[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.