[Brasil]
Travestis livram Ronaldo de sexo e drogas
Os travestis Andréia e Carla, que se envolveram em uma polêmica com o atacante Ronaldo, do Milan, estiveram na manhã desta segunda-feira no 16º Distrito Policial, na Barra da Tijuca, Zona Oeste do Rio de Janeiro, onde prestaram depoimento. Ambos disseram que estão arrependidos pelo caso e afirmaram que não houve sexo e consumo de drogas com o jogador.
Ronaldo sorry for encounter with cross-dressing prostitutes
Brazilian star Ronaldo says he's sorry, embarrassed and ashamed about his highly publicized encounter a week ago with three cross-dressing prostitutes, calling it the biggest mistake of his life.
Prostitutes change story in Ronaldo case
Cross-dressing prostitutes lied when they accused AC Milan striker Ronaldo of using drugs and having sex with them during a motel encounter last week, police said Tuesday.

[Europa]
UEEH 2008
As UEEH – Universidades de Verão Euro-mediterrânicas das Homossexualidades - decorrerão de 16 a 30 de Julho de 2008 no Campus de Luminy em Marselha.

[UK]
Burns flames gay relationships
Dead or Alive frontman Pete Burns has launched a bitter tirade against gay men after splitting with his husband of 10 months, Michael Simpson.
Burns, 49, whose songs 'You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)' and 'Sex Drive' have filled gay club dance floors for two decades, said gay men were too predatory, emotionally inadequate and narcissistic for such a "sacred institution" as marriage.
Photo: Pete Burns

[Cuba]
Cuba celebrará por segunda vez la jornada mundial contra la homofobia
Cuba celebrará por segunda ocasión la jornada mundial contra la homofobia, el próximo sábado 17, ya no con una pequeña reunión de interesados, como el año pasado, sino con un amplio programa público, informó el Centro Nacional de Educación Sexual (Cenesex).

[Philippines]
Philippines cardinal bars cross-dressers from Marian processions
Archbishop of Manila Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales has forbidden cross-dressing homosexuals from dressing up as female saints in religious processions, calling the actions an "insult to the Blessed Mother."

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
uh-oh.
A short time ago, I'd discussed the movement to have "Gender Identity Disorder" (GID, a.k.a. "Gender Dysphoria") removed from the DSM-IV or reclassified, and how we needed to work to ensure that any such change was an improvement on the existing model, rather than a scrapping or savaging of it.
Lynn Conway reports that on May 1st, 2008, the American Psychiatric Association named its work group members appointed to revise the Manual for Diagnosis of Mental Disorders in preparation for the DSM-V. Such a revision would include the entry for GID.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Standing with our Transgender Friends
PFLAG is proud of our long history of support for the transgender community. We were the first LGBT organization to include transgender allies in our mission statement, and our national board made a commitment - in 2002 - to only supporting legislation that is fully inclusive of every member of our families, including our transgender loved ones, too.

[USA]
HRC president apologizes for ‘misspeaking’ at transgender conference
Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese met with a handful of transgender activists in Atlanta last week and apologized for "misspeaking" at last year's Southern Comfort conference, where he promised HRC would only support an Employment Non-Discrimination Act that included gender identity, according to people attending the meeting.

[CA, USA]
California Supreme Court to hear case of lesbian denied infertility treatment by Christian fundamentalists
The California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday, May 28, 2008 in the case of an Oceanside lesbian whose doctors at North Coast Women's Care Medical Group denied her fertility treatments based on their religious beliefs.

[CA, USA]
Field of Dreams
Two hours south of San Francisco in the agricultural hub of Salinas, Calif., a Mexican immigrant worked as a foreman in a produce packing plant, supervising nearly 100 people for eight to 10 hours a day, sometimes seven days a week. In three years on the job, there were never any problems with coworkers or the boss -- until the foreman began transitioning to be a woman.
"After I started taking the hormones and dressing like a woman," Sandra says in Spanish via a translator, "I started being treated differently."

Photo: Sandra