[Brasil]
'A Fazenda': peão diz que ficaria com um travesti
Compadre Washington e Dinei, peões de A Fazenda 4, conversaram na noite desta quarta-feira (24) sobre transexuais. O compositor contou que, em uma viagem para a Suíça, se surpreendeu ao descobrir que uma mulher muito bonita era na verdade um travesti.
O peão disse que ficaria com uma se estivesse bêbado. "Mamado, se não passar mal, eu vou", afirmou o confinado.

[USA]
Preparing for Hurricane Irene
Increasing reports show that Hurricane Irene is gaining strength as it heads to North Carolina's Outer Banks and up the East Coast. As residents prepare for Irene's landfall, NCTE emphasizes care for transgender people displaced by the storm. In the past, transgender people have faced disrespect and discrimination when seeking resources or accessing homeless and emergency shelters.

Read our Hurricane Preparedness Kit and pass it on to friends and loved ones who may be impacted by the storm.

If you are experiencing disrespect or discrimination in a relief shelter or emergency service, please call a Lambda Legal National Help Desk for assistance:

Toll free: (866) 542-8336
New York: (212) 809-8585
Atlanta: (404) 897-1880

We strongly recommend bringing the Hurricane Preparedness Kit with you if you evacuate so that you will have all of the resource numbers in case you encounter a problem.

Visit this site for updates on Irene's development.

Stay Safe

[USA]
What Two Bloodied Tragedies Can Teach About Transgender Women of Color
A recent wave of violence, including murders in New York City and Washington, D.C., puts an urgent focus on the predicament faced by many transgender women of color.

[USA]
Telling tales of lesbian trans
Fifteen years after its original publication, Mirrors: Portrait of a Lesbian Transsexual, a classic in lesbian feminist and transgender/transsexual literary history by Geri Nettick and Beth Elliott, who are the same person, is reborn.

[AZ, USA]
Maricopa Community Colleges weigh transgender-bias policy
Men and women who identify as the other gender would be protected from harassment at Maricopa Community Colleges’ campuses under a proposed addition to the district’s non-discrimination policy.

[CA, USA]
Jurors May Consider Manslaughter in Gay Killing
A California judge decided jurors can consider convicting a teen of voluntary manslaughter in the killing of a gay classmate at school.
McInerney Could Get Off With Manslaughter

[CA, USA]
The Gorgeous lady of wrestling
Entering the men’s locker room in San Ysidro’s Border View YMCA on a Friday night, Ruby Gardenia draws all sorts of catcalls.

[NM, USA]
Trans Mission
Sometimes it takes a while for people to figure out who they are. For Adrien Lawyer, that’s an understatement.
“I didn’t know there was such a thing as myself until I was 26,” he says, smiling and scruffy at the end of a long day. It wasn’t until he sat down with a copy of 1993’s Stone Butch Blues, a landmark novel, that he was introduced to the word “transgender.”

[TN, USA]
Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition to host fundraising dinner
The Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition will host its seventh annual fundraising dinner Saturday, Oct. 22 at Nashville's Holy Trinity Community Church. Keynote speaker for the event is State Senator Beverly Marrero (D-Memphis).

[Cuba]
Frutas prohibidas
En Cuba, los derechos, la dignidad, la igualdad, la inclusión, la no discriminación… siguen estando vedados para las personas LGBT

[Venezuela]
La Coalición LGBTI Venezolana ha exigido el cese de la violencia contra la población LGTB
La Coalición LGBTI Venezolana, representativa de las minorías sexuales del país, ha condenado el asesinato de una mujer transexual que recibió múltiples impactos de bala el pasado 23 de julio durante su estancia en una parroquia local. Exigen que el Estado se comprometa en la erradicación de la violencia por homofobia y transfobia.

[Venezuela]
Placer que se vende en las esquinas: Trabajadores sexuales gay menores de edad
Excerto: "En Barinas trabajábamos como transexuales, pero aquí en Caracas preferimos quedarnos vestidos de hombres porque es más seguro. Nos vinimos de la avenida Solano a trabajar a Altamira, porque nos dijeron que aquí hay más gente de plata, viejos, homosexuales y la policía no molesta, pero el lunes nos robaron en Chacaíto mientras buscábamos un hotel", comentó Daniel.

[Argentina]
Alejandro Iglesias, el transexual de Gran Hermano 2011, presentó a su novia
Un día después de la decepción de haber quedado afuera del baile del caño en “ShowMatch”, el ex GH2011 presentó a su novia.