - “Foi a maior marcha do Orgulho LGBT"
Marcha de orgulho LGBT percorreu ruas de Lisboa
Marcha de orgulho LGBT percorreu ruas de Lisboa

[Brasil] [Blog do Cia]
Protesto contra violência na Parada reúne 300 pessoas no centro de SP
Aconteceu no começo da noite deste sábado, 20, um protesto organizado por diversas entidades militantes contra os atos homofóbicos e agressões observadas na Parada Gay de São Paulo, com saldo de um homemm morto em decorrência dos ataques. Uma bomba feriu mais de 20 pessoas no Arouche e uma pessoa atingida permanece internada na Santa Casa.

[Norway] [News/Health/Medicine]
Revision Suggestions for Gender Related Diagnoses in the DSM and ICD
Presentation to the 2009 WPATH Symposium, Oslo, Norway

[Hungary]
Federation of gay Hungarians seeks president's help against extremists
Hungary's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender federation has asked for talks with President Laszlo Solyom to support efforts seeking protection against threats by extremist groups, an executive of the federation told reporters on Thursday.

[India]
Indian city plans first gay parade
The city of Chennai, in Tamil Nadu, is due to hold its first Rainbow Parade on June 28th.
The event aims to raise awareness of the challenges facing the state's LGBT population.
Queer and happily so: Bangalore readies for special

[México]
Celebran la marcha del orgullo gay en la Ciudad de México
Mexico - (EFE)Miles de mexicanos marcharon este sábado por el centro de Ciudad de México en la XXXI edición de la Marcha del Orgullo Gay, en la que reivindicaron mejoras a sus derechos sin que hubiera incidentes que lamentar bajo vigilancia de unos 1.500 agentes.

[Perú]
El Orgullo de Lima se solidariza con los indígenas de la Amazonia
Lima – (Dos Manzanas)La 8ª marcha del Orgullo LGTB de Lima (Perú), que se celebrará el próximo 27 de junio, tendrá este año la particularidad que por primera vez su lema central se centrará no en un tema específicamente LGTB, sino que mostrará su solidaridad con otra minoría oprimida, la de los pueblos amazónicos. El lema será “En la Diversidad unidas y unidos: Lesbianas, Trans, Gays, Bisexuales por la Paz, la Vida y el Respecto a nuestros hermanos y hermanas de la Amazonía”.

[Argentina]
Travestis de la Cooperativa Nadia Echazú desfilaron con vestidos propios y de otras empresas.
Por Mauro Federico – (Critica)Más de doscientas personas concurrieron al primer desfile de modas realizado con indumentaria confeccionada por empresas textiles autogestionadas. Por las pasarelas, instaladas en el salón principal del hotel Bauen, desfilaron actores, actrices, modelos profesionales, travestis y transexuales vistiendo los diseños de una decena de marcas cuyas fábricas fueron recuperadas por sus trabajadores luego de la crisis de 2001.

[Canada]
Much work remains for LGBT rights
Pride Week marks remarkable progress: Same-sex benefits, same-sex marriage, and recent human rights decisions make Canada a global leader on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered (LGBT) rights.

[EUA/Argentina/Uruguai]
Mateando participó de la XVII Marcha del Orgullo LGTB de Queens
El pasado domingo 7 de junio tuvo lugar el 17mo Desfile y Festival Cultural LGBT de Queens. Bajo el lema “Tus Derechos, Nuestros Derechos, Derechos Humanos”, decenas de grupos y organizaciones de la diversidad sexual (muchos de ellos, latinos) marcharon por la 37 Avenida de Jackson Heights, regalando música, baile, trajes coloridos y mucha alegría a los espectadores.

[USA]
Cher: ’I Respect the Courage’ in Chaz Transitioning to Male
As previously reported at EDGE Chaz Bono, the child of Sonny Bono and Cher, has decided to move forward with a female-to-male transition.
As the June 11 article noted, Bono’s publicist stated that, "Chaz, after many years of consideration, has made the courageous decision to honor his true identity."

[Portugal]
Orgulho LGBT - Desfile sábado em Lisboa contra discriminação
A já tradicional Marcha do Orgulho LGBT (Lésbicas, Gays, Bissexuais e Transgéneros) vai animar sábado à tarde a cidade de Lisboa, em mais uma iniciativa contra a discriminação.

[Brasil]
Vereadora transexual quer representar Clodovil
A dançarina e travesti ‘Leo Kret do Brasil’ (PR), que foi uma das campeãs de votos para a Câmara de Vereadores de Salvador, declarou para amigos íntimos que será candidata a Deputada Federal para ocupar o lugar de Clodovil. (Foto)

[Brasil]
Carlos Tufvesson "culpa" políticos pelos ataques homofóbicos pós-Parada de São Paulo

O estilista-ativista carioca Carlos Tufvesson, que está em São Paulo para conferir os desfiles do São Paulo Fashion Week, acabou acompanhando de perto os notíciarios e comentários sobre os ataques homofóbicos que aconteceram após a Parada do Orgulho LGBT no domingo, dia 14 de junho.

SP: Secretário de Justiça promete segurança nos atos anti-homofobia
Família e amigos de vítima da homofobia na Parada farão protesto nesta sexta-feira na Vila Madalena
40 anos depois da batalha do bar Stonewall Inn, NYC, um homossexual é morto na Parada Gay paulistana
Serra abre seu Twitter. Segurança para evento contra homofobia é assunto de primeiros posts

[México]
Exigen gays poblanos castigo para asesino de travesti

Activistas por los derechos LGBT exigieron al gobierno local que no quede impune el asesinato de “Ana Fajardo”, travesti acuchillada el pasado martes. Pidieron a legisladores que saquen de la congeladora la Ley Contra la Discriminación.

[Lithuania]
Homophobic law passed in Lithuania
The Lithuanian parliament has passed a law that prohibits the discussion of homosexuality in schools and bans any reference to it in public information that can be viewed by children.

[China]
Chinese gays step quietly toward progress
The first time director and movie buff Cui Zi'en tried to hold a gay and lesbian film festival in 2001, it was shut down by police before it even opened. When he tried to organize a gay cultural festival in 2005, five dozen police officers swarmed the venue, closing it.

[Philippines] [Blog/Commentary]
Supporting Leona
Leona Lo, one of Singapore's high-profile out transwomen, is set to star in the stage adaptation of her autobiography From Leonard to Leona: A Singapore Transsexual's Journey to Womanhood. The play entitled Ah Kua (a pejorative Hookien term originally ascribed to cross dressers but now also increasingly being used to refer to transgender/transsexual women in Singapore), which runs from August 6, 7 and 8, 2009 at 8 pm at the Substation Theatre, has just encountered its first transphobic opposition from the National Library Board of Singapore no less.

[USA]
Alexis Arquette: A Proud Transgender Female's Advice to Chaz Bono
"I hope that Chaz can understand that he is not alone and he's never been alone and anyone like him will never be alone," Alexis Arquette offers words of support for Chaz Bono. "It's an important time in his life; a lot of people don't understand that it is very difficult to come out as transgender."

[USA] [News/History]
Trans-cending time
Tracing the modern transgender rights movement from its beginnings in the dress code reform of the 1800s up through Stonewall to today, when Texas A&M has honored trans advocate Phyllis Frye

[CA, USA]
Remember Ruby Molina
On September 21, 2008, a naked corpse was found floating facedown in the American River just southeast of the Highway 160 bridge. A purple bruise bloomed below the waterlogged corpse’s right eyelid; blood vessels in the eye were ruptured. The maroon nail polish on the victim’s toenails was chipped.

[OR, USA]
Born into the wrong body
Bill Strange, a Baptist minister, never felt comfortable in a man’s body. So he got out.

[ID,USA]
Trans woman runs for mayor in Idaho
Melissa Sue Robinson, a trans woman, is running in the mayoral election for Nampa, Idaho.

[Natureza]
Risco de Mudanças irreversíveis no clima da Terra
Um relatório publicado ontem por um grupo de 12 cientistas do IPCC alerta para risco de mudanças abruptas e irreversíveis no clima da Terra se não forem dados passos rápidos e eficazes para diminuir drasticamente as emissões de gases com efeito de estufa. A publicação do relatório surge a poucos meses de negociações decisivas em Copenhaga.

[Brasil]
Morre homossexual espancado após a Parada de São Paulo; Instituições fazem protesto neste sábado
A Associação da Parada do Orgulho LGBT de São Paulo e a Coordenadoria de Assuntos de Diversidade Sexual estão convocando a comunidade LGBT a participar nesse próximo sábado, dia 20 de junho, às 19h, na Rua Dr. Vieira de Carvalho, próximo ao Largo do Arouche, de um protesto contra os ataques homofóbicos que aconteceram no centro da capital na noite do último domingo, 14 de junho, após o término da 13ª Parada do Orgulho.
Novas informações podem esclarecer morte de Marcelo Barros, afirma delegado

[UK]

'I know who I want to be': Why I decided to undergo male-to-female gender reassignment
Rosalind Ryan talks to Vivienne Snowdon, who plans to have an operation to become a woman in October
(Photo: Snowdon says: 'To me, it felt like putting myself back in touch with a part of me that had been neglected')

[Lituania]

Lituania aprueba legislación que prohibe mostrar imágenes de gays y lesbianas para ‘proteger’ a los menores
Ningún medio podrá difundir una imagen positiva (’propaganda’, según se le llama oficialmente) de la homosexualidad, después de que 67 de los 74 parlamentarios lituanos votaran a favor de la ‘Ley para la protección de los menores contra el efecto perjudicial de la información pública’.

[India]
Karnataka Queer Habba

The Karnataka Queer Habba will be held in the city on 28th June 2009 with a lead up of a week long of events as an attempt to for the LGBT to voice their opinions and become publicly acceptable.

[China]
New rules on safety of sex-change operations

SHANGHAI hospitals that perform sex-change operations said yesterday they are happy with draft guidelines from the Ministry of Health that are designed to provide oversight of the procedures.

Step Forward For China's Trans Community

[Argentina]
Travestis manifestaron frente a la Municipalidad de La Matanza

Tres organizaciones de diversidad sexual reclamaron en la plaza de San Justo. Quieren un trato igualitario y la posibilidad de acceder al Plan Federal de Vivienda.
La convocatoria estuvo a cargo del ‘Movimiento antidiscriminatorio de liberación’, el ‘Movimiento de Integración sexual, étnica y religiosa’ y la agrupación ‘Jóvenes por la diversidad’.(Foto)

[Argentina]
Elecciones 2009: Travestis lanzan campaña contra la discriminación en los padrones

Cansadas de la humillación que padecen en cada votación, la comunidad trans lanzó una campaña contra la discriminación, pidiendo además la urgente aprobación de una Ley de Identidad de Genero y la unificación de padrones.

La idea surge de Ariana Cano, la primera locutora transexual del país, que llama a las personas travestis, transgeneros y a cualquiera que quiera sumarse a manifestarse en la puerta de los colegios pacíficamente pidiendo el fin de la discriminación. “Cada vez que debemos presentarnos a votar es la misma humillación y burlas de parte de los fiscales y de la gente que esta esperando para realizar su voto. Están viendo una persona travesti que no debería estar en esa mesa, simplemente porque el Estado no quiere reconocer nuestra identidad de genero”. (Foto)

[Canada/Uganda]
Ugandan activist punished for transgender identity

Grace and persistence under almost unendurable circumstances have earned Victor Juliet Mukasa a place at the head of this year's Pride parade.
Still, for someone who's been punished because of his gender identity, "a transperson," as the 33-year-old Ugandan calls himself, the prospect of serving as Pride Week's international grand marshal is scarey.

(Photo: COURTESY PRIDE TORONTO African activist Victor Juliet Mukasa is grand marshal of the 2009 Pride Parade.)

[Canada]
Trans march 'overdue'

When Karah Mathiason started planning Toronto's first-ever Trans Pride March, she thought it might attract 10 people. The next thing she knew, she had more than 300 RSVPs on the event's Facebook page.
"I was thinking of a quiet little march but it just grew," says the 35-year-old graphic designer, who is organizing the Friday night event with her wife Diane Grant, 52, who, like Mathiason, is a trans-lesbian (both were born male).

(Photo: SARAH DEA/TORONTO STAR Karah Mathiason, right, and her wife Diane Grant, organized Toronto's first-ever Trans Pride March, which will take place on Friday, June 26.)

[Canada]
Drama continues on the tranny stroll

When Pheobe sees girls screaming and fighting at 3am at the corner of Homewood and Maitland — Toronto’s infamous tranny hooker stroll — she bites her shiny lip-glossed lip.

She says it’s an ugly site when she sees two tranny hookers, like herself, rumble drunkenly in the street, ripping the glue out of each other’s weaves because one girl is “stealing the other girl’s john.”

(Photo: ON THE FRONTLINES. Trans sex worker Pheobe, who has worked the Homewood stroll for two years, says the workers are getting flack from the residents because of "a group of girls who make it bad for everyone." (Michael Pihach))

[USA] [Health/Medicine]
Estrogen may increase dementia risk

Research has shown that estrogen increases older women's risk of developing dementia and cognitive decline. How estrogen does that, though, has been a matter of debate. But a study published online in Neurology suggests that the hormone may do this by shrinking women's brains.

[Blog/Health/Medicine] Estrogen may cause dementia. Transsexuals suceptible?

[USA] [Blog/News/Commentary]
Indiana Equality opposes ENDA: Calls it "segregation"

In a stunning and controversial move, Indiana's statewide LGBT organization, Indiana Equality, has publicly called the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) "a new form of segregation," and will not support the proposed federal legislation. Instead, the group will only accept full inclusion in the federal civil rights code.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
The Trials and Travails of Transness: The Intersection Between Feminism and Transgender People

This series is meant to serve as both trans 101 for Shakers and to explore the relationship between trans women and feminism through Julia Serano's Whipping Girl. I proposed this post the Melissa in response to the "We Matter" thread, in which some commenters displayed an large ignorance of trans issues and used harmful tropes against trans people. While the commentors were not being malicious, many commenters suggested that they read Whipping Girl. This book deals with many of the harmful tropes that society uses to marginalize trans people, as well as the relationship between trans women and feminism. I wanted to offer my perspective on this book and offer some basic education on trans issues. My personal experience is as a trans woman and I cannot speak for the whole spectrum of trans people. This is also the focus of Julia Serano's book as she is a trans woman.

[USA]
Tri-Ess: The Society for the Second Self

Crossdressers are probably as misunderstood in our society as are transsexuals. But crossdressers are not transsexuals, nor are they drag queens. Instead, they are (usually) heterosexual men who dress in what society considers “female” clothing and take on a female appearance in order to express a feminine side of their personality.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Employment Non-Discrimination Act May Appear Next Week
According to the Washington Blade, U.S. Representative Barney Frank will announce plans for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) next week. It will include protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

[USA]
Cher on Chaz Bono Gender Reassignment: 'I will Strive to Be Understanding'

Cher is speaking out for the first time since news broke that her adult child Chaz Bono was in a transition from female to male.

[USA] [Humor]
Confused Bono Facing Barrage of Questions About His Sex Change

U2's lead singer spent the better part of the past week denying claims that he's now a woman after a series of newspapers ran headlines such as "Bono Has Sex Change." The news was in reference to Chastity Bono, manly daughter of Cher, not the frontman for the legendary rock outfit.

[Portugal]
A transexual que queria dançar
Bruno Horta conversou com uma actriz transexual belga em vésperas da sua passagem por Lisboa.

[Brasil]
Morre homem espancado durante a Parada Gay de São Paulo
Morreu na noite desta quarta-feira Marcelo Campos Barros, 35, que sofreu traumatismo craniano ao ser espancado em uma briga durante a Parada Gay de São Paulo, no último domingo (14).
Morre rapaz agredido no centro de SP logo após Parada Gay
São Paulo: Associação da Parada e Cads organizam manifestação contra ataques homofóbicos neste sábado
APOGBLT divulga número de participantes na Parada Gay de SP e comenta casos de violência homofóbica
Entidades militantes farão protesto contra violência homofóbica na Parada de SP

[Brasil]
Diretor e elenco de "Questão de Gênero" realizam debate sobre transexualidade
Com o público ainda digerindo o documentário "Questão de Gênero", o diretor Rodrigo Najar iniciou o debate após sessão da pré-estreia realizada nesta terça-feira (16/06), no HSBC Belas Artes, dizendo que escolheu fazer um filme sobre transexuais, pois tinha o desejo de pesquisar algo que fosse diferente de si.

[Lituânia]
Lituânia aprova lei que proíbe menção sobre homossexualidade nos meios de comunicação
O Parlamento da Lituânia aprovou uma lei que censura referências à homossexualidade nos meios de comunicação. A intenção, segundo a justificativa da lei, é proteger menores de idade de "influências homossexuais". E o texto base foi aprovado com larga folga: 77 votos a favor, três contra e quatro abstenções.

[Nepal]
Born to be different
Kailash Shrestha would cry for hours in childhood, but not for sweetmeats or clothes. It was for something that he could not change — his gender. He was fond of women's apparels and female garments and dolls were his favourite items.

[China]
Tediosos, los requisitos para cambiar de sexo
La nueva regulación del Ministerio de Salud en el país asiático exige requerimientos poco comunes para todas aquellas personas que quieran someterse a una reasignación sexual, entre ellos ser soltero y no tener antecedentes penales.
Operaciones de reasignación sexual con condiciones en China
China to ban criminals and those in relationships from having sex change operations
China debates sex change rules

[EUA]
Cher comenta mudança de sexo de sua filha
A cantora Cher falou pela primeira vez sobre o tratamento de redesignação sexual a que sua filha, Chastity Bono, vai se submeter. Em entrevista à revista "People", Cher disse respeitar a decisão da filha. "Chaz está começando uma jornada que será muito difícil, mas é uma jornada que eu apoio. Eu respeito a coragem dela de passar por este processo diante do público", disse a cantora.

[Biography]
Sylvia Rae Rivera (1951-2002) activist.
Rey Rivera Mendoza, an orphaned New Yorker of Puerto Rican and Venezuelan descent, lived on and off the streets from age 11. She became Sylvia and was mentored in her early days by Marsha P. Johnson.
Both were prominent participants in the Stonewall Riots, 1969, the iconic origin of Gay Lib. Sylvia was only 17 at that time. She was a founding member of both the New York Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance, and helped found STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) with Marsha for homeless street queens.

[Internacional]
Según Human Rights Watch, el progreso y la visibilidad del movimiento por los derechos LGBT generan reacciones violentas.
Activistas que trabajan por los derechos de lesbianas, gays, personas bisexuales y transgénero (LGBT) en muchos países todavía carecen de suficientes recursos, viven un aislamiento innecesario y son vulnerables a reacciones violentas aun después de cuatro décadas de lucha, aseveró Human Rights Watch en un informe publicado este día.

[Brasil]
Violência homofóbica observada após Parada Gay de domingo faz Kassab pensar em tirá-la da Paulista
Era de se esperar uma reação da Prefeitura em relação à Parada Gay 2009. "A Paulista cada vez mais se mostra inadequada para os eventos. O que ontem (domingo) pode ter atrapalhado foi a obra do metrô, que bloqueou o fim da avenida e com isso o que era para ser um evento em contínuo andamento das pessoas acabou tendo prejuízo", disse o prefeito ao jornal O Estado. "Vamos aguardar com muita seriedade para definir o encaminhamento. Até o momento não foi (estudada a troca de local), mas nada indica que não possa ser analisada", completou o Prefeito.
Entidades militantes farão protesto contra violência homofóbica na Parada de SP

[Brasil]
Parada de Cuiabá muda data para atrair participantes
A organização da Parada Gay de Cuiabá decidiu mudar o dia de realização do evento. Depois de sete anos sendo promovida às sextas-feiras, a Parada foi transferida para o sábado. Em 2009, o evento será realizado em 25 de julho. Segundo Menotti Griggi, membro da comissão organizadora, a decisão pela mudança foi tomada para que mais pessoas participem do desfile.

[UK]
'Trans - People' Push for More 'Equality Act' Protections
In testimony to the Parliamentary committee studying the upcoming Equality Act, a “transgendered” rights advocate said that wherever a person may be on the “gender reassignment spectrum,” they should be protected from “discrimination.”

[Itália]
Parada do Orgulho de Roma critica Berlusconi e papa Bento 16
No último sábado, 13 de junho, a Parada do Orgulho Gay de Roma reuniu cerca de 200 mil pessoas e serviu para que a comunidade LGBT italiana expusesse seus desafetos com o papa Bento 16, cuja imagem foi colocada no lugar da cabeça de um dinossauro.

[Lituânia]
Associações de gays e lésbicas vão pedir ao presidente que não a promulgue - Lituânia aprovou lei que proíbe divulgação da homossexualidade
O Parlamento lituano aprovou ontem uma lei para a “protecção de menores” que proíbe toda a “publicidade” de relações homossexuais, bissexuais e poligâmicas. Associações preparam-se para pedir ao Presidente que não a promulgue.

[China]
Primeira Parada Gay de Xangai reúne duas mil pessoas
O último sábado, 13 de junho, tornou-se histórico para a comunidade LGBT de Xangai. Cerca de duas mil pessoas saíram às ruas para realizar a primeira Parada do Orgulho Gay da cidade chinesa. Evento que representou um “primeiro passo em direção a algo maior" e a vontade de "fazer as coisas melhores no ano que vem", como afirmaram os organizadores à agência Efe.

[China]
Sex change surgery guidelines drafted
China is set to issue its first clinical guideline on sex-change surgery, according to a notice put on the website of the Ministry of Health Tuesday.
The ministry is now soliciting public and professional opinions on the draft guideline. The coming guideline aims to regulate and standardize sex reassignment surgery, part of a treatment for gender identity disorder in transsexuals.

[Argentina]
Aulas trans en el Conurbano
Testimonios de la primera camada de travestis y transexuales del conurbano que retomaron en la adultez la escolaridad perdida cuando eran chicos. Sus dificultades y sueños. Cómo funciona el programa estatal de reinserción educativa.

[EUA]
Casan por error pareja homosexual de NY y después cancelan acta de matrimonio
Hakim Jason y Nelson Stenson, dos personas homosexuales que se presentaron “como el que no quiere la cosa” ante la oficina municipal de casamientos a pesar de que esa unión no está legalizada en el estado de Nueva York. De todos modos el secretario municipal les concedió la licencia y días más tarde fueron casados en una ceremonia. Pero tras la celebración y poco antes de irse de “luna de miel” recibieron una comunicación en la que se les avisaba sobre la cancelación del acta matrimonial. “Fuimos engañados por el municipio porque nos casaron a sabiendas de que somos gay”, dijo Nelson. Al parecer, las autoridades municipales cometieron un “error” debido a que Nelson acudió a ambas citas vestido de mujer, pero la “pareja” insiste en que fueron estafados en su buena fe.

[USA] [Commentary]
Transgender people are everywhere
It was only a matter of time. The real-life drama of being transsexual has come to Hollywood. Chastity Bono, the impossibly cute little blond girl who, for many of my generation, remains frozen in time as the sweet, chubby-faced cherub closing many a Sonny and Cher show in the arms of her doting parents, recently announced that he is transsexual and will be transitioning from female to male. He will go by the name of Chaz.
As shocking as this news may be to some, it is yet another reminder that all is not necessarily as it appears and that each of us is more complicated than simply the skin and bones of our bodies. Rather, it is our heart and spirit that defines us.

(Photo: Donna Rose says transgender people don't fit the stereotypes society often tries to impose.)

[WI, USA]
Transgender bias alleged in Outagamie Co. suit
A judge has scheduled a November jury trial in a civil lawsuit filed by a biracial, transgender person against an Appleton nightclub.
Twenty-eight-year-old Sierra Broussard alleges the Park Central nightclub denied entrance based on race and Broussard's transgender status.

[TN, USA]
Suspected Shooter of Transgendered Memphian Appears in Court Today
Memphis has a startlingly poor track record when it comes to hate crimes against transgendered women.Kelvin Denton was shot twice on May 27 -- once in the nose and once in the neck -- after police say Terron Taylor, 18, learned Denton was not a biological woman.

[USA] [Film]
'Two Spirits' screens this summer
In June 2001, a 16-year-old Navajo youth, Fred C. Martinez Jr., was brutally murdered in Cortez, Colorado. A young man named Shaun Murphy was later convicted of second-degree murder in the slaying.
There is every indication that Martinez was killed because he was Two Spirit, a term that the Two Spirit Society of Denver says refers to “another gender role believed to be common among most, if not all, first peoples of Turtle Island (North America), one that had a proper and accepted place within indigenous societies.”
(Photo: Fred C. Martinez Jr., subject of the film Two Spirits)

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[Brasil]
Bomba caseira explode e fere 21 após a Parada Gay em São Paulo
A festa contra a homofobia em São Paulo foi pacífica e reuniu cerca de 3 milhões , mas grupos de intolerância agiram após a Parada do Orgulho Gay sem que a polícia conseguisse evitar. Na Rua Vieira de Carvalho, tradicional reduto de bares gays na cidade, uma bomba caseira explodiu por volta de 21h e deixou 21 feridos pelos estilhaços.

Durante a Parada Gay - São Paulo: Explosão de bomba causa feridos
Cantora transexual faz versão do Hino Nacional na Parada Gay
San Pablo convocó 3 millones de personas en el desfile del Orgullo Gay
Apesar da expectativa, Parada Gay de SP passa por avenidas em tempo menor
Parada deste ano foi mais tranquila que a do ano passado, afirma Coronel da PM
Parada Gay chega à praça Roosevelt; número de brigas aumenta em evento
"A sociedade ficou mais conservadora", afirma Marta Suplicy
Parada rola em tempo recorde e sem os clubes. O que você achou?
Comentários, minuto-a-minuto, fotos... Saiba o que rolou de fato na Parada Gay 2009
Ataque a bomba no Arouche fere 20 no final da Parada
Três pessoas seguem internadas após Parada. Vítima de agressão sofreu traumatismo craniano
Parada de SP dura pouco mais de cinco horas. Trios correm deixando multidão pelo caminho
Parada chega ao seu auge em plena tarde de domingo
Montadas são sempre atração à parte na Parada. A gente flagrou algumas delas

[Brasil]
Curitiba registra quinta execução de travesti em menos de dois meses
Mais um travesti foi executado em Curitiba. É quinta morte em menos de dois meses. Desta vez, o crime ocorreu em uma pensão, na Rua Iapó, no bairro Rebouças. As travestis Rafaele e Soraia e o companheiro de Rafaele, André, foram pegos de surpresa por três homens armados. Rafaele foi morta no local, Soraia foi baleada no rosto e André levou três tiros na barriga. Os feridos foram atendidos em hospitais de Curitiba e não correm risco de morrer.

Travesti morre baleada em Curitiba e polícia suspeita de dívida com tráfico

[Brasil]
Contribuinte financia silicone para travestis

José Serra, candidato à Presidência da República, parece ter descoberto o potencial eleitoral do movimento gay. Semana passada, o próprio governador inaugurou a primeira clínica pública para atendimento exclusivo de homossexuais, travestis e transexuais.

Segundo os jornais, o centro de atendimento terá profissionais nas áreas de medicina, enfermaria, psicologia, nutrição e dietética e fisioterapia especializados no atendimento a gays.

Se você quiser ter tratamento médico privilegiado, melhor desistir dessa mania obsoleta de gostar do sexo oposto. Heterossexual não tem atendimento diferenciado.

[UK]
Andrew sparks national debate
A transgender cab driver who says she was sacked for her appearance has sparked a massive debate across Leyland.

[Itália]
Parada de Roma reúne 200 mil pessoas

Segundo os organizadores, cerca de 200 mil pessoas compareceram à Parada Gay de Roma, na Itália, no último domingo, 13. A caminhada contou com 20 carros de som e com a presença da primeira travesti eleita deputada de Roma, Luxúria.

[Polónia]
Varsóvia realiza Parada Gay e atrai 1.500 pessoas

A capital da Polônia, Varsóvia, recebeu no último sábado, 13, cerca de 1.500 manifestantes que saíram às ruas da cidade para pedir mais atenção aos direitos e à cidadania da comunidade LGBT. A principal reivindicação era pela legalidade das uniões entre pessoas do mesmo sexo.

[Turkey]
Women and Transgender Individuals Pleased at Cerrah's Departure
As Chief of Police Celalettin Cerrah has been transferred to Osmaniye province in southern Turkey as governor, Istanbul is waiting to hear who will be his successor.
According to women's and gay and transgender rights activists, Cerrah's departure is being welcomed.

[Croácia]

Croácia reúne 500 pessoas em sua Parada Gay
A Croácia realizou no último sábado, 13, na capital Zagreb, sua Zagreb Pride 2009, que atraiu cerca de 500 pessoas às ruas da cidade pedindo pela promoção da cidadania dos LGBT croatas.

[Nigeria]
Another hermaphrodite in Falconets
Some years ago, Nigerians were surprised to hear that one of their female players was neither a man nor a woman after playing for the Falcons in several international matches.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
The Difference Between Trans And Gay
Excerpt: Contrasting that with the documentary done 20 years ago, Remembering Stonewall, it was interesting to note that while there were a number of trans and drag folks interviewed who were primary players, there were also a few more gay and lesbian interviewees. A couple of the gay and lesbian folks were actual participants, but most were just people, gay and lesbian community leaders perhaps, who were just living in other places, or who were elsewhere that night or even avoiding that bar area altogether. They were there to discuss what beneficial impact the riot had on their lives as gay or lesbian Americans – more for flavor or color than anything else.
The percentage was approximately 50-50, with perhaps a slight edge to gay and lesbian interviewees as opposed to the "drag queens" or "transvestites" as they called them then.
Even today, in gay and lesbian subject programs if there are any gender variant images, as a rule drag queens are the only ones shown. However, unless the subject is specifically about female impersonation, the drag characters are used as wallpaper adorning the background or inconsequential scenes, or a rare sentence or two as a comic relief.

[NY, USA]
Wedding Crashers
Excerpt: Nelson -- who goes by the name "Kimah" and hopes to one day have surgery to become a "full female" -- wore an orange dress and white leggings, his straight, brown hair falling to his shoulders.
(Photo: MALE-ORDER BRIDE: Hakim "Kimah" Nelson (right), here with his "hubby," Jason Stenson, presented a Benefit Card, which identifies him as a female, to a city clerk to get their marriage license.)
Men Fool NY Into Performing Gay Wedding

Nova York, onde casamento gay não é legalizado, casa dois rapazes por engano

[WI, USA]
Trial set in transgender civil case that alleges discrimination
Sierra D. Broussard, 28, of Appleton, filed a civil suit against Park Central, a downtown Appleton nightclub, claiming she was denied admission June 21 because she is black and a transsexual.

[USA] [Commentary]
Why two bigots ate their words
Sherry Wolf describes the wave of protest against two Sacramento disc jockeys who spewed hate about transgender youth.

[NY, USA] [History]
40 Years After Stonewall: New York's Role in the Movement
The Stonewall Rebellion, when lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people fought back against police repression at a Greenwich Village bar with a six-day riot in June 1969 is considered the birth of the modern "gay rights" movement. President Barack Obama just declared June LGBT Pride Month in the United States, following an example set by President Bill Clinton during his second term. (This year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued her own proclamation at the State Department.)

[Portugal]

(UMA HISTÓRIA TRANSEXUAL) VANESSA VAN DURME - REGARDE MAMAN, JE DANSE
Regarde Maman Je Danse é a história de coragem de Vanessa Van Durme. Um espectáculo divertido e tocante sobre a importância de aceitar o outro.
19 e 20 Jun 2009 - 21:00
M/12 ANOS
PEQUENO AUDITÓRIO – SALA EDUARDO PRADO COELHO
PREÇOS
Plateia 15€
Laterais 12,5€
DESCONTOS HABITUAIS (Para bilhetes adquiridos no CCB)

[Brasil]
13ª edição da Parada Gay de São Paulo
Galeria com 9 fotos
(Foto: Agência Estado - Uma multidão durante a 13º edição da Parada Gay de São Paulo, na Avenida Paulista, neste domingo.)

Parada Gay 2009

Parada gay é marcada por brigas e furtos em SP

[Turkey]
Transsexual Celebrity Acquitted Of “Alienating People From Military Service
Famous transsexual singer Bülent Ersoy is acquitted of the accusation of “alienating people from military service”, which she faced for her words during a TV show that if she had a son she would not send him to the war with the PKK in the east.

[Argentina]
La crueldad de la televisión, o la historia mediática de Zulma Lobato.
Veintitrés minutos y quince segundos es el tiempo que dedicó Crónica TV a burlarse de Zulma Lobato la primera vez que la llevaron al piso. Otros dos minutos y cuarenta y ocho segundos de aire sirvieron para mostrarla cantando a capella “Resistiré”. Ella parecía no darse cuenta de que la estaban ridiculizando, pese a los esfuerzos de la conductora para que el público lo notara. La travesti, de 51 años, que llegó a la televisión luego de una vida llena de obstáculos, estaba emocionada por la “oportunidad” de cantar en la pantalla chica y agradeció sinceramente a Héctor Ricardo García, dueño del canal y marido de Anabella Ascar, la conductora del programa. Zulma agradecía y Anabella se moría de risa. (Foto)

[Argentina]

Paula Viturro, jurista: "La discriminación hacia travestis es mayor que hacia gays de clase media"

Una sociedad se revela democrática no sólo por su sistema de gobierno, sino también por su capacidad de aceptar o no las identidades de género de los demás y los modos de ejercer públicamente las sexualidades.

De las identidades de género y los modos de ejercicio de la sexualidad surgen tensiones en el espacio público que ponen de manifiesto actitudes humillantes e ideologías sexistas. En el trato que reciben las personas, en el cuidado de su diversidad, está en juego el respeto -o no- de su autonomía. Además, ¿acaso una sociedad democrática e igualitaria podría legítimamente humillar a gays o travestis? Paula Viturro es una exploradora de estas problemáticas, las cuales muestran prejuicios y prácticas discriminatorias extendidas, naturalizadas y, de tan arraigadas, invisibles, no percibidas como tales en la sociedad.

[Thailand]
Nip to Thailand for a quick tuck
Thailand's cosmetic and gender reassignment surgery industry is bucking the global economic downturn, with glamorous international ladyboy shows a walking advertisement for the skills of local surgeons.

[Philippines] [Blog/Commentary]
XXboys
One of the biggest misconceptions about the word transgender is that it only refers to girls or women who were assigned male at birth. Because trans women somehow end up inadvertently becoming more visible than their male counterparts, they are more often than not perceived as the only ones who make up the T part of the LGBT community. Many forget that being transgender is experienced and expressed in so many ways by a wide range of people and that in fact, the "transgender experience" is lived through as well by those who were assigned female at birth and now have a male gender identity and masculine gender expression or those who we call transboys/transmen/transmales.

[Canada]
Edmonton Pride Parade draws huge crowd
Edmonton Pride Parade revellers waved rainbow flags Saturday afternoon as they booed and yelled "shame" at Edmonton-Glenora MLA Heather Klimchuk, the first government minister to participate in the annual celebration.(Photo: Paraders thrill onlookers as they pass by. Photograph by: Chris Schwarz, Edmonton Journal)

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Group of Teenagers Attacks Trans Woman in Seattle
One week ago, a trans woman was attacked on the street by a group of teenagers in Seattle.
Of course there’s no evidence whatsoever that the victim is a sex worker. Apparently even a 13-year-old knows both the stereotype that all trans women are sex workers, and the idea that if someone is a sex worker, it’s okay to beat and threaten to kill her.

[MI, USA]
Kalamazoo Pride Festival promotes visibility, rights for gays
One of the booths at the Kalamazoo Pride 2009 festival on Saturday at Arcadia Creek Festival Place offered T-shirts that read, "Sex is not the enemy."
(Photo: Jennifer Harnish Special to the Kalamazoo Gazette - Danielle Dunlap, 19, blows bubbles while watching an act at the Kalamazoo Pride Fest at Arcadia Creek Festival Site Saturday. "It's been unbelievable," she said of the festival.)

[NV, USA] [Film/Events]
Beautiful Darling
The latest offering in the Andy Warhol-related documentary realm—a glimpse into the short life and fragile mind of the transsexual actress Candy Darling—remains a work in progress. Unfortunately time code, music and voice-over work won’t much improve an ultimately vague glimpse, despite the original films, photos, press clippings, letters and journal entries impressively assembled. (Photo)

[USA]
Chaz Bono's Only Regret
We know a lot more about Chaz Bono's decision to become a man, and there's one thing he wishes he did differently -- that he had done it sooner.
[Commentary] How do you create a Lesbian?

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Teish Trial Updates, Notes And Thoughts
Looks like there's been some positive developments in the wake of my post on the lack of coverage of the DeLee trial vis-a-vis the Zapata one.

[Internacional]
Homossexuais «invadem» a Europa
Paradas anuais em Roma, Varsóvia e Atenas

(Foto Parada de Atenas. EPA/MARIA MAROGIANNI)

[USA] [News/Health/Medicine]
Estrogens Do Not Protect Against Cardiovascular Death For Transsexuals

Long-term estrogen use does not protect male-to-female transsexuals from death due to cardiovascular disease but does not appear to raise their overall death rate, a new study found. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

[Itália]
Unas 200.000 personas desfilaron por Roma en la Gay Parade
Más de 20 carros circularon por la ciudad reivindicando los derechos homosexuales. Mucha música y atuendos para todos los gustos. Se destacó el primer travesti elegido diputado italiano.

(Foto participante da Parada de Roma.EPA/ARMANDO BABANI)

[USA] [Commentary]
What It's Like To Be Transgendered

In her own words, a transgender teen talks candidly about acceptance and tolerance.
Yesterday, Chaz Bono announced his plans to have a sex change. Rika, a 17-year-old boy who came out as a girl during her freshman year, sheds a little light on what it means to be transgendered.

[Polonia/Croacia]
Polonia y Croacia realizaron sus respectivos Desfiles del Orgullo
Centenares de activistas gays y lesbianas desfilaron el sábado por las calles de la capital polaca para pedir la legalidad de las uniones entre parejas del mismo sexo.

(Foto de participante Polaca. EPA/Radek Pietruszka)

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
The Avalanche of Hate Crimes

I get some of the news stories I post here from an e-mail list. Others I glean from Page One Q, 365 Gay, The Advocate and a bunch of blogs plus people send me items.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Chaz Bono and covering gender transitions

The news this week that Chastity Bono is transitioning to be Chaz Bono offers the world another chance to hear about a topic that many still know little about.

Candis Cayne to Cher: "Show Love And Support"

[CA, USA]
UPDATE: National Media Coverage of KRXQ Hosts’ Apologies

Two weeks after mobilizing GLAAD supporters, Sacramento radio hosts Rob Williams and Arnie States apologized yesterday for their disparaging, anti-transgender remarks that promoted the abuse of transgender children.

KRXQ Boycott: UC Davis Health System Severs Ties With KRXQ

Foi há 25 anos que partiu. No vídeo de cima explanou de maneira exemplar um sentimento que compartilhei vezes sem conta com ele. No vídeo de baixo explanou também de maneira exemplar uma maneira de pensar muito comum em Portugal.

Saudade. Saudade de quem tão bem soube interpretar a alma humana e a alma portuguesa. Que mais pode ser dito? Ou valerá a pena dizer mais?...

Uma nota de protesto por não se encontrar um vídeo original dele. Esta questão dos direitos de autor está a ir longe demais.

[International]
Trans Rights Go Global
May was an historic month for the transgendered around the world.
The issue of transphobia was inscribed on the global LGBT agenda thanks to new initiatives from the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO). The effort includes a global petition campaign in favor of rights for the transgendered aimed at the United Nations, the World Health Organization (WHO), and governments around the world, which has already resulted in major changes in the status of the gender-variant citizens of several countries.

[Ireland] [News/Film]
Film on Irish Transgender Person Wins Rights Award
A FILM telling the true story of an Irish transgender person was presented with a human rights film award in Dublin last night.

[Israel]
Celebraron masiva marcha gay en Tel Aviv
Una multitud participó hoy en la Gay Pride anual de Tel Aviv, organizada desde 1988 y auspiciada por la alcaldía de la capital isarelí. La Policía mantuvo alejado a un grupo extremista que portada banderas con la siguiente leyenda: "Dios odia la perversión".
20 mil pessoas desfilam na Parada Gay de Tel Aviv
Gays invadem ruas de Telavive

[Canada] [Commentary]
T is for Trans
One of the things I’ve found hardest to resolve during my transition from male to female is that I don’t fit the mould of a typical transsexual. I’ve always liked playing sports, chasing girls and other stereotypically masculine activities. I’ve seen Transamerica and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert but didn’t identify with the transsexual protagonist in either story. The whole “woman trapped in a man’s body” thing never fully explained the feelings within me.
(Photo: Nikki Stratigacos (BA 2009))

[USA]
Chastity Bono Transitioning From Female To Male
Chastity Bono, gay-rights activist and child of performer Cher and the late entertainer and politician Sonny Bono, is in the early stages of transitioning from a female to a male and will be known as Chaz, his spokesman said Thursday.
Chastity Bono comes out as trans
Sonny and Cher's child transitioning from female to male
Bono's child undergoing sex change
HRC and GLAAD Statements Regarding Chaz Bono's Announcement of Transitioning Genders
The former Chastity Bono’s public transition sure to raise awareness,transgender activists say
Becoming a Man -- The Process
Inside Chastity Bono’s Lifetime Struggle
[Blog/Commentary] Chastity Bono Transitions, The Media Circus Follows Right Behind
[Commentary] Chastity (Chaz) Bono, Transsexuality and the Church
[Commentary] Chastity, 'Good luck, brother
Filha de Cher faz tratamento para mudança de sexo

[USA]
Born in male body, Jenny knew early that she was a girl
Henry Joseph Madden was a good student and track team member in high school, but he had a secret: He sometimes wore his mother's pantyhose and underwear under his clothes.
"I really wanted to be a girl so bad, and that was one way for me to satisfy those feelings," Madden said. "I always felt like someone was looking over my shoulder."
(Photo: Dr. Jennifer Madden, a family physician, began her transition to being female at age 48.)

[CA, USA]
KRXQ Hosts Apologize
Hosts Rob Williams and Arnie States of the Rob, Arnie, & Dawn in the Morning show on KRXQ radio in Sacramento issued an apology on their Thursday show, after using language that promoted violence against transgender children.
Broadcasters apologize on air for transgender remarks

[NY, USA] [Blog/Film]
Gender Fabulous
Some of my best friends were transsexuals.
Actually, only one. Back in the seventies, Liz Eden, whose life was redacted in Dog Day Afternoon, befriended me.

[Brasil]
Transexual adota nome de homem sem fazer cirurgia
Um transexual de 29 anos, que mora em Bauru, conquistou na Justiça o direito de mudar seu nome e o sexo em todos seus documentos pessoais sem que tenha se submetido à cirurgia de redesignação sexual. Pela sentença, o transexual, que nasceu com sistema reprodutivo feminino, passará a ser oficialmente chamado pelo nome masculino, o qual é conhecido desde a adolescência. A decisão, considerada inovadora, foi divulgada ontem pela Defensoria Pública do Estado de São Paulo, que impetrou a ação de retificação de registro civil.

[Espanha]
Transexual grávido de gémeos sofre aborto
O primeiro transexual do mundo a engravidar de gémeos, Ruben Noé Coronado, sofreu um aborto natural na terça-feira, apesar de se encontrar com apenas 17 semanas, segundo o El País.
Transexual grávido de gémeos abortou
Pregnant Spanish 'man' suffers miscarriage

[UK/Poland]
British ambassador to Poland under fire for promoting gay rights
The British ambassador to Poland has sparked a diplomatic incident after promoting a controversial gay pride march due to take place in Warsaw on Saturday.

[USA/Canada] [Blog/News]
Lynn Conway files a formal complaint against Ken Zucker
Professor Lynn Conway has made a formal complaint against Ken Zucker at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Zucker has a habit of making legal threats against trangender people who criticize him.

[USA]
Cher’s daughter undergoing sex reassignment
Chastity Bono, the child of Cher and Sonny Bono, has started the process of becoming a transgender individual.
A rep for the gay rights advocate and writer confirmed Bono is undergoing the process to go from female to male.
“Chaz, after many years of consideration, has made the courageous decision to honor his true identity,” rep Howard Bragman said in a statement.

(Photo: A rep said Chastity Bono, who came out at 18 as a lesbian, and now goes by Chaz, hopes to stay out of the media’s glare during the transitioning process.)

Cher's daughter Chastity Bono is changing gender from female to male

[CA, USA]
Few leads for 'suspicious' transgender death in Sacramento
In the eight months since fishermen found the body of a young transgender woman along the banks of Sacramento's American River, police have remained unable to determine whether the death was a homicide.(Photo: The body of transgender woman Ruby Molina was found in Sacramento last September.)

[CA, USA]
KRXQ loses another advertiser over transgender remarks
The fallout continues over a morning radio show team's comments about transgender youth.
Radio show back today – with transgender advocates
Fallout continues from transphobic radio show
Marcos Breton Takes on Rob, Arnie & Dawn

Calif radio hosts sorry about transgender comments
Shock Jocks to Apologize for Trashing Transgender Kids

'Rob, Arnie & Dawn' hosts apologize for transgender comments

[WA, USA]
Police say hate motivated attack on transgender person near Franklin High
The brutal attack of a transgender woman by a group of youths at a bus stop near Franklin High School on Saturday was clearly motivated by hate, Seattle police say.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
ENDA And Hate Crimes Go To The Back Of The Bus
Last Thursday Jason Bellini of the Daily Beast reported that the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) had made a deal with the Obama Administration to delay repealing the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy in an effort to focus on the federal hate crimes bill and Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).
I thought it sounded too good to be true. For a minute I was almost proud of them for doing the right thing!

[Nuclear]
Chernobil «está cheia de buracos»
Greenpeace afirma que a protecção do local «já não cumpre as suas funções»

[Nuclear]
Zapatero reafirma compromisso de substituir nuclear
O primeiro-ministro espanhol, José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero, garantiu hoje que cumprirá o seu "compromisso eleitoral" de substituir de forma "gradual, ordenada e razoável" as centrais nucleares espanholas "por energias renováveis".

[Brasil]
Defensores públicos admitem falta de conhecimento sobre travestis e transexuais
"Travestis são pessoas que se sentem bem com seu corpo e mente. Já transexuais, não aceitam a forma como são constituídos biologicamente", explicou a presidente da Associação de Travestis e Transexuais (ATRAS), Keila Simpson, durante oficina realizada na tarde da última terça-feira (09/06), no Auditório da Procuradoria Regional da República da 3ª região (PRR-3), em São Paulo. O encontro fazia parte do 7° Ciclo de Palestras do 13º Mês do Orgulho LGBT e evidenciou as dificuldades enfrentadas tanto pelas transexuais quanto pelas travestis quando o assunto é o acesso à Justiça.

[Espanha]
Aborta o primeiro transexual que engravidou na Espanha
Um transexual espanhol que engravidou de gêmeos sofreu um aborto natural, informou nesta quarta-feira o jornal El Mundo em sua edição online.
Era el primero del mundo en esperar gemelos - Aborta el primer transexual embarazado de España

[Spain]
Transsexual transferred to womens unit in prison
The woman concerned is serving a sentence for rape and still has male genitalia
A transsexual, condemned for raping a woman, joins jail with women

[UK]
Trans woman 'portrayed as a drag queen' by magazine
A trans woman who was featured in a women's magazine has said she has been "destroyed" after it published "lies" about her.
Chrisie Edkins told PinkNews.co.uk she expected the feature, in weekly magazine Closer, would be a "heart-warming" story about her struggle for acceptance as a trans woman.
Instead, she claims that the magazine fabricated quotes from her and dressed her up to look like a transvestite.

[Nepal]
LGBTs want inclusion in new curriculum - Sexual minorities call for rights
They did no wrong. Instead, nature made them different. But society discriminates them for a different sexual orientation. Sexual minorities — lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender (LGBT) — face indiscriminate persecution everywhere, including schools, homes and public places. "I was expelled from school and home and forced to conceal my true feelings from others," says a lesbian, who did not want to be named.

[El Salvador]
Denuncian gays salvadoreños crímenes de odio
Activistas por los derechos homosexuales en el país denunciaron, ante autoridades competentes, el asesinato de ocho miembros de la comunidad gay, todos ocurridos durante las últimas dos semanas. Exigieron seguridad y no discriminación.

[Perú]
Abren instructiva contra culpables de agredir brutalmente a travesti en Tarapoto
Susel Paredes, quien esta asesorando legalmente a Techi, la travesti brutamente agredida por una Ronda Vecinal en Tarapoto el pasado mes de enero, informó que el Segundo Juzgado Penal de Tarapoto había resuelto abrir instrucción en contra de Carlos Ríos Arce, Francisco Huxton Alvarado Barrera y Edinson Dávila Vásquez, como presuntos autores del delito contra la Libertad , Violación de la Libertad personal, en sus figuras de Coacción y Secuestro y por el delito contra la Humanidad , en su figura de discriminación, en agravio de “Techi”.

[Australia]
First transsexual footballer?
The Victorian Country Football League (VCFL) may be the first football organisation in Australia to allow a transsexual man to play football.
A Trans-Man for All Seasons

[EUA]
Transexual masculino já tinha sido pai há um ano - Homem dá à luz o segundo filho nos Estados Unidos
O transexual masculino norte-americano que espantou o Mundo ao anunciar que engravidou, Thomas Beatie, foi pai pela segunda vez. Beatie, de 35 anos, deu à luz um menino, um ano após ter sido pai pela primeira vez.
"It's a Boy" for Thomas Beatie
Exclusive: 'Pregnant Man' Gives Birth to Second Child
'Pregnant man' Thomas Beatie gives birth for second time

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Remembering Stonewall, Forty Years Hence

This is rearranged transcript from "Remembering Stonewall" which premiered July 1, 1989. The show itself interviewed both people at the scene of Stonewall as well as others who related how they felt hearing about Stonewall and what it meant to their lives. Rather than simply reposting, I took the liberty of culling the portions of it that had specific relevance to what happened in the early morning hours of Saturday, June 28, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn. Those relevant to the riot were left in and organized a bit better, rather than the cut and paste snippets of the original in order to give more of a feel for the sentiment of the night, especially from Dep. Inspector Seymour Pine and Sylvia Rivera – the nights two main players in this documentary.

[WA, USA] [Blog/News]
Transgender person assaulted, teen investigated for hate crime
A group of teens beat a transgender person and threatened to kill her Saturday on Rainier Avenue, according to Seattle police.
The person, who told police she is in the process of changing her name and appearance to a woman, reported she was attacked by a group of teens at the bus stop at Rainier and South Mount Baker Boulevard.

[NY,USA] [Blog/Events]
National Transgender Day of Action

On June 26, 2009, Trans and Gender Non Conforming People of Color and allies will take to the streets of NYC once again and demand justice to let the world know, that on the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, the rebellion is not over and we will continue fighting for justice, raising our voices until we are heard. We call on all activist and organizers for justice, both local and organizations around the country and world to endorse this call to action and to build contingents to march in solidarity together. Below and attached are the points of unity which hold together the purpose of this march.

[CA, USA]
Transgender advocates will be part of radio apology
Two transgender advocates will be part of an on-air apology Thursday by a Sacramento radio team that has upset lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocates.
[Commentary] Marcos Breton: Is radio apology about regret, or ratings?

[NY, USA] [Film/Events]
'Against A Trans Narrative' sparks dialogue at the New Fest
The 2009 New Fest – the New York LGBT Film Festival – kicked off June 4 with a roster of amazing new talent and filmmakers that will certainly make their mark within the LGBT community and filmgoers alike. One of them is documentary filmmaker Jules Rosskam with his film ‘Against A Trans Narrative’ that explores the ideas of transgender individuals.

[Brasil]
Em SP, ambulatório terá cirurgia de mama para travesti
O governo do Estado de São Paulo inaugura hoje na capital um ambulatório especial para o atendimento geral de saúde de travestis e transexuais. O local deverá ainda, mediante protocolos que serão definidos, oferecer cirurgia de colocação de próteses de mama e terapias hormonais para garantir uma identidade feminina ao corpo, como a eliminação de pelos do rosto, por exemplo.
SP cria posto de saúde exclusivo para travestis e transexuais
Serra inaugura em São Paulo clínica dirigida a homossexuais
Inaugura Brasil primera clínica para atención de homosexuales

[Rússia]

Grupos homosexuales aprovecharán primera visita de Obama a Moscú para manifestarse

Los homosexuales rusos aprovecharán la primera visita al país del presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, del 6 al 8 de julio, para manifestarse en defensa de sus derechos, pese a la prohibición de las autoridades moscovitas.

[Iraque]
Un grupo LGTB iraquí denuncia que la policía está detrás de la violencia anti-gay

Una organización LGTB habría establecido contactos con un miembro del Servicio de Inteligencia del Ministerio de Interior iraquí, a quien tuvieron que pagar 5.000 dólares para liberar a un miembro de la organización que había sido detenido. Según ha declarado Ali Hili, perteneciente a Iraqui LGBT, ese personaje les habría revelado que hay una campaña dentro del propio gobierno iraquí para perseguir a los homosexuales.

[India]
Sirsa singing sensation wants to be a boy
In what has come as a startling decision by one so young, Diksha Sharma, at 14, and a singing sensation says she wants to change her sex and become a boy at 18.

[Australia] [Commentary]
Australian Sports Commission gets red-carded on equality
AUSTRALIAN rules supporters at every level have some extra spring in their step lately, and it's not surprising. When the football code you support is walking the talk about being accessible to everybody, and doing it in a way that is positive and constructive, you can't help but, well, want to support it.

[EUA]
Primeiro "homem grávido" do mundo tem outro filho
O transexual Thomas Beatie, que ficou famoso por ser o primeiro "homem grávido" do mundo, deu à luz hoje menina, quase um ano após se tornar pai pela primeira vez, informou hoje a rede de televisão "ABC".
Transexual embarazado dio a su segundo hijo

[USA] [Commentary]
Trans people are the real deal
"Hello. I'm Matt Kailey, and I'm a transsexual."
No, that’s not how I introduce myself.
And the fact that I don’t doesn’t make me any more of a fake or a fraud than the woman who doesn’t say, “Hi. I’m Sue Smith, and I’ve had a nose job,” or the guy who doesn’t say, “Hi. I’m John Jones, and I have a colostomy bag.” (These are fictitious people, and I’m obviously not very creative with names.)

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Kelly's Story: A Transgender Christian
As a Christian, it deeply saddens my heart to see the harm this is causing those who need Jesus the most. Contrary to popular opinion, transgender individuals do not just wake up one day and decide to wear a dress or cut one's hair and put on pants. In these individuals, the sex differentiation of certain hypothalamic networks is altered by cerebral programming in utero. How this occurs is still up for debate. (Photo)

[CA,USA]
Radio Show Temporarily Off Air For Remarks
KRXQ posted a letter to its fans on its website in regards to recent comments made on the Rob, Arnie & Dawn Show. In it, D.J. Rob Williams publicly admitted that he he failed listeners when, last week, the three made offensive comments about transgendered people then defended those comments when criticized by viewers.
[Blog/Commentary] Transgender Man's Response to Rob, Arnie & Dawn
Radio hosts say they'll discuss 'hateful' transgender
[Commentary] DJs threaten children; corporations do the right thing
Radio Hosts to to Apologize for 'Hateful' Transgender Comments
Rob, Arnie & Dawn in the Morning Plan Special Broadcast on Transgender Issues

[NM, USA]
Man pleads guilty in 2008 murder
An Albuquerque man will serve 12 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to murder, admitting to shooting another man during a January 2008 argument.(...)
(...)Murphy was a popular drag queen who had won several awards for his performances as Patricia, a name by which many of his friends knew him.

[Brasil]
Ambulatório especial vai atender a transexuais

O governo do Estado de São Paulo inaugura terça-feira (9) na capital um ambulatório especial para o atendimento geral de saúde de travestis e transexuais. O local deverá ainda, mediante protocolos que serão definidos, oferecer cirurgia de colocação de próteses de mama e terapias hormonais para garantir uma identidade feminina ao corpo, como a eliminação de pelos do rosto, por exemplo.

[Brasil]
Assassino de travesti é condenado em Fortaleza

O gerente comercial Tiago da Silva Ricarte, 21, foi condenado na madrugada da última quinta-feira, 4, pelo assassinato da travesti Sthefanny Pazzini, em agosto de 2007, em Fortaleza. No julgamento que durou oito horas, o 2º Tribunal do Júri do Fórum Clóvis Beviláqua o condenou a seis anos de prisão em regime semiaberto.

[Brasil]
Polícia troca tiros com bandido e desvenda assassinatos de travestis em Curitiba

Acusado de ter matado quatro travestis em Curitiba, Hirossche de Assis Eda, 34 (foto), morreu na noite da última quinta-feira, 4, após uma troca de tiros com a Polícia Civil. Ele estava sendo acusado de matar as travestis, além de uma garota de programa, como forma de cobrar dívidas não pagas de drogas. Além dele, um policial e uma mulher identificada até agora como Elen, e que era sua comparsa, também morreram.

[Brasil]

Polícia paulista descarta hipótese de assassinatos homofóbicos em série no Parque Paturis

Excerto: Um ponto muito importante foi descobrir que Ivanildo não havia sido assassinado pelo ex-sargento Jairo Francisco Franco, mas sim por um ex-presidiário que era namorado dele na época. A polícia descobriu que poucas horas antes de o corpo dele ser encontrado, o suspeito e a vítima foram vistos entrando no matagal do parque. Além disso, duas testemunhas que eram amigas de Ivanildo reconheceram a foto e a tatuagem do suspeito como sendo namorado de Ivanildo. Sob Jairo ainda pesam as acusações sobre a morte da vítima não-identificada e da travesti Pamela Peixoto. Ele responde em liberdade porque o pedido de sua prisão preventiva foi negado pelo Judiciário.

[India]
'I want to be a boy'

14-year-old reality show participant believes sex change will help her be a star singer; feels like a boy in a girl's body

[Latin America]
OAS approves second resolution on “Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity”

At its 39th General Assembly convened in San Pedro Sula , Honduras , from June 1 – 3, 2009 , the Organisation of American States (OAS) approved its second resolution on “Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity”.

[USA/France] [Blog/Film]
US DVD release of French Film ‘Another Woman’

I thought to write to you on inclusion of the French, made for TV movie Another Woman (Une Autre Femme) on the media directory page. This film is artistically produced with award winning qualities that surpass most of what has been made regarding Transsexual themes, and is cast with highly honored French actors.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
The Play: "I Survived Stonewall" ... an Interview with a Stonewall Veteran, Big Roy McCarthy

He wasn't one of the "Stonewall Girls", the instigators of the riot. However he had a shadier side to his personal life then as a young gay hustler, and could very much relate to the environ at that time and an eyewitness account that few others could report.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Entercom Communications Corporation: When Big Business Demonizes Innocent Children

The community response to Sacramento radio station KRXQ FM, following hateful and threatening remarks toward gender variant children on May 28th, has been overwhelming and gratifying. A GLAAD Call to Action and a remarkable report by Michael Rowe of the Huffington Post on May 2 sparked a groundswell of outrage and protest from the transcommunity and our advocates.

98Rock's Rob Williams To Fans: "We Have Failed You"
[Blog/News] KRXQ Sacramento Radio Hosts Have History of Obscenity Involving Children: FCC Report
Radio Advertisers Run After Transgender Slur

[Suiza]
Realizaron multitudinaria Marcha del Europride 2009 en Zúrich
Alrededor de 50.000 personas participaron ayer sábado en el acto central del Europride, que este año 2009 ha tenido lugar en Zúrich, la más populosa de las ciudades de Suiza, tras recalar los últimos tres años en Londres (2006), Madrid (2007) y Estocolmo (2008). Una animada marcha, a la vez festiva y reivindicativa, recorrió las calles centrales de la ciudad suiza, que por cierto eligió hace poco más de un mes a la primera alcaldesa abiertamente lesbiana de su historia, la socialista Corine Mauch. (Foto)

[India]
Bizarre sex change case reflects trauma of gays
The dramatic case of a woman undergoing a sex-change operation to disguise her lesbian relationship presents an extreme case of a reaction of a same-sex couple to the social resistance to such relationships in India.

[China]
Shangai celebra su primera semana del Orgullo
Por primera vez en su historia, China abre sus puertas a una Semana del Orgullo Gay. Pero sin desfile para evitar problemas con las autoridades.
Como casi todas las grandes ciudades del mundo, Shanghái tendrá su festival gay.
Desde este domingo -y hasta el 14 de junio- dará inicio una semana dedicada al orgullo gay con manifestaciones que incluyen proyecciones de cine, conferencias, muestras de arte y largos días de fiesta.

Sin embargo, los organizadores evitaron el desfile que acompaña comúnmente a este tipo de manifestaciones. La idea, aseguraron, es prevenir algún enfrentamiento con las autoridades.

[Australia]
Transsexual eyes Aussie Rules
An Aussie Rules fan is about to become the Australia's first transsexual to play competitive football.
Will, 25, was born a woman and had a sex change two years ago. Since then the Collingwood supporter has been desperate to play football.
(Photo: WILL POWER: Will, who had a sex change operation two years ago, hopes to play Aussie Rules football next year.)
Transsexual takes to the footy field

[MA, USA] [Blog/News]
Boston Pride Celebrates the "T" in LGBT
In this exclusive audio interview Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson chats with Keri Aulita, Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Boston Pride Committee, about this year’s Boston Pride events. Boston’s Pride celebration began June 5th & runs through Sunday June 14th with festivities happening all week long. Interestingly, this week the White House released a National Proclamation honoring the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion & officially recognized June as LGBT Pride Month.

[TN, USA]
Former fighter pilot listens to feminine voice he'd tried to ignore
Excerpt: Two years ago, David, a retired Air National Guard Lieutenant Colonel who served as a navigator and fighter pilot, told his wife, Mary, something he'd kept inside all his life. He was a woman in a man's body.

[VIH/Sida]
Novos epicentros da doença pode vir a ser problema, alerta Henrique Barros - Sida: mortalidade em Portugal diminuiu para cerca de metade entre 2000 e 2006

A mortalidade associada à infecção por VIH/sida diminuiu em Portugal cerca de 50 por cento entre 2000 e 2006, adiantou hoje o Coordenador Nacional para a Infecção do vírus da sida. Henrique Barros mostrou-se preocupado com a possibilidade de o epicentro da epidemia deslocar-se para países como a Ucrânia e a Rússia. SIDA: Mortalidade diminuiu para metade em seis anos

Sida: mortalidade em Portugal diminuiu 50%
Saúde: Relatório de 2008 do Instituto Ricardo Jorge - 400 morreram com VIH/sida

[Natureza]
Espécie Criticamente em Perigo - Investigadores espanhóis anunciam regresso da águia-pesqueira à Península Ibérica

Há anos que a águia-pesqueira (Pandion haliaetus), espécie Criticamente em Perigo, deixou de nidificar na Península Ibérica. Hoje, investigadores espanhóis do CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) anunciaram o nascimento de cinco crias em dois ninhos nas províncias de Cádiz e Huelva.

[Natureza]
Andorinha-do-mar-anã e borrelho-de-coleira-interrompida - Almargem denuncia colónia de aves em perigo na Ria Formosa

A associação Almargem denunciou hoje que uma colónia com cerca de 60 ninhos de andorinha-do-mar-anã (Sterna albifrons) e de borrelho-de-coleira-interrompida (Charadrius alexandrinus) corre "um sério perigo de ser destruída na zona da Barrinha" (Praia de Faro), na Ria Formosa.

[Internacional]

OEA aprueba resolución histórica sobre orientación sexual e identidad de género
Por la trascendencia de la Resolución de la OEA relativa a Orientación Sexual e Identidad de Género, incluimos a continuación el informativo diseminado por Marcelo Ferreyra, de la IGLHRC, Argentina:

En el marco de la celebración de los 60 años de la Carta de la Organización de los Estados Americanos, la 38ª Asamblea General de la OEA, aprobó por consenso la resolución AG/RES-2435(XXXVIII-O/08) Derechos Humanos, Orientación Sexual e Identidad de Género, presentada por la delegación de Brasil.

[India]
'I changed sex for her, but she dumped me'

A 34-year-old woman, who underwent a sex change operation to disguise her lesbian relationship, is now struggling to find her lost identity after being deserted by her 39-year-old lover.

[USA]
Danica Patrick Ad Ruffles Some Transgender Feathers

A new television ad for telecommunications company Boost Mobile featuring spokeswoman Danica Patrick has ruffled a few feathers in the transgender blogosphere over its use of cross-dressing actors.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Right-wing shock jocks: Now attacking children

This is reprehensible (trigger warning). I’m not going to quote from the piece because it’s really sickening, but the gist is this: Right-wing radio jocks in Sacramento attacked transgender kids, calling them horrible names and basically encouraging listeners to beat their children if their children expressed any sort of gender-nonconforming behavior — including things as simple (and common) as a little boy wanting to wear high heels or a dress.

[CA, USA]
Tough times prompt transgender job fair in L.A.

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 with documents identifying her as male, both typical reasons why the transgendered struggle to find and keep jobs, especially during a recession.

6 de Junho de 1944 - Invasão da Normandia pelas forças aliadas - O início do fim do reinado de terror Nazi na Europa - O dia mais longo

[Brasil]
Antropólogo sueco mergulha no universo trans baiano e produz livro delicioso de ser lido
Há umas duas semanas, zapeando sem compromisso, achei uma pérola rara para observação sócio-antropológica: numa emissão Fiocruz pela RBN estavam sendo entrevistados o sociólogo sueco Don Kulick e a antropóloga Miriam Goldenberg (autora,entre outras obras, de "A Outra: um Estudo Antropológico sobre a Identidade da Amante do Homem Casado", 1990, Editora Revan).

[Lituania]
Lituania presenta una ley que viola derechos humanos y agrava la homofobia

Amnistía Internacional ha condenado la decisión del Parlamento lituano, Seimas, de seguir adelante con un proyecto de ley que institucionaliza la homofobia y viola el derecho a la libertad de expresión y a no sufrir discriminación.

[Cuba] [News/Commentary]
Campaign against Homophobia
Excerpt: But I also have a social life, and it happened that this past May 16, the “International Day against Homophobia” was celebrated in Havana for the third time and for the second time publicly.
The event is sponsored by CENESEX (the National Center for Sexual Education), directed by Mariela Castro Espin - the daughter of two noted Cuban politicians, as her last names denote - but who has a strong conviction and intention to achieve respect for homosexuality in Cuba.

[India]
Transgenders find place in college admission forms
When Shakthi Sundar was filling up the application form for a course in Madras Christian College, she noticed that the application form had a third option in gender - transgender.

[EUA/Argentina]
Mujer Trans Latina triunfa en la TV norteamericana
Fabiola Golden es La Mucama de Las Comadres con Gloria B, el único programa matutino local de la televisión en español en Nueva York. Su formato dinámico, entretenido y versátil esta especialmente diseñado para el mercado del área tri-estatal. (Foto)

[CA, USA] [Blog/News]
Radio advertisers pull spots over Rob, Arnie & Dawn comments
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation announced that three corporate sponsors - Sonic, Snapple and Chipotle - had pulled advertising from KRXQ as a result of "Rob, Arnie & Dawn" segment last week, in which hosts Rob Williams and Arnie States denigrated transgender people and joked about hitting kids for transgender behaviors.
Advertisers Pull Support From Local Radio Program
[Blog/News] Snapple, Sonic & Chipotle Pull Advertising From KRXQ

[TX, USA]
New survey shows possible crisis among area LGBT youth
First-of-its-kind survey in North Texas indicates family rejection, religious issues lead to higher rate of depression, thoughts of suicide.

[VIH/Sida]
Lares não aceitam idosos infectados com o vírus da Sida
Há dezenas de doentes com mais de 50 anos. Muitos começam a precisar de um lar. Uma associação contactou 15 residências e apenas uma aceitou integrar um seropositivo.

[Cinema]
Jogo erótico terá vitimado actor de 72 anos - Actor de ‘Kung Fu’ asfixiado
O actor norte-americano David Carradine, que interpretou a personagem Bill nos filmes de Quentin Tarantino, ‘Kill Bill’, foi ontem encontrado morto num hotel de Banguecoque, na Tailândia.
Morreu o actor David Carradine

[Portugal]

[Brasil]
Batemos um papinho com Garota X, a Mulher Banana do funk
Em abril deste ano os leitores do Mix puderam conferir à perfomance babado da funkeira carioca conhecida no Rio de Janeiro como Garota X. Integrante do time da Furacão 2000, a fofa moradora de Nova Iguaçu aparece em um dos DVDs da companhia soltando a voz no Funk da Mulher Banana, uma alfinetada na onda de mulheres-fruta que toma conta do País.(Foto)

[UK]

Yorkshire and Humber SHA accused of grilling gender
Gender equality campaigners have accused Yorkshire and the Humber commissioners of breaching the Human Rights Act in its treatment of patients with gender dysphoria.

[UK]
Driver ‘fired for her sex change talk’

A transsexual cab driver has claimed her employers gave her the boot simply because she wore nail polish and a skirt.

Fare lady cabbie 'fired for sex swap'

[UK]
Scottish Parliament passes anti-gay hate laws

The Scottish Parliament yesterday passed legislation that seeks to ban hate crime against lesbian, gay bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) people.

[UK/USA] [Blog/News/Health]
Is Health Care Failing Transgender Patients?
Eek, these are some scary statistics if accurate. The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association released a study, based on the survey responses of more than 90 hospitals and 70 health clinics in the United States, on the care provided to LGBT patients, and the findings show an epidemic of insufficient care for transgender patients.

[UK/Philippines] [News/People/Film]
Caring transsexual in new documentary
BY day she cares for sick babies at the Royal Free Hospital - but by night she dons her make-up and dances the night away to the sound of rapturous applause.
Nurse Chiqui Diokno, 43, is the front woman of Paper Dolls, an extrovert group of Filipino transsexuals who are the subject of a film that premieres at the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn on Monday.

[China]

Man wants to turn 'girlfriend' into real girl

A young migrant worker was shocked but remained open minded to the fact that his girlfriend of four years is actually a man.

[Cuba]
Contentos trans cubanos con cirugías de cambio de sexo
Hace un año el Ministerio de Salud en la isla aprobó un plan de atención a personas transgénero que desean una reasignación sexual. De 100 casos bajo análisis, 19 están listos para la cirugía y se muestran felices por la nueva etapa que les tocará vivir.

[Venezuela]
Transgender Murders Continue in Venezuela
Since January, twenty murders of transsexuals have occurred in Venezuela. However, the real numbers are difficult to track because of the lack of police effort in the investigations of transsexual violence. Estrella Cerezo, a founding member of the Venezuelan transgender rights group Transvenus, has tried to keep track of the transsexual murders.

[Canada]
NDP MP Bill Siksay calls for coverage of sex reassignment surgery

NDP MP Bill Siksay tabled today (June 3) a motion in the House of Commons which calls on the federal government to take action to ensure that sex reassignment surgery is covered by Canada’s health system.

[NY, USA]
Judge allows DeLee murder case to go forward
County Judge William Walsh today upheld the constitutionality of the state's hate crime law in the murder prosecution of Dwight DeLee.
DeLee is charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime in the Nov. 14 shooting death of Moses Cannon. Cannon was described by his family as a transsexual who went by the name Latiesha "Teish" Green. The prosecution contends the victim was targeted because of sexual orientation.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
That which does not kill us
Editors' Note: Guest blogger Elsbeth Goff is presently unemployed and learning of the trials and tribulations of an out transwoman trying to find a job. A recent stroke has further complicated her life, but then without it, things would be just too easy now wouldn't it?

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
No Match, No Job, No Surgery
Maybe it was my naiveté, but I always thought when I got my documentation changed, I transitioned, and was passable, that I'd be able to live the nice normal life I did before transition. It hasn't quite worked out that way. Recently I was interviewed a few times and offered a job... and then I got that dreaded call.

[CA, USA]
Under fire, radio host says transgender comments were 'a joke'

Lambasted by critics for belittling children who expressed transgender feelings, local radio host Arnie States said Wednesday that he didn't do anything wrong.

Did 98 Rock DJs Cross the Line?

[VIH/Sida]

Doentes com VIH sem acesso a cursos
Entrar num curso de formação profissional é mais difícil e, em alguns casos, impossível para um doente infectado com VIH/sida, denunciam várias associações ligadas à doença. Mas é difícil provar a discriminação.

[UK]
Transgender taxi driver sacked
A transgender cab driver working in Leyland says her employers sacked her for wearing nail polish and a skirt.
Andre Edwards, who was born a man but now lives as a woman, claims she lost her job at Leyland Taxis because her employers and clients couldn't deal with her unorthodox lifestyle. (Photo)

[Rússia]
Ativistas LGBT russos querem levar prefeito de Moscou à justiça

Ativistas pró-LGBT da Rússia vão levar o prefeito homofóbico de Moscou, Yuri Luzhkov, à justiça por ele ter dito que os gays "arruinaram o coração da sociedade moralmente saudável". Em maio deste ano, a Parada Gay da capital russa acabou com a prisão de 80 manifestantes. Luzhkov, como já fez no passado, classificou as passeatas gays como obras satânicas.

Activistas homosexuales de Moscú llevarán a la corte al alcalde de la ciudad por insultos

[Venezuela]
Venezuela 'silent' on hate crimes rise
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.

[New Zealand]
Agender's transformational transgender conference
Transgender delegates from around New Zealand met in Wellington at the weekend to share stories, network and help build the transgender community. Trans support network Agender's president Joanne Clarke tells says the 2009 conference was a busy and life-changing three days.(Photo: Joanne Clarke & Carmen Rupe)

[Philippines] [News/Commentary]
Sex change and sex reassignment - Katrina Legarda
In the space of one year, the Supreme Court promulgated two decisions on similar issues: whether a man can become a woman. In one case, the man lost; in another, the man is now a woman. Both cases were brought to the Supreme Court when the Office of the Solicitor General appealed lower court decisions granting the changes requested by both men in their birth certificates.

[Canada]
Fragile peace rattled on the stroll
Despite the efforts of outreach workers who say they have engaged with transsexual sex workers about respecting neighbours in the Homewood and Maitland area, some residents say the sex workers are still causing unreasonable disturbances.

[TN, USA] [Blog/News]
Another Transgender Shooting In Memphis
Just as yesterday's Shelby County Commission hearing on a GLBT workplace protection ordinance was set to begin, gay rights activists got word of a tragedy.
Last Wednesday, Terron Taylor of Whitehaven shot Kelvin Denton, a transgender woman, in the nose and throat after he learned that Denton was a biological male. As of press time, Denton is in critical condition at The Med.
Shooting Suspect Blames Victim's Gender Expression

[CA, USA]
Sacramento DJs Comments Draw Controversy
Hosts Rob Williams and Arnie States made some noise on the "Rob, Arnie and Dawn in the Morning" show on 98.5 KRXQ with comments about the transgender community and children.
Last Thursday during the show, Williams said, "A boy that wears a dress is a freak. He's a nut."
They also described the transgender movement in America as phony.
States said, "God forbid if my son put on a pair of high heels, I would probably hit him with one of my shoes."
[Blog/Commentary] KRXQ Sacramento Radio Hosts Encourage Violence Against Transgender Children
[Blog/News] Radio segment on transgender kids raises hackles
[Blog/Commentary] Take Action: Demand that KRXQ Radio Hosts Rob Williams and Arnie States Apologize for Encouraging Violence Against Transgender Children
[Blog/News] Update: KRXQ Responds to GLAAD’s Call to Action

[CA,USA]
GenderPAC Closes Doors
15 years ago the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (GenderPAC) was the only national group focused on gender issues as we know it today, and few in places of power knew anything about it. The issue was hardly on the national radar in any meaningful way.

[CA, USA]
10th Annual Transgender Pride Celebration
The 10th annual Trans-Unity Pride—the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's annual celebration for transgender, transsexual, gender-queer and cross-dressing individuals and those who love them—will be held June 3-7.

[ID, USA]
Refugee from Iran admits to murder
Majid Kolestani fought to wear women's clothes during a murder trial, but in the end, won't dress for it at all.
The 42-year-old transgender Iranian refugee who identifies as a woman pleaded guilty on Monday in Twin Falls 5th District Court to first-degree murder in a plea agreement that will likely send Kolestani to prison for 18 years to life. (Photo)
Iranian refugee pleads guilty in slaying case
Kolestani's Living Arrangements

[Internacional]
Comité de la ONU adopta cláusulas antidiscriminatorias para la comunidad LGBT

El pasado 25 de mayo, el Comité de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales de la ONU ha incluido en su tratado una cláusula acerca de la no discriminación por orientación sexual o identidad de género en respuesta a una recomendación recibida por la Asociación Internacional de Gays y Lesbianas (ILGA) junto con otras dos organizaciones afines. Las tres organizaciones hicieron esta recomendación al comité mediante un comunicado emitido en diciembre del 2008.

[Brasil]
Seminário nacional discute oportunidades de trabalho para as trans

Começa nesta terça-feira, 2, e vai até a próxima quinta-feira, 4, um seminário nacional que vai discutir trabalho, oportunidades e previdência para travestis e transexuais. A iniciativa será realizada em Brasília, no Hotel Saint Peter, e pretende fazer com que governo e sociedade civil se unam para encontrar soluções para essas demandas das trans. A programação é gratuita e começa às 9h e se estende até as 19h. O Hotel Saint Peter fica no Setor Hoteleiro Sul, Quadra 02 – Bloco D.

[Brasil]
Revista brasileira mostra cotidiano de casal formado por mulher e homem crossdresser

Xuxu e Priscila - um casal formado por uma crossdresser e uma mulher - estamparam a matéria “Amores (im)possíveis” na mais recente edição da revista Época São Paulo, que revela o cotidiano de casais pouco convencionais.

[Australia]
Sex-change clinic "got it wrong"

Australia's only sex-change clinic has been closed temporarily and its director forced to quit following allegations that patients with psychiatric issues have been misdiagnosed as transgender and encouraged to have gender reassignment surgery, reports The Age newspaper.

[NY, USA]
Was it a hate crime?

The murder case of LaTiesh Green, a transgender person who's legal name was Moses Cannon, will be heard by a jury in July. But one question needs to be answered before that trail begins. Will the murder be considered a hate crime?

[CO, USA] [Commentary]
Taking note of a landmark bias case

Discrimination against transgender people is human rights issue

[UK] [Commentary]
European Elections and the UK Gay, Transgender Voter
All things considered, the Greens deserve the LGBT vote on Thursday

[Lebanon]
Hundreds attend launch of book by lesbians
Hundreds of people gathered at Beirut's Medina Theater on Saturday for the launching of "Bareed Mista3jil," (or "Mail in a Hurry"), Lebanon's first ever book about the experiences of gay women and transgenders.

[China]
Shangai realiza primeira Semana do Orgulho Gay

Com muita luta e manifestações, os chineses de Shangai realizarão a primeira Semana do Orgulho Gay, entre os dias 7 e 14 de junho. Organizado pelo grupo Shangai LGBT, o evento contará com jantar inaugural, palestras, competições, exibições de filmes e festas.

[South Korea]
Ha Ri-su opens transgender club
Transgender star Ha Ri-su has opened up a transgender club, "Mix-trans" at Apgujeong-dong in southern Seoul. On May 13, she posted the news on her personal homepage.

[Perú]
A balazos asesinan a travesti
Sujeto bien vestido discutió con él, lo masacró a golpes y luego le disparó tres tiros en avenida Javier Prado.
Se ensañaron con él. De tres balazos, luego de haber sido brutalmente masacrado a golpes, fue asesinado ayer un joven travesti, conocido como 'Papucho', y que todas las noches ofrecía sus servicios sexuales en plena avenida Javier Prado, en La Victoria. (Foto)

[Perú]
Gays, Lesbianas y Trans se manifestaron en Lima contra los Crimenes de Odio

Un grupo de gays, lesbianas , bisexuales y trans se manifestó hoy al mediodía en la Plaza Mayor de Lima en contra de la violencia y los crímenes de odio que anualmente cobran la vida de 70 personas integrantes de esas comunidades. Denunciaron, además, que, la madrugada de hoy una travesti había sido asesinada por un sujeto desconocido quien le disparó a quemaropa en una calle de la zona Este de Lima.

[Bolivia]
En Bolivia, la cirugía de reasignación sexual ya se practica desde hace más de 10 años

Un cirujano plástico de La Paz dice que entre 1996 y 2006 practicó unas 10 cirugías de “cambio de sexo” a varones bolivianos y extranjeros.

[Chile]
Carteles homofobicos en Concepción
“El tercer sexo es de Satanás”. Esta frase y otras similares ocupan los carteles y panfletos que exhiben Las Águilas, un grupo evangélico de Concepción, Chile, que tiene cada vez más influencia en las universidades y que hasta ha organizado marchas de repudio a lesbianas, gays y transexuales. (Foto)

[Argentina]
Intendente de Río Cuarto recibió a representantes de la comunidad gay
Miembros de las organizaciones ATTTA (Asociación de Travestis Transgeneros y Transexuales de Argentina) y Civitas se reunieron esta tarde con el intendente Juan Jure y le manifestaron su rechazo al reciente veto parcial a la ordenanza que rige las uniones civiles de parejas gays.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Boost Mobile’s Education on Trans Issues
As an activist for the transgender community, I never know when an opportunity will come up to educate a company or an organization. Sometimes it’s by accident and other times it’s intentional. However way it comes about, myself and others have to take the time to help them understand. To me, the opportunity happened with Boost Mobile, whose parent company is Sprint Nextel, the company I’ve worked for nearly twenty years.

[TN, USA] [Blog/News]
Non-Discrimination Support Rally Draws Over 500 People
"Equal rights, please! Equal rights, please!" chants the crowd of hundreds gathered outside the steps of Cooper-Young's First Congregational Church.

[Cinema]
Trinta anos depois do primeiro filme da série - ‘Alien’ vai voltar em prequela
Não é provável que Sigourney Weaver vá participar na prequela de ‘Alien’ – embora a actriz tenha já manifestado o seu desejo de regressar. Mas é certo e sabido que, 30 anos depois do filme com que Ridley Scott iniciou uma das sagas mais rentáveis da história do cinema, o ‘bichinho’ vai voltar e agora vamos ficar a conhecer as origens de uma espécie tão mortífera.

[UK] [PR]
UK Trans Survey on Domestic Violence - Closes 1st Sept

[Turkey]
Amnesty International Report: No Improvements in Turkey Including LGBT Issues
In its annual report, Amnesty International cites in Turkey discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity persisted, as did allegations of violence by law enforcement officials against transgender people.

[Philippines] [Commentary]
When She Becomes A He (On Why It Was Granted)
Several months ago we printed an article concerning the failed attempt of a male petitioner to change the entry of his name and sex from male to female in order to reflect the result of a sex reassignment surgery. The Supreme Court in the case Rommel Jacinto Dantes Silverio vs. Republic, G.R. No. 174689, October 22, 2007, held that there is no such special law in the Philippines governing sex reassignment and its effects. It was emphasized that under the Civil Register Law, a birth certificate is a historical record of the facts as they existed at the time of birth. Thus, the sex of a person is determined at birth, visually done by the birth attendant (the physician or midwife) by examining the genitals of the infant. Considering that there is no law legally recognizing sex reassignment, the determination of a person's sex made at the time of his or her birth, if not attended by error, is immutable. The words “male” and “female” in everyday understanding do not include persons who have undergone sex reassignment. Furthermore, “words that are employed in a statute which had at the time a well-known meaning are presumed to have been used in that sense unless the context compels to the contrary.” Since the statutory language of the Civil Register Law was enacted in the early 1900s and remains unchanged, it cannot be argued that the term “sex” as used then is something alterable through surgery or something that allows a post-operative male-to-female transsexual to be included in the category “female.”

[Australia]
Change of direction, new love
RACHEL and Kimberley Rae say they owe their lives to Dr Trudy Kennedy and the gender dysphoria clinic she worked at. Theirs is an unlikely love story.
Born male, they both longed to be female, knowing from the age of five they weren't like other little boys. In adulthood the decision to "stop living a lie" brought them together.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Stop Sexualizing Us!
For decades, the general public, and especially the media, have had a lurid fascination with trans people’s bodies and sexualities. From talk shows like Jerry Springer, to reality shows like There’s Something About Miriam, novels like Myra Breckinridge, and the countless movies that portray trans women almost exclusively as either sex workers, sexual predators and sexual deviants. This hypersexualization of transgenderism predominantly targets trans women and others on the trans feminine spectrum—because in a world where women are routinely objectified, and where a woman’s worth is often judged based on her sexual appeal, it is no surprise that many people presume that those of us who were assigned a male sex at birth, but who identify as women and/or dress in a feminine manner, must do so for primarily sexual reasons.

[IL, USA]
Alexandra Billings named Grand Marshal for Chicago Pride Parade
Excerpt: This year's parade commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion where gays, lesbians, bisexuals and especially the transgender community fought back at a police raid. "It is especially fitting that Alexandra, a transgender woman, be Grand Marshal," said parade organizers.

[USA] [News/Commentary]
The absence of trans men in pornography
A few months ago some friends and I ventured into Good Vibrations in the Mission on a quest for some good porn. I was interested in seeing some “straight” FtM porn—i.e. a movie with a trans man having sex with a woman—but to my chagrin there wasn’t much of that genre to be found. Why not?
There seems to be a plethora of porn with trans women (MtF) and cis-men, often referred to as Shemale Porn, where straight men get “tricked.” Porn star, Wendy Williams talked to San Francisco Bay Guardian about her fanbase being largely made up of straight men and why she believes there’s a lack of FtM porn out there—commenting that FtMs still have “a female brain” while she still has a “male brain”—this is problematic to me on many levels and I do not agree with her in the slightest. In Julia Serano’s book Whipping Girl she suggests that trans men are less visible because they pose a threat to cisexual men. I can’t help but wonder if this is really why trans men are rarely seen in porn—especially “straight” porn.

[España]
mobilizaçons simultâneas de apoio a Laura Bugalho

DOMINGO 31 DE MAIO

A CORUNHA, 20'30, DELEGAÇOM DO GOVERNO
"Defender às pessoas migrantes nom é delicto, liberdade sem cárregos para Laura Bugalho"
http://maribolheras.blog.com/

ZARAGOZA, 20'00, PLAZA DE ESPAÑA
"Defender a las personas migrantes no es un delito, librtad sin cargos de Laura Bugallo"
http://stonewall-aragon.blogspot.com/

MADRID, 20'00, HERNÁN CORTÉS Nº9 (METRO CHUECA)
"Contra la criminalización de apoyo a migrantes, libertad sin cargos para Laura Bugalho"
http://www.aceradelfrente.blogspot.com/

APOIOS RECEBIDOS:

CICLOBOLLOS (MADRID)
PATERAS DA VIDA (MARROCOS)
TNT- TRANSTORNADOS
ARCADIA LGBT LIBERTARIOS
EL GRITO DE LAS BRUJAS
CASAPUEBLOS
NuDU (Núcleo de Diversidade Sexual da Unicamp, Sao Paulo-BRASIL)
IDENTIDADE (Grupo de luta pela deiversidade sexual, Campinas-BRASIL)
Red de Apoyo Ferrocarril Clandestino (Madrid)
Marcha Mundial das Mulleres
BOGA (Asociación de mulleres lésbicas e bisexuais de Galiza)
Assembleia de Mulheres de Vigo
PCPG (Partido Comunista do Povo Galego)
AGaSEX (Asociación Galega para a Saúde Sexual)
Centrro Xoven Anticoncepción
ASADE Gipuzkoa (Asociación sindical de asistencia domiciliaria de Gipuzkoa)
LAB Araba (sindikatua)
Asociación de Transexuales de Andalucia (ATA)
komando Güebo
Nós Mesmas (Vigo)
Patio Maravillas (madrid)
Secretariado Trans de ILGA (International Lesbian and Gay Assotiation)
FugaEmRede (Colectivo galego de acçom global)
Universidade Invisíbel
SOS Racismo Aragón
Red de Apoyo a las Sin Papeles de Aragón
La Manada Degenerada Feminista de Barcelona
revista La C.U.L.O. (Barcelona)
EIPCEP (European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies-Vienna/Linz/Marseille)
GARAIPEN (Asociación de mujeres inmigrantes y vascas)
ACSUR GALIZA
Corrdinadora Antifascista de Zaragoza
LSO CASA DAS ATOCHASUKS (Colectivo de mulleres de diferentes disciplinas culturais)
LAS CHULAZAS (DONOSTI)
LAS DEL 8 (grupo feminista Aragón)
D-GENERADAS (feministas Aragón)
ET AL (feministas Aragón)
STONEWALL (ARAGÓN)
GAZTEHGAM (EUSKAL HERRIA)
ACERDA DEL FRENTE (MADRID)
NOMEPISESOFREGHAO (CORUNHA)
EHGAM (GUIPUZKOA)
RQTR Rosa Que te Quiero Rosa (MADRID)
HEGOAK (Bilbo)
OFF LIMITS (MADRID)
GUERRILLA TRAVOLAKA (BARCELONA)
XARXA D´ACCIÓ TRANS E INTERSEX (BARCELONA)
MEDEAK (DONOSTIA)
PLAZANDREOK (DONOSTIA)
EMAKIN (DONOSTIA)
7 MENOS 20 (GASTEIZ)
STONEWALL (ZARAGOZA)
ATC LIBERTAD (BARCELONA)
MARIBOLHERAS PRECÁRIAS (CORUNHA)
MULHERES TRANSGREDINDO (COMPOSTELA)
PRESOS (GALIZA)
COMISIÓN DENUNCIA (GALIZA)
CASA ENCANTADA (COMPOSTELA)
C.S. ATREU! (A CORUNHA)
REDE DEREITOS SOCIAIS (A CORUNHA)
MOVIMENTO PANTERAS ROSAS (LISBOA)
EUSKAL HERRIKO BILGUNE FEMINISTA
COLECTIVO HETAIRA (MADRID)
TOWANDA (ZARAGOZA)

APOIOS INDIVIDUAIS:

BEATRIZ PRECIADO (UNIV PARÍS VIII)
RAIMUNDO VIEJO VIÑAS (UPF)
JOSÉ ÁNGEL BRANDARIZ GARCÍA (UDC professor Direito Penal)
JORDI CLARAMONTE (PROF. UNED)
MARÍA JOSÉ BELBEL (PROJECTO DIG MI OUT)
ISMAEL GALVE ROPERH
ALCIRA PADÍN TORRES (FERROCARRIL CLANDESTINO)
MAR M. NÚÑEZ
MIGUEL BELNLLOCH MARÍN
ANTELA (PORTUGAL)
RAQUEL PLATERO
MIGUEL A. POUSADA
MARIBEL PIZARRO
MERCE MOURENCE FERNÁNDEZ
FRAU DIAMANDA (Lima)
ANA MARIA ARELLANO SALAFRANCA
CARLOS HERRERA GARCÍA
NINES MAESTRO SERRANO
ANTONIO GARCÍA
GEMA FERNÁNDEZ
NINA NIJSTEN (BÉLGICA)
AINHOA RENEDO OTAEGUI (TRANSMEDEAK)
EDUARDA SANTOS, activista transexual independente (Portugal)
LARA CRESPO, activista transexual independente (Portugal)
JUANA RAMOS (activista trans, expresidenta de TRANSEXUALIA e Exsecretaria da FELGBT) ANDREA SHULLER
ROBERTO CHARRO PRESA
SONIA PEREZ COPERO
EVA SALGADO
AIDA GARCIA FERNANDEZ
IRENE GALVÁN
MARTA SALVÁNS SOLÉ (ACTIVISTA TRANS UGT CATALUNYA)
RODRIGO ROSA (ACTIVISTA QUEER, CAMPINAS-SAO PAULO)
COURNUT AGHATE (STRASBOURG)
CHABIER MALLOR MONZON
JOSÉ ENRIQUE EMA LÓPEZ
DÉVORA ÁVILA (professora Univesidad Castilla la Mancha/Ferrocarril Clandestino)
JANA QUINTANILLA (Coordinadora Área Transexuales Federación Castilla y Leon LGBT)
MANUEL PÉREZ GAGOCAMILA ESGUERRA MUELLE (antropóloga colombiana)

[UK]
Crossdresser Killed By Skirt
A CROSSDRESSER drowned when he fell in the sea because his mini skirt was too tight, an inquest heard yesterday.
Miniskirt may have caused Anglesey man's death

[Turkey]
Esmeray Hopes Transgender People Will Follow Example
Transgender Esmeray has taken two police officers to court for beating her

[Sweden] [News/Religion]
Sweden: Lesbian elected Lutheran bishop of Stockholm
Excerpt: "Once you have been baptized, no one can say you cannot be part of the Church because you are homo-, bi-, or transsexual," the website of the French periodical Tétu quoted Brunne as saying, ENI reported.

[Nigeria]
Ekaete in need of N2 million for surgery
The sum of ₦2 million is what is required to save the career of a Falcon teenager, Bessy Ekaete Boniface who is having an intersex problem.
This was revealed by Gbenga Omole, who runs Goldenwing33 Nigeria Limited, an outfit aimed at saving barracks boys and girls from going into organised criminal activities using sports.

[Honduras]
Honduras: End Violence Against Transgender People
Government Should Prosecute Attackers and Prohibit Discrimination
Group calls for transgender protections
Honduran Police Aid, Abet Trans Murder
Honduras: Report on Attacks on Transgender People

[ME, USA]
Transgender woman reveals difficulties
Brianna Freeman, a transgender woman who lived the first four decades of her life as a man, said she knows firsthand about the pain caused by discrimination.

[OR, USA]
Principal cancels controversial photo exhibit
A photo exhibit that included a transgendered person will not be displayed at a Eugene elementary school, according to a letter the principal sent home to parents. (Photo)
Principal drops photo display

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
APA Debates Gender Diversity
This past week the American Psychiatric Association held its annual conference in San Francisco. Seminars were held, lectures given, and ideas discussed. The future of the DSM, Diagnostic and Statistics Manual, often called the APA’s Bible, was up for debate. Even though women are included in the APA, this organization is still a bastion of patriarchal thinking and the idea that “father knows best” easily converts into codifying diagnoses which unjustly demonize individuality.

[Brasil]
Série Meninos Mulheres – Parte II e III - Clicar em Jornal da band e procurar nos vídeos (Vídeo)

[Brasil]

Campanha educativa de grupo de Brasília foca vida amorosa de travestis

O Estruturação – Grupo LGBT de Brasília lançou nesta semana um material específico sobre a importante negociação para o uso da camisinha nos relacionamentos amorosos das travestis. A ideia é reforçar a importância do uso do preservativo tanto com clientes quanto com namorados. O material foi elaborado depois que o grupo, que atua na prevenção há pelo menos 10 anos, percebeu que as fofas usavam camisinha com seus clientes, mas nem sempre com seus parceiros fixos.

[Alemanha]
A transexual mais nova do mundo
Kim Petras é uma adolescente que virou popstar na Alemanha. A cantora nasceu Tim Petras e aos 12 anos de idade começou o tratamento hormonal para mudar de sexo. Hoje, aos 16 anos de idade, a garota é a transexual mais nova do mundo.(Foto)
Sex change kid Kim Petras set for charts

[Honduras]
HRW denuncia el asesinato de personas transgénero desde 2004 en Honduras
La organización Human Rights Watch denunció hoy en Honduras que entre 2004 y 2009 en este país han sido asesinadas en lugares públicos 17 personas transgénero, conocidas como travestis.

[NJ, USA] [Blog/Commentary]
The right to live as the right gender: The life of a transsexual
Although there have been documentaries and talk shows that have explored the life of a transsexual, the condition is much maligned and misunderstood. Before we explore what a transsexual is, we will discuss what it is not.

[NY,USA] [Events/People]
Staten Island Pride Parade and Festival goes under the big top on June 6
Anson Reign is fighting for equality -- drag equality.

[PA, USA]
Construction worker transitions to woman
For Karen Diane Thomas, a construction worker, transitioning to the opposite gender hasn’t been an easy road.
Twice in her journey, Thomas reverted back to presenting as a male, due in large part to workplace harassment. At one point, she underwent breast-reduction surgery so that she could assume her former identity, as Ken. (Photo)

[CA, USA] [Blog/News/People]
Sparks rules out third term as police panel prez
Theresa Sparks, the transgender woman who has served two terms as president of the city’s police commission, has ruled out running for a third term.

[Brasil]
Relação conflituosa entre empresário e travesti é tema de peça em SP
Um executivo casado, transtornado e preconceituoso. Uma telefonista sensível, corajosa e travesti. De uma ligação, o encontro dos dois mundos e o despertar de conflituosos sentimentos. (Foto)

[España]
COLEGAS denuncia la "ola represiva" de Cuba contra los homosexuales

La Confederación Española COLEGAS de Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales y Transexuales ha denunciado este jueves "la ola represiva contra homosexuales y transexuales" que sufre la isla de Cuba por parte del régimen comunista, precisando que en los dos últimos años más de 7.000 miembros de este colectivo han sido detenidos o multados por las autoridades cubanas.

[Cuba]
Cuba comienza a realizar operaciones de cambio de sexo
"Hemos sido autorizados a aplicar el tratamiento completo", dijo Mariela Castro, quien es también hija del presidente Raúl Castro y agregó que eso incluye "la cirugía feminizante y masculinizante", algo que estuvo prohibido por dos décadas, hasta el año 2008.

Castro's daughter: Cuba to reinstate sex changes

[Argentina]
Travesti es candidata en lista de Luis Patti
Mientras recorre los pasillos de la villa El Tropezón, en pleno corazón del partido de San Martín, su presencia no pasa inadvertida. Los vecinos más veteranos lo llaman por el nombre que, desde hace 53 años, figura en su DNI: Héctor Toribio Díaz. Todo el resto se refiere a ella por el modo que eligió llamarse hace más de 35 años, cuando descubrió que era una mujer dentro del cuerpo de un hombre: Alicia.(Foto)

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]

Aligning Bodies With Minds: The Case For Medical And Surgical Treatment Of Gender Dysphoria

As a physician who has successfully completed the process of transition from male to female, I find it strange and inappropriate that I may still be considered “mentally ill” by those who would take literally the diagnosis of “gender identity disorder” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV). I believe such a diagnosis is incorrect, and submit this review to support my belief.

[CO, USA] [Film/Events]
Cinema Q Film Festival

The Denver Film Society along with The GLBT Community Center of Colorado and OutFront Colorado are proud to present the first annual Cinema Q: A Festival Of Queer Cinema. The festival takes place over four days beginning Thursday, May 28, through Sunday, May 31, 2009; an official kickoff to June Pride Month.

[CO, USA] [News/Commentary]
Seven unanswered questions about the trial of Angie Zapata's killer

On April 22, Allen Andrade, an unemployed 32-year-old who had spent time in prison for a string of non-violent crimes, was convicted of first-degree murder for beating to death eighteen-year-old Angie Zapata of Greeley. A striking beauty, Angie was born a boy named Justin David Zapata but had been living as a woman for several years. She and Andrade had met sometime before the murder on the social networking website MocoSpace and spent three days together before he killed her.

[USA] [News/Health/Medicine]
Sexual-Minority Patients Face Challenges in Receiving Care

Although sexual-minority cancer patients who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) face many of the same challenges faced by their heterosexual counterparts, many other obstacles are specific to their sexual-minority status.

[Brasil]
Mais uma travesti é morta nas ruas de Curitiba
A travesti conhecida como Dara foi encontrada morta em Curitiba na madrugada desta terça, 26. A vítima foi morta a tiros e o corpo foi achado no banco do carona de um Uno branco que havia sido roubado no último fim de semana. De acordo com a polícia, um vigilante contou ter ouvido cinco tiros e ter visto o automóvel estacionando na Rua Mamoré.

[España]
Detenida Laura Bugalho, sindicalista, activista trans y fundadora de Transgaliza
O martes 26 de maio a Policia Nacional, por orde da Subdelegación do Goberno, procedía á detención da compañeira Laura Bugallo, traballadora da CIG-Migración en Compostela, incansábel loitadora na defensa dos dereitos das persoas inmigrantes, asi como coñecida pola súa actividade no feminismo e no movemento LGBT, nomeadamente desde o seu labor en Transgaliza polo recoñecemento dos dereitos e da visibilización das transexuais. (Foto)

[España/Cuba]
Califican de mercenaria a web por difundir noticias sobre situación de Comunidad LGTB en Cuba
Recientemente el portal Cubaencuentro.com, conocido por su critica postura hacia el regimen castrista en la Isla, publicó la noticia “Gays cubanos denuncian incremento de la represion policial”, que tambien se hizo eco SentidoG.com, y la web de información transexual CarlaAntonelli.com, entre otras.

[Turquia]
Protestan gays turcos ante crímenes de odio
Activistas por los derechos homosexuales se reunieron de forma pacífica en la plaza de Taksim, en Estambul, para denunciar que durante los últimos tres años se han cometido una treintena de homicidios de personas LGBT.

[India]
Indian gay community plans to organise Queer Pride Day
July 28 is slated to be a big day for the Indian gay community. They will will celebrate the sexual preference diversity of human kind. In Delhi, the will organise marches, singing and make speeches.

[Canada]