tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60162692011-12-18T13:41:59.810-08:00transdadapoetics, time, body disruption and marginally queer solutionskarinoreply@blogger.comBlogger37321100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1175038842531439822007-03-27T16:38:00.000-07:002007-03-27T16:40:42.936-07:00You are invited to a celebration of the life and work of kari edwards (1954-2006) This event will celebrate kari's indomitable spirit and compassionate revelation of body and language. The tribute will focus on kari's considerable legacy and include, poetry, music, performance and presentations of visual art.Friday, April 27, 2007 at 7:30 PM San Francisco Campus of the California College of the karinoreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1165249272836033832006-12-04T08:19:00.000-08:002006-12-07T10:59:28.820-08:00My loving partner and publisher of this blog, kari edwards, died on 12/2/06 her birthday. She touched so many people with her work and her blogs. I know her presence in the world and on the internet will live on. Thank you.karinoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1164640760915534442006-11-27T07:18:00.000-08:002006-11-27T07:19:21.560-08:00Workers World fought gay oppression before Stonewal By Leslie Feinberg Years before the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion, the leadership of Workers World Party understood the need to fight oppression as a many-headed hydra.I joined Workers World Party (WWP) in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1973, drawn to its ranks by my rage at the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the bloody CIA-orchestrated counter-revolution inkarinoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1164384037758096322006-11-24T07:59:00.000-08:002006-11-24T08:00:40.240-08:00Transvestite killings on the rise in GuatemalaGUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Two transvestites were shot dead in broad daylight on Wednesday, their bodies riddled with bullets in the latest in a wave of suspected hate crimes in Guatemala.The transvestites, in their 20s, were gunned down together outside a bar in the crime-ridden Villanueva neighborhood of the capital. They were shot in the face and karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1164291731136060632006-11-23T06:21:00.000-08:002006-11-23T06:22:11.756-08:00Settlement reached in transgender caseA transgender woman from Arvada who said she was fired after she announced she planned to have sex-change surgery has reached a settlement with her former employer. Danielle Cornwell, who lived most of her life as David, will return to work next month as part of a settlement with Intermountain Testing Company of Englewood, according to a statement released karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1164131466106847512006-11-21T09:49:00.000-08:002006-11-21T09:51:06.616-08:00A Hidden Life: Being Gay in Rural ChinaNew America Media, News Feature, Rian Dundon, Interview and Translation by Lisa Sangoi, Nov 20, 2006Editor's Note: Homosexuality has gained some acceptance in metropolitan cities like Shanghai and Beijing. But in rural China, as one young man explains, being gay is still a secret he must keep from his family. New America Media contributor Rian Dundon is a karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1164042009289504682006-11-20T08:59:00.000-08:002006-11-20T09:00:09.810-08:00Memorial to Transgender Transsexual Suicide Victims November 21stMost people are familiar with the terrible violence committed against Transsexuals and the Transgendered. Every November 20th we hold vigils in honor of the Transgender Day of Remembrance. This is the least we can do. However we also need to honor an even larger amount of Transgendered which are the victims of Suicide. There are karinoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1163516245382843302006-11-14T06:55:00.000-08:002006-11-14T06:57:26.020-08:00San Francisco Appeals Gay Marriage OrderSAN FRANCISCO -- A month after an appeals court ruled against same-sex marriage, the city and about a dozen homosexual couples have filed an appeal to the California Supreme Court.Gay marriage advocates hope to overturn the ruling that said limiting marriage to a man and a woman does not violate the constitutional rights of gays and lesbians.If the high karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1163354113246467662006-11-12T09:53:00.000-08:002006-11-12T16:49:00.443-08:00(fron: lgbt-india] Police arrest Int'l LGBT Conference Organisers in Belarus Gomel, 08 November 2006: Today, at 8:20 pm the special police forces broke into the apartment where the meeting of Organizing Committee of the International LGBT Conference took place and arrested seven people: Vyacheslav Andreev, Sviatlana Bortnik, Svyatoslav Sementsov, Tanya Ivanova, Aleksei Filipenko, Natallia karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1163265955276230902006-11-11T09:25:00.000-08:002006-11-11T09:25:57.663-08:00S. African gays suffer despite legal protectionAt an informal, unlicensed bar at a house in a remote corner of Soweto, South Africa, men and women sip lukewarm beer, mingle, flirt and sometimes dance to driving and monotonous kwaito rhythms. They share a secret. The bar, called a shebeen in the townships, is one of the places where young black gays don't have to hide who they are, where they can karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1163169679966055962006-11-10T06:40:00.000-08:002006-11-10T06:41:32.436-08:00Historic First Win for Openly Transgender Candidate in Hawaii (Washington, DC) — Tuesday's mid-term elections marked a historic first in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LBGT) movement for equality and civic engagement. With a comfortable victory garnering 81,532 votes, attorney Kim Coco Iwamoto was elected to Hawaii's state-level Board of Education (Oahu-at-Large), a non-partisan karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1162821902297845362006-11-06T06:04:00.000-08:002006-11-06T06:05:02.793-08:00Two Orissa girls defy norms, get marriedKORAPUT: Two Kondh women from Orissa's Koraput district have defied all norms of their tribal society to live as ˜man and wife" after tying the knot recently. Bateka Palang, 30, wed her bride, 25-year-old Maleka Nilsa of Ghumuru village in Bandhugaon block in a traditional ceremony at Dandabadi, a remote village in Narayanpatna block, in the presence of karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1162649939954804472006-11-04T06:18:00.000-08:002006-11-04T06:19:00.803-08:00Revisions Likely in Birth Certificate PolicySpurred by a 2002 city law forbidding discrimination based on gender identity and expression and reform sought by gender rights advocates, the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is considering an amendment to the policy governing changes to a birth certificate, making it possible for transgendered people born in New York to alter the gender karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1162564595931523422006-11-03T06:35:00.000-08:002006-11-03T06:36:36.653-08:00Transsexual prepares lawsuit against Thai armyBangkok- A Thai transsexual man is preparing to file a lawsuit against the army for rejecting him for conscription on the grounds of his "mental disorder," news reports said Thursday. Samart Meehcharoen, 22, said that the army's rejection statement, issued two years ago, had deprived him of career opportunities, as a private firm had recently turned karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1162308188214109262006-10-31T07:22:00.000-08:002006-10-31T07:23:26.410-08:00Sex Change Doctor Dead At 82(AP) Dr. Stanley Biber, a small-town physician who said he performed more than 4,500 sex change operations in his career, has died, a friend and funeral home owner said. He was 82. Biber died in Pueblo, where he had been hospitalized for complications from pneumonia. The cause of death was not announced Tuesday. "We've lost a tremendous friend in our community," said karinoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1162145702570230842006-10-29T10:14:00.000-08:002006-10-29T10:15:27.760-08:00NYPD may have violated transgender woman's rightsAmnesty International is urging the New York City Police Department to investigate allegations that its officers violated the human rights of Christina Sforza, a transgender woman involved in a July 10 altercation at a McDonalds restaurant in Manhattan, according to an October 27 press release sent by the human rights watchdog group. Sforza karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1161956637161398512006-10-27T06:43:00.000-07:002006-10-27T06:51:33.156-07:00Is there anything gay about them?Vikram Seth might have signed the letter for decriminalisation of homosexual act. But the ground reality is still very different. Recently, Baguiati residents Nisha Singh and Nisha Upadhyay committed suicide. The reason was the refusal of society to accept their same-sex love. In the past two years, this is the fourth such incident in the state where couples havekarinoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1161879913426045562006-10-26T09:24:00.000-07:002006-10-26T09:25:22.690-07:00Activists seeks UN transgender supportA Ugandan gay activist has called on the United Nations to protect transgender people in Africa. Juliet Victor Mukasa, chairperson of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), revealed her experiences as a transgender in Africa when addressing the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva this week. She described incidents of rape, being stripped in karinoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1161806609426088042006-10-25T13:02:00.000-07:002006-10-25T13:03:30.000-07:00N.J. Supreme Court rules same-sex couples must receive identical rights TRENTON, N.J. -- Same-sex couples must receive the same rights as married couples, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled today.In a 4-3 decision, the court found that "denying committed same-sex couples the financial and social benefits and privileges given to their married heterosexual counterparts bears no substantial karinoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1161791216301235812006-10-25T08:45:00.000-07:002006-10-25T08:46:57.340-07:00Important transgender rights victory in New York City In a small but significant victory for transgender rights, the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund announced Monday that it has reached an agreement with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City that allows people to use MTA public restrooms in accordance with their gender expression.The agreement arose from a karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1161443987807159052006-10-21T08:18:00.000-07:002006-10-21T08:19:48.893-07:00Vietnamese censors OK first transsexual singer's musical debutHanoi- Communist Vietnam's conservative Ministry of Culture has approved release of the debut music CD by the country's first transsexual singing star, an official said Friday. Cindy Thai Tai's release Sentiments features a selection of Vietnamese standards, including such love songs as Sweet Pain. Reached by telephone Friday, the karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1161278349712208502006-10-19T10:17:00.000-07:002006-10-19T10:19:30.973-07:00Dutch grant special asylum rights to gay IraniansAMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch government has granted special asylum rights to Iranian homosexuals, despite earlier comments by Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk who said they were safe so long as they were discrete. Verdonk, whose tough stance on immigration and asylum has been condemned by many on the left, based her decision on an unpublished karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1161189614670214152006-10-18T09:38:00.000-07:002006-10-18T09:40:15.470-07:00Lithuania sued over transsexualThe 28-year-old man, identified only as Mr L, was born and registered as female, but since 1998 has undergone hormone treatment and breast removal.His doctors say they will complete the operation only when legal conditions are established.The case at the European Court of Human Rights claims his rights were violated.His lawyers said his rights had been breached on karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1161099624341894542006-10-17T08:39:00.000-07:002006-10-17T08:40:24.726-07:00Hong Kong drops challenge against gay sex lawHong Kong's government on Monday caved in to a challenge against its gay sex laws, effectively lowering the homosexual age of consent from 21 to 16. The decision followed a shaming government defeat in the courts when it vainly appealed against a judicial review's findings that the law governing the age of gay consent was unconstitutional. In a short karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1160847547261211912006-10-14T10:38:00.000-07:002006-10-14T10:39:07.776-07:00Mozambique: Movement for Gay Rights to Be Announced SoonAt the end, on Friday night, of the first ever Mozambican seminar on gay rights, organised by the Human Rights League (LDH), gay activist Danilo de Sousa told AIM that the movement will probably be launched within the next couple of weeks.But as yet it has no name. There is a dispute between those who want to affirm their gay identity (whichkarinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1160753575010564872006-10-13T08:32:00.000-07:002006-10-13T08:32:55.603-07:00Transsexual Allowed To Revive Multi-Million Dollar Discrimination Suit Against Bank (London) A transsexual man who alleges he was fired by multi-national banking company HSBC because of his corrected gender will be allowed to appeal a labor tribunal ruling that dismissed most of his case. Peter Lewis is seeking $9 million in damages. It is the biggest case of its kind since Britain banned karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1160669725607088612006-10-12T09:14:00.000-07:002006-10-12T09:15:26.446-07:00Long Beach City Council approves gay marriage resolutionLONG BEACH, Calif. The Long Beach City Council has unanimously approved a resolution supporting gay marriage. ****Critics slam UM curator over remark The University of Missouri-St. Louis Faculty Senate has criticized Board of Curators member David Wasinger for making "homophobic comments" during a board meeting last week in Kansas karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1160492842985187772006-10-10T08:06:00.000-07:002006-10-10T08:07:23.540-07:00Nepal urged to curb harassment of gaysNEW DELHI, Sept 29 - Delhi Declaration on Men having Sex with Men (MSM) produced by International Consultation on MSM called upon governments, international donors, multilateral institutions and civil society for urgent and coordinated responses to deal with HIV epidemics among MSM and transgender persons that is rapidly increasing in the region."Nepal will karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1160321654449670562006-10-08T08:30:00.000-07:002006-10-08T08:34:15.323-07:00Gay Teacher 'Outs' Himself, And Parents Are Upset Minneapolis Several parents of students at a downtown Minneapolis school are protesting a second-grade teacher's decision to tell his class he's gay as part of a discussion of diversity, without first notifying them. The parents and about a dozen supporters held a protest Friday at the Interdisciplinary Downtown School, which serves students fromkarinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1160237722542633792006-10-07T09:13:00.000-07:002006-10-07T09:15:23.500-07:00Gay Marriage Headed to State Supreme Court- The city of San Francisco is promising a swift appeal following the State Court of Appeal ruling against gay marriage. City attorney Dennis Herrera told KCBS’ Tim Ryan that the ruling ignores basic constitutional rights. "If other courts had followed this line of reasoning, schools would still be segregated, women would not have been able to enter the karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1159975145358189862006-10-04T08:15:00.000-07:002006-10-04T08:19:06.283-07:00Transgender woman hopes suit against former employer will help othersHer journey to her authentic self took a long and circuitous route that was neither pretty nor smooth.Four days after Christmas 2003, she crashed the Dodge Intrepid she was driving into the rear of a Ford Explorer parked on North Main Street in downtown Washington, Pa.Stressed and depressed, she'd fallen asleep at the wheel in akarinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1159892501894089862006-10-03T09:21:00.000-07:002006-10-03T09:21:42.890-07:00Gonzalez "Gay-Panic" Defense FailsA jury reached a verdict today, in the case of a Fresno man charged with first-degree murder. 24 year old Jesse Gonzalez used what some called a "gay-panic defense".Gonzalez admits he stabbed 37 year old Larry Trevino to death in 2003. But, did so only because he was trying to resist Trevino's sexual advances.The jury rejected that defense, finding Gonzales karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1159798437363221232006-10-02T07:11:00.000-07:002006-10-02T08:40:58.800-07:00Arnold signs "gay panic" bill, vetoes bully banCalifornia Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger continued sending mixed messages to LGBT Californians when he signed into law three gay-positive bills but vetoed another.On Thursday, the Republican governor signed into law a bill that would make it more difficult for defendants to use the "gay panic" defense. The brutal 2002 murder of transgender teen Gwen karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1159651807441007532006-09-30T14:29:00.000-07:002006-09-30T16:43:16.910-07:00Transgender substitute teacher hired; no audience commentLITTLE EGG HARBOR — There was no public outcry this time.Lily McBeth was one of several substitute teachers the Pinelands Regional Board of Education voted to hire Thursday night. None of the handful of local residents who attended the meeting spoke on the hiring of the 72-year-old transgender Little Egg Harbor woman.It was a marked karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1159449648567940582006-09-28T06:19:00.000-07:002006-09-28T06:20:49.470-07:00UA sets bar for transgender access rightsThe UA allows transgendered people to use the restrooms with which they best identify, making it one of the most inclusive campuses in the country, a UA official said.According to a policy issued by the Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Office in June, the UA "allows individuals to use the restroom that corresponds to their gender identity." The "karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1159029143974473482006-09-23T09:31:00.000-07:002006-09-23T09:32:25.170-07:00The quiet warrior Activist Sir Jesse of Decatur speaks at trans conference“Doesn’t it take a man to get hit in the head, skull cracked, and still come back to march fifty-four miles for freedom?” the teacher asks his class of alternative school students in Decatur. The man the teacher references is U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who was a pioneer of the black civil rights movement alongside Dr. karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1158936415135586722006-09-22T07:43:00.000-07:002006-09-22T07:47:11.750-07:00Witness gives first testimony in gay pride attack hearing SAN DIEGO – A man who attended July's gay pride festival testified Thursday he was hit twice with a baseball bat by a member of a group that attacked two other men in Balboa Park while using a gay epithet.Paul Mullins, 34, who moved to San Diego the day before, said he followed the attackers for more than 10 minutes toward the festival karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1158855314565173912006-09-21T09:14:00.000-07:002006-09-21T09:15:16.166-07:00Conservative Anglican bishops to sign anti-gay pactKIGALI (Reuters) - Conservative Anglican bishops largely drawn from developing countries are expected to agree on a pact condemning the ordination of gay clergy, Nigeria's archbishop said on Wednesday.The agreement, expected to be signed later this week by clerics from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia meeting in Rwanda, is likely karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1158760391478627672006-09-20T06:49:00.000-07:002006-09-20T06:53:12.216-07:00What’s law got to do with it?The implications of decriminalising same-sex love transcend the immediate concerns of gay people The campaign to decriminalise same-sex relations has received high visibility with the release of writer Vikram Seth’s public letter demanding a “reading down” of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. Co-signed by prominent citizens, the letter demands the reading-down ofkarinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1158502719684882582006-09-17T07:16:00.000-07:002006-09-17T07:19:00.273-07:00Nepal government begins crackdown on gaysKathmandu - Nepal’s vulnerable gay community, who had taken part in the popular protests against King Gyanendra’s regime, are now being targeted by the new ‘democratic’ government they supported to power, a gay rights organisation said.The new government of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, that was sworn in May and pledged to uphold democracy and karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1158421126912553722006-09-16T08:37:00.000-07:002006-09-16T08:38:48.713-07:00Group raises funds to pass gay rights ordinanceFERNDALE -- A few thousand dollars could help decide the fate of a Ferndale ordinance that would stop discrimination based on sexual orientation, a gay rights advocacy group said.In a letter dated Sept. 1, the Ferndale Alliance Valuing Our Residents asked citizens to vote, volunteer and send donations. "Let's put Ferndale on the map once again, karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1158330668574034962006-09-15T07:28:00.000-07:002006-09-15T07:31:09.420-07:00Transgender Woman Wins Discrimination RulingDENVER -- The Colorado Civil Rights Division has ruled that the firing of a transgender woman was the result of illegal sex discrimination, according to lawyers representing her.The case involved Danielle M. Cornwell of Arvada, Colo., and her employment with Intermountain Testing Company.According to attorney Mari Newman, Cornwell was known most of her karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1158157709489905632006-09-13T07:27:00.000-07:002006-09-13T07:28:30.496-07:00Gay activists arrested at Marine recruiting office Police took three people into custody after they refused to leave a U.S. Marine Corps recruiting office in Shreveport, La., on Tuesday during a protest of the military's ban on openly gay recruits. The Virginia-based gay rights organization Soulforce said it was staging such protests in 30 cities around the nation in the coming weeks and months. karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1158071987307815052006-09-12T07:38:00.000-07:002006-09-12T07:39:51.116-07:00California Med School Criticized for Banning Gay Student Groups The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Monday publicly decried the decision of the Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine, a private medical school in Vallejo, CA, to ban a student group that focuses on the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) patients and students.In 2002, students at the school formedkarinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1157899165829224362006-09-10T07:38:00.000-07:002006-09-10T07:39:30.543-07:00Reflections on "He That Once Seemed Invisible" by Tobias Novak The “heartsong” in this poem is my transness, that part of my being where my sex/gender and body/mind do not match. What do I mean by transness? The answer is twofold. First, I mean transsexual, or, the fact that my body and brain chemistry feel completely wrong. My transsexuality is the feeling that I was “born in the karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1157812481363811382006-09-09T07:34:00.000-07:002006-09-09T07:34:42.893-07:00Ugandan 'gay' name list condemnedA Ugandan newspaper's decision to publish the names of alleged homosexual men is a "chilling development", New York-based Human Rights Watch says.Last month the Red Pepper paper printed 45 first names and professions or areas of work of alleged homosexual men.HRW says the move could foreshadow a government crackdown in the country, where homosexuality is illegal. karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1157673877765857852006-09-07T17:04:00.000-07:002006-09-07T17:04:38.526-07:00Applications for Sex Change RisingA growing number of transsexuals are applying to courts for a gender change on their family registration records, following the Supreme Court’s legal recognition of sex changes in June.According to the Supreme Court yesterday, 17 transsexuals have applied to local courts nationwide to change their genders registered in “hojok,” or family registration records, forkarinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1157555681202571392006-09-06T08:14:00.000-07:002006-09-06T08:14:42.206-07:00South African bank assists on transgender IDs South Africa's First National Bank has grown the favourite of the nation's small transgender minority after it helped out a Burundian female male-born refugee getting a bank account. As a transgender refugee in South Africa, identity problems may often be a big hurdle to overcome.Any person who wants to open a bank account needs to comply with South karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1157463761072504482006-09-05T06:42:00.000-07:002006-09-05T06:42:41.970-07:00CALL FOR ACTION (from Lgbt India)(PLease cross post this to all the relevent lists)This is a plea for direct mobilisation. This morning I learnt that the distributors for Amol Palekar's latest film, The Quest, have withdrawn after they agreed to release the film. But they suddenly withdrew after the preview revealed it as an openly gay film.This is the third in the triology of films on sexuality karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1157376966590788742006-09-04T06:35:00.000-07:002006-09-04T06:36:07.613-07:00Texas police officer convicted of sexually assaulting transsexual A San Antonio police officer was convicted Wednesday of violating the civil rights of a transsexual who said the officer raped and beat her during a traffic stop. The jury found that Officer Dean Gutierrez's conduct violated Gabriel Bernal's rights through aggravated sexual assault. A sentencing hearing is set for December 1. The karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1157293240595309112006-09-03T07:20:00.000-07:002006-09-03T07:20:41.983-07:00Hoping Md. Is 'Ready for a Person Like Me'House Candidate Would Be State's 1st Transgender LawmakerDana Beyer rapped on a door at the end of a leafy Silver Spring cul-de-sac. A woman answered. She listened to the candidate's spiel, sought her views on abortion rights (for) and growth (against) and found little on which the two did not agree."It's good to see more women running," she told the karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1157149188426466662006-09-01T15:19:00.000-07:002006-09-01T15:19:52.140-07:00Arson Suspected In Fatal Gay Sauna Fire (London) A woman described as an employee has died in a fire that officials may have been deliberately set at a gay sauna in Leeds, north of London. Police said Friday that the Spartan Matalk Sauna had been targeted in a previous arson attack. The most recent fire appears to have begun in pieces of wood placed outside the main door. Investigators said therekarinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1157122628050762802006-09-01T07:56:00.000-07:002006-09-01T07:57:08.446-07:00Norwegian transsexual seeks two passports A Norwegian transsexual has sought the help of Norway’s antidiscrimination office to assist her in obtaining two passports. The male-to-female transsexual, who prefers to remain anonymous, wants to travel as either a man or a woman and claims that traveling as a woman with a passport displaying a man’s face is a difficult task since the 9/11 terrorist karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1157047432769606272006-08-31T11:03:00.000-07:002006-08-31T11:15:15.836-07:00Nepal Interim Constitution, Will PLWHA, and other vulnerable communiteis have rights?Dear AllThe Nepal's interim constitution have failed to ensure the rights of sexual minorities, gender minorities, PLWHA and Sex workers and provide any protection despite of our continuous lobbying and providing written recommendation to the drafting committee. Now we its time we need to do more and we call for karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1156774737339470152006-08-28T07:18:00.000-07:002006-08-28T07:18:58.306-07:00Campaigning for the rights of people with HIV/AIDS!Please sign on and try to get as many people possible to sign on to the email petition at www.tac.org.za , we must support our South African friends.karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1156691246360807712006-08-27T08:07:00.000-07:002006-08-27T08:07:34.636-07:00San Antonio officer on trial in rape of transsexualSAN ANTONIO (AP) - A police officer accused of raping and beating a transsexual in his squad car is on trial in a federal court.Forty-six-year-old Dean Gutierrez is charged with depriving a person's civil rights by committing aggravated sexual abuse while on duty. If convicted, Gutierrez faces up to life in prison.The accuser, 23-year-old Gabrielkarinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1156602164046197712006-08-26T07:21:00.000-07:002006-08-26T07:22:45.990-07:00Kodak updates health benefits for transgender employees in transitionKodak Worldwide Benefits has updated health plan coverage to include procedures, services, and supplies for sex transformation (gender reassignment). The updated plan coverage applies to expenses for sex transformation procedures, services and supplies (including therapy, sex hormones and transsexual surgery) that are provided karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1156511272215712482006-08-25T06:07:00.000-07:002006-08-25T16:34:12.833-07:00Transsexual not allowed to compete for Miss Shenzhen titleLi Guohua, a transsexual from Anhua County, Hunan Province, was refused entrance to the Miss Shenzhen competition by the organizing committee, which cited age and certain restrictions as reasons, according to the Southern Metropolitan News on August 25.Li, realized his dream of turning into a woman at the age of 30 in August.TAccording to karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1156429520703751932006-08-24T07:22:00.000-07:002006-08-24T07:25:21.326-07:00(from -gblt India) - First ever public gay wedding in NepalTwo homosexual males have dared to challenge the culture, tradition, family values and Constitution of Nepal for the sake of their love. Anil Mahaju and Diya Kashyap (names changed) will "tie their knot" on Saturday, 26th August 2006, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Anil and Diya have been in a relationship for about a year and have now decided to karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1156344757476395342006-08-23T07:52:00.000-07:002006-08-23T07:52:41.270-07:00Health club harasses transwomanNatasha Lee West, a transgender woman, was a member of the Bally Total Fitness club in Worcester for one year in what she calls “male mode” before deciding to take the step to present herself as female at the gym last June. For the past three years she has lived as female everywhere except for on the job and at the gym, but after finalizing her name change, getting karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1156258609755936212006-08-22T07:56:00.000-07:002006-08-22T07:56:50.393-07:00US Transsexual Ordered From Britain by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff(London) A transsexual who filed the biggest discrimination suit brought by a trans person in the UK has been ordered out of the country.Jessica Bussert had been working for Hitachi Data Systems in London. In May, she filed the million dollar lawsuit against the company after being fired and now the Home Office says that because karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1155825572452985912006-08-17T07:38:00.000-07:002006-08-17T07:39:32.873-07:00S.C. School Board Bans Gay Clubs (Salisbury, North Carolina) Without discussion the Rowan-Salisbury School System has banned the formation of a Gay Straight Alliance at South Rowan High School.The Board of Education voted unanimously to bar what it called sex-based clubs at the school and to declare the Alliance fit that criterion.The move followed a April decision by the board to block the club karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1155696515514137222006-08-15T19:47:00.000-07:002006-08-15T19:48:36.063-07:00Brutal Gay Bashing Sparked By Suspected Butt Touch Documents Show (Santa Fe, New Mexico) The kidnapping and repeated beating of a gay Santa Fe man to "scare him straight" was sparked by the belief he had touched the behind of one of the accused assailants court documents show.William York, 21, Leroy Segura, 19, and two minors - a boy and a girl - are charged with kidnapping, aggravated battery karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1155655077154935112006-08-15T08:16:00.000-07:002006-08-15T08:17:57.663-07:00Police, marchers 'surprised' by violence at Estonian gay paradeTallinn - A violent attack on a gay-pride parade in the Estonian capital Tallinn took police and organizers by surprise, parade organizers said on Monday.'The police acted appropriately, but you can't do much with two police against thirty attackers. We're surprised and ashamed how violent the attack was,' parade spokeswoman Maali karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1155391723931798842006-08-12T07:06:00.000-07:002006-08-12T07:08:44.736-07:00NGLTF: RIGHT-WING RHETORIC FUELS ANTI-GAY VIOLENCE OIA Newsdesk WASHINGTON - Detectives in San Diego arrested a 24-year-old man and two teenage boys in connection with Saturday's attacks on six men outside the LGBT pride festival in San Diego`s Balboa Park. According to media reports, the suspects will face charges of attempted murder with a hate crime enhancement and assault with a deadly karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1155304564651258032006-08-11T06:55:00.000-07:002006-08-11T06:56:05.083-07:00OKLAHOMA TO GET FIRST OPENLY GAY LEGISLATOR OKLAHOMA CITY - Al McAffrey is poised to become the first openly gay member of the Oklahoma state legislature after winning his Democratic primary to represent District 88 in the Oklahoma State House. He faces no Republican opposition in the general election in November.***More arrests in New Mexico gay bashing More arrests have been made in the Julykarinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1155219773277687462006-08-10T07:21:00.000-07:002006-08-10T07:22:54.420-07:00Tasmanian transsexual cleared to play in women’s league A 47-year-old post-operative transsexual will be able to continue her life-long love of playing soccer with the announcement by Soccer Tasmania that she will be able to compete in the women’s league. As Martin Delaney, she loved the beautiful game and competed in the male league for over 25 years. After the operation, Martine was shy karinoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1155175938118646122006-08-09T19:10:00.000-07:002006-08-09T19:12:20.486-07:00Gay Iraqis Set to Take Part in UK Pride GLOUCESTER, August 9, 2006 – Three gay Iraqis are set to join the Gloucestershire Rainbow Day march through Gloucester city centre on Saturday (August 12) days after More4 Television News and the Observer reported on gays were the “new target” for death squads in Iraq.Ali Hili, who co-ordinates Iraqi LGBT – a gay help and information group in Baghdad and karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1154871117080535092006-08-06T06:31:00.000-07:002006-08-06T06:31:57.686-07:00Backward logic in the courtsNOW I got it. After hours spent poring over Washington state's Supreme Court decision upholding the ban on same-sex marriage, I've finally figured it out. The court wasn't just ruling against same-sex marriage. It was ruling in favor of ``procreationist marriage." This is the heart of the opinion written by Justice Barbara Madsen: ``Limiting marriage to opposite-sex karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1154606192939587102006-08-03T04:56:00.000-07:002006-08-03T04:56:33.540-07:00From "Intersex" to "DSD": Toward a Queer Disability Politics of Genderby Emi Koyama, Intersex InitiativeBelow is the keynote speech presented at Translating Identity conference held at University of Vermont in February 2006.Today I'd like to talk about the new term DSD, or disorders of sex differentiation and development, that is now being promoted as the replacement for the word "intersex." karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1154227336902768132006-07-29T19:39:00.000-07:002006-07-29T21:44:25.583-07:00Louise Arbour: keynote address - MONTRÉAL, 26 JUILLET 2006 ****Judge orders woman to stop making anti-gay commentsPROVIDENCE, R.I. --A judge ordered a Warren woman to stop directing anti-gay slurs at her homosexual neighbor, saying the insults amounted to "hateful conduct" and interfered with the man's right to live in peace.The attorney general's newly formed civil rights advocate's office sued karinoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1153963618334291212006-07-26T18:26:00.000-07:002006-07-26T22:48:48.436-07:00US court backs gay marriage banThe court backed the Defense of Marriage Act, which was passed in the state eight years ago to limit marriage to heterosexual couples.Nineteen same-sex couples had challenged the law, but the court ruled against them by five votes to four.The judges stressed that they were not ruling on the rights or wrongs of gay marriage itself, but only on whether the current lawkarinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1153885416642237492006-07-25T20:42:00.000-07:002006-07-25T20:43:37.153-07:00McKellen breaks Pentagon gay policyGay actor Sir Ian McKellen has managed to overrule the Pentagon’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy after being made am honorary lieutenant colonel of the national guard. US military policy dictates that lesbian and gay recruits must keep their sexuality hidden, but the openly gay star was recently given the honour on a trip to Atlanta, Georgia. Sir Ian, a patron karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1153790659125571982006-07-24T18:22:00.000-07:002006-07-24T18:24:19.530-07:00Protest same-sex marriage ban on August 13Sydney - People in eight cities and towns across Australia are taking action to protest against the federal ban on same-sex marriage, which was passed with Coalition and Labor party support on August 13, 2004.The Australian government was the first in the world to ban same-sex marriage, setting the international benchmark for homophobic relationship karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1153727640943787752006-07-24T00:53:00.000-07:002006-07-24T00:58:59.513-07:00Chevalier d'Eon(Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée Éon de Beaumont)(October 5, 1728 - May 21, 1810) - Here and here. karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1153718191548753492006-07-23T22:08:00.000-07:002006-07-24T00:55:35.750-07:00Jamaican lesbians found deadThe bodies of two Jamaican women, who were allegedly having a lesbian relationship, were found in a ditch last week. The Jamaica Star described it a "murder of passion" and suggested that one of their ex-boyfriends may have been unhappy with the relationship. The bodies of 20-year-old Candice Williams and Phoebe Myrie, 22, were found dumped in a pit at a house theykarinoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1153545108651819192006-07-21T22:10:00.000-07:002006-07-21T22:11:49.050-07:00Christine Jorgensen (May 30, 1926 – May 3, 1989), here, here, and here. karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1153543961100383332006-07-21T21:49:00.000-07:002006-07-21T21:52:42.386-07:00Gay and Christian police in rowThe row between the Gay Police Association and the Christian Police Association has been simmering for a while.A newspaper advertisement taken out by the GPA coincided with London's Europride event a fortnight ago.The ad featured a Bible next to a pool of blood under the heading "in the name of the father", and claimed that religion was the sole or primary karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1153361131118708422006-07-19T19:02:00.000-07:002006-07-19T19:05:32.690-07:00[LGBTNepal] Harassment and Violence by Security (Police) Personnel in Pokhara, Nepal Date: 10th July 2006Victims: Namoona and BindhyiaPlace: Magic Club, Lakeside, PokharaDetails:Security Personnel's harassment and violence against Metis (effeminate males) has increased in Pokhara City. On 10th July 2006, two Mettis Bindhyia and Namoona (member of Blue Diamond Society, Pokhara city, Nepal) were karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1153274258549784972006-07-18T18:56:00.000-07:002006-07-21T19:12:12.186-07:00Vietnam to recognise transsexual plight Transsexuals are to be allowed sex change operations in Vietnam. A health ministry official in the country announced today that legislation will be prepared for a gender transition law which would allow a transgender person to become the right gender after medical and psychological tests. Nguyen Huy Quang told the Agence France Presse news agency, "As karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1152954825826699792006-07-15T02:13:00.000-07:002006-07-15T02:14:44.990-07:00Transgender policy to be testedMIAMI - Few will know this genetic truth, because the 5-year-old's parents and school administrators have agreed that it's in his best interest to blend in as a female.Mental health professionals have diagnosed Pat - not his real name - with gender dysphoria, a condition in which a person believes that he or she is the opposite gender. After two years of examinationkarinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1152918036404246352006-07-14T15:59:00.000-07:002006-07-14T18:57:15.483-07:00First Transgender Association Established in AfricaGender DynamiX is an organisation that works towards a world in which each person has the freedom to express their own gender - whether it corresponds to their born sex or not. Explains Robert Hamblin, Vice-Chairperson of the Management Committee: "Gender DynamiX is an organisation whose time has come - we are here to support transgendered peoplekarinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1151634223966539912006-06-29T19:22:00.000-07:002006-06-29T19:23:44.843-07:00Arkansas Court OKs Gay Foster ParentsAP) The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that gays can qualify as foster parents and that barring them from parenting foster children was based on one group's view of morality. In a unanimous ruling upholding a lower court decision that a state ban was unconstitutional, the high court said that no connection exists between a foster child's well-being karinoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1151467557276052702006-06-27T21:05:00.000-07:002006-06-27T22:59:39.766-07:00Transgender wedding not on the ballot MONTGOMERY — On the same day Alabama voters passed an amendment banning same-sex marriage, a transgender woman and her female partner tied the knot legally in Chilton County — but only after being denied a marriage ceremony by a probate judge in another Alabama county."He said he only believed in marriage between a man and a woman," said Janus Carson, who waskarinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1150714089607927772006-06-19T03:47:00.000-07:002006-06-19T03:48:10.740-07:00São Paulo Gay Pride draws 2.4 million More than 2 million gays and their supporters waving rainbow flags and dressed in lavish Carnaval costumes paraded June 17 to celebrate Gay Pride and demand an end to homophobia.The 10th annual São Paulo Gay Pride Parade saw go-go boys and drag queens dancing on the roofs of sound trucks blasting music as they rolled down the skyscraper-lined Avenida Paulistakarinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1150607609955012412006-06-17T22:11:00.000-07:002006-06-17T22:13:30.246-07:00Church agrees to bless gay partnershipsA Swiss offshoot of the Roman Catholic Church is to become the country's first officially recognised church to bless same-sex couples on a nationwide basis.The move has been welcomed by the gay rights group, Pink Cross, but the Roman Catholic Bishops Conference is questioning whether it is merely a publicity stunt to attract new members. The Old Catholic karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1150452054833955192006-06-16T02:58:00.000-07:002006-06-16T03:00:58.783-07:00Hawaii To Pay $625,000 To Mistreated Gay Teens In Prison System (Honolulu, Hawaii) In the first case in the country to specifically address the treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth in juvenile facilities, the state of Hawaii will by pay $625,000 to end a federal lawsuit by the ACLU on behalf of three LGBT young people.The agreement was announced Thursday by the ACLU.In karinoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1150094594295744942006-06-11T23:41:00.000-07:002006-06-11T23:43:14.950-07:00(It seems as if reporters are endlessly stupid when it comes to gender)Guard moved after fondling chargeA correction officer at the prison hospital housing convicted killer Robert Kosilek was reassigned yesterday after the transvestite inmate accused the guard of fondling his (sic) breasts, the Herald has learned. The correction officer, Mike Politano, was moved from the prison hospital to karinoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1149822897400646742006-06-08T20:14:00.000-07:002006-06-08T20:15:00.423-07:00HELLO, CRUEL WORLD LITE : BETA 1.0.1You’re better off alive, no matter how messed up you think you might be right now. And you’re better off alive no matter how mean someone is being to you. You are simply better off alive than dead—no matter who or what you are, no matter who or what you love, and no matter what you do. Just don’t be mean. Being mean never works. Never. So that’s the only rule Ikarinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1149755877122423082006-06-08T01:36:00.000-07:002006-06-08T01:37:57.816-07:00Senate marriage ban amendment rejectedWashington -- The Senate easily defeated for the second time in two years a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, a measure that opponents dismissed as an attempt by Republicans to excite conservatives increasingly disenchanted with President Bush and the GOP-led Congress.Supporters countered that few issues are more urgent than protecting the bedrock karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1149631757552127612006-06-06T15:06:00.000-07:002006-06-07T02:31:04.930-07:00National Security Agency Will"Neither Confirm Nor Deny" Surveillance of LGBT Community"2006 is the new 1984," says SLDN Washington, DC - In a June 5 letter to counsel for Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), the National Security Agency (NSA) says it will "neither confirm nor deny the existence or non-existence" of information that may have been obtained through agency surveillance of thekarinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1149592958044218372006-06-06T04:06:00.000-07:002006-06-06T04:22:40.323-07:00Poland: Official Homophobia Threatens Basic Freedoms(New York, June 5, 2006) - Recent threats by Polish officials against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists and organizations threaten everyone's basic freedoms, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Prime Minister Kasimierz Marcinkiewicz. Poland's State Prosecutor has reportedly instructed local prosecutors to launch karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1149498923242288962006-06-05T02:14:00.000-07:002006-06-05T02:15:24.216-07:00Violence Mars Romanian Gay MarchPolice in Romania's capital Bucharest has made dozens of arrests during a gay rights march on Sunday.The homosexuals were attacked by violent protesters, and police had to use teargas to hold the latter at bay, media report.People were throwing eggs, stones and plastic bottles at the gay campaigners, according to reports.According to the AP, gay people from the UK,karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1149332782617416292006-06-03T04:05:00.000-07:002006-06-03T04:06:23.416-07:00Man not guilty of transsexual's rapeA BALLARAT jury has found a 31-year-old man not guilty of raping a transsexual at her home in country Victoria in 2003.The five-man, seven-woman jury announced its decision yesterday following a week-long trial at the County Court after the man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, contested the charge. Jury members spent between two and three hours karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1149212575253344542006-06-01T18:42:00.000-07:002006-06-01T18:42:58.593-07:00Buddha govt plays morality policeKolkata, May 30:Donning the role of the morality police, the Left Front Government has ordered that the Buladi AIDS awareness campaign — which has been running since December 2004 — be changed to omit the use of ‘‘offending’’ words and phrases.Besides being successful, the campaign also involved government funds of over Rs 10 crore. Its reach was widespread — karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1149067916658986222006-05-31T02:30:00.000-07:002006-05-31T02:31:56.790-07:00Transsexual Files $4.5-Million Discrimination Suit On Two Continents (London) An American transsexual working in the UK has filed discrimination suits against Hitachi Data Systems in both British and US courts.When Jessica Bussert, 41, began transitioning she, the woman she married while still identifying as male and their two children, transferred from Hitachi in Indiana to the company's Britishkarinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1149067692821210052006-05-31T02:27:00.000-07:002006-05-31T02:28:13.263-07:00Transsexual Files $4.5-Million Discrimination Suit On Two Continents (London) An American transsexual working in the UK has filed discrimination suits against Hitachi Data Systems in both British and US courts.When Jessica Bussert, 41, began transitioning she, the woman she married while still identifying as male and their two children, transferred from Hitachi in Indiana to the company's Britishkarinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1148983521871502072006-05-30T03:03:00.000-07:002006-05-30T03:05:24.400-07:00Mike vows he'll honor gay marriageMayor Bloomberg landed another left on the right yesterday, coming out strongly in favor of gay marriage - and vowing the city will perform same-sex wedding ceremonies, if allowed.The Republican mayor used his weekly Sunday radio address on Memorial Day weekend to say he is "firmly opposed" to any constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage.President karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1148870602343018132006-05-28T19:42:00.000-07:002006-05-29T04:12:19.363-07:00from:(glbt-india) ARAVAANI [TRANSGENDER] MURDERED AT TIRUCHIRAPALLI, TAMIL NADU.Aravaani [Transgender] Ms. Sudha was murdered at Trichy Hotel last night. It is learned that Sudha, a beautiful young aravaani was taken by a man aged about 30 to the Nathan lodge, opposite to Raja theatre, Madurai Road, Trichy and had sex with her.At the midnight the room was not opened for a long time and the door karinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016269.post-1148784205190050212006-05-27T19:42:00.000-07:002006-05-27T19:43:25.523-07:00MOSCOW POLICE ARREST GAY PRIDE LEADER AND 50-100 OTHERS TODAY AT BANNED MARCH--Gay German MP Volker Beck, Oscar Wilde's Grandson, and Paris Mayor's Rep All Injured (Updated)Moscow's police --1000 of whom were deployed to enforce Mayor Yuri Luzhkov's ban on a Gay Pride March scheduled for today -- have arrested Nicolas Alexeyev, principal organizer of the banned, first-ever Pride March in Russia'skarinoreply@blogger.com0