[Brasil]
'Quero peitos de silicone, mas não mexo em nada lá embaixo', diz Laerte
Marilia Coutinho, 49, irmã caçula do cartunista Laerte, gosta de uma ideia do autor de "Alice no País das Maravilhas", o inglês Lewis Carroll (1832-1898). "Ele dizia que as pessoas não deveriam depositar suas esperanças de felicidade em algo que podem perder. E veja: você nunca vai perder uma barra de aço."

[Brasil]
Cinco homossexuais são mortos em dois meses
Excerto: Antes, o estudante Jessé Henrique Matsui Gonzaga, 16, foi assassinado com dois tiros na nuca, em frente à Escola Estadual Professor Nélson Alves Ferreira, na rua 5 de Setembro, bairro Betânia, Zona Sul, na noite da última quarta-feira (20).
“O rapaz era um drag queen e morreu porque se desentendeu com uma colega em sala de aula”, afirma.

[Brasil]
Travesti é encontrado morto a tiros na região metropolitana
A Polícia Militar procura suspeitos de matarem um travesti na madrugada deste domingo (24), em Contagem, na região metropolitana de Belo Horizonte.

[UK]
Jackie is stunning and we’re in love.. I don’t care she used to be Jack
TENDERLY holding hands and smiling contentedly, Jackie Green and her boyfriend Kyle Mear look like any other young couple madly in love on Valentine’s Day.

[Poland]
Q&A :: Palikot’s Trojan Horse in Parliament
“Many voters didn’t know Anna Grodzka was a transsexual,” says LGBT rights defender.

[Ukraine]
Ukraine promises to ban anti-gay discrimination
The Ukrainian foreign minister, Leonid Kozhara, has promised that the country will soon ban all anti-gay discrimination in an interview with a Polish newspaper.

[Indonesia]
Women build home for Indonesia’s aging transgender community
Traditionally, elderly people in Indonesia are cared for BY their families but that’s not the case for the country’s large transgender community.

[AZ, USA]
Phoenix to consider expanding anti-bias law to include LGBT residents
The Phoenix city council is expected to vote this month on whether to expand the city’s anti-discrimination ordinance to prohibit discrimination against its LGBT residents.
Phoenix commissions approve LGBT and disability protections
Phoenix to consider expanding city's anti-bias law

[CA, USA]
Trans health officer offers sensitivity classes
A transgender woman on the Health Commission in San Francisco who previously advocated for the Department of Public Health there to pay for gender reassignment surgeries for uninsured transgender patients has developed sessions called Transgender 101 to increase trans sensitivity and awareness there, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

[FL, USA]
9 gender-neutral bathrooms added to UCF main campus
Nine gender-neutral bathrooms have sprung up around campus because of UCF LGBTQ Services and the community’s questioning of gender separation within society.

[NC, USA]
The Potential Impact of a Strict Voter Identification Law on Transgender Voters in North Carolina
Transgender people who have transitioned to live in a gender different from the gender assigned to them at birth face unique obstacles to obtaining identification documents that reflect their correct gender.

[TX, USA]
Gender queer speaker Shane Whalley discusses the transgender community and its struggles in an open session
Shane Whalley, education coordinator of the University’s Gender and Sexuality Center, said progress has been made in accommodating the transgender community both on and off campus, but there is a long way to go.