[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.