[Brasil]
Em capa de revista, modelo Carol Marra diz: 'Existe muito preconceito no meio gay'
Depois de fotografar para a revista feminina Uma, a modelo transexual Carol Marra, de 25 anos, é capa da mais nova edição da revista Simples Assim, voltada ao público LGBT. Nela, a modelo diz: “Sou mulher de verdade desde que nasci”.

[Brasil]
OEA condena assassinato de duas travestis no Brasil
A Comissão Interamericana de Direitos Humanos condenou dois assassinatos de travestis no Brasil e cobrou a investigação dos crimes para não abrir espaço à cultura de impunidade. O primeiro caso ocorreu em Curitiba e o segundo se deu em Bauru, no interior de São Paulo, ambos no final de junho.

[UK]
London hosts Olympic games you won’t find in a stadium
Tranny Olympics, the international celebration of transgender nightlife, returns to London for its fourth year running

[France]
France outlaws transgender bigotry
The French Senate has unanimously passed a legal amendment to outlaw transphobia

[Suécia]
Transexuais não podem ser violadas
Um sueco foi ilibado da acusação de tentativa de violação a uma transexual - porque a sua intenção era violar uma mulher.

[Malta]
‘Transgender’s case should be thrown out’
The European Court of Human Rights ought to overturn a 2002 judgement that separated the right to marry from the right to form a family and throw out the case a transgender filed against Malta, according to an international NGO.

[Turkey]
Petition launched to address Turkish ‘honour killings’
A petition has been started to lobby Turkey’s president to address the ‘honour killings’ of gay and transgender people in his country.

[Canada]
Halifax health facility introduces gender-neutral washroom signs
Nova Scotia's Capital District Health Authority took a step toward inclusiveness this week by introducing gender-neutral washroom signs at its new primary care/Dal Family medicine offices.
Capital Health adds transgender bathroom signs

[LA, USA]
UL-Lafayette gender studies minor under fire
The head of a prominent conservative Christian group in Louisiana is critical of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette for offering a new lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies minor.

[MO, USA]
Anti-LGBT Activist Targets ‘Gay Fascism’ Ordinance in Springfield, Mo.
Scott Lively, the anti-gay activist behind Abiding Truth Ministries, has been engaged in a decades-long, international campaign to demonize the LGBT community. He has lobbied on behalf of a law in Uganda to make homosexuality punishable by death and has worked hard to propagate the myth that gay men caused the Holocaust.

[PA, USA]
‘Trans' a look at a transgendered New Hope plastic surgeon
She's one of the transgender community's most passionate advocates. Yet New Hope plastic surgeon Christine McGinn has an equally intense suspicion of the news media even as she relies on them to get her message heard.

[SC, USA]
S.C. Episcopal representatives denounce same-sex blessing rite
The Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina continues to distance itself from the 77th General Convention’s approval of a provisional rite for same-sex unions.

[Jamaica]
Jamaica Police Commissioner Blames Gays for Violence
Les Green denied reports of widespread homophobic violence in the country and suggested that gay people were largely to blame for killing each other.
Jamaica ‘not intolerant of gays’, assistant police commissioner says