Some transgender people are forced to pass the holidays alone, shunned by family and friends. And more than one-third of transgender individuals have no home at all.
Joanne Herman | Posted 12.07.2009 | Living
Many have speculated that Mike Penner, the transgender sports writer, de-transitioned his gender because of regret and that regret could have led him to take his life.
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 11.19.2009 | Sports
A South African runner whose gender identity stirred up huge controversy will be permitted to keep her title and prize money. But how do we define what is too male to compete in a women's sport?
Mike Alvear | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Accommodating differences always looks like the few creating a burden on the many, but it always ends up benefiting everyone.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 11.07.2009 | Media
Was it bigotry that defeated gay marriage in Maine and California, or was it ignorance? Films like The Campaign, about the fight for gay rights, require our attention and our support.
Lisa Derrick | Posted 11.05.2009 | Technology
Former Google employee James Bara has filed suit against the search giant, citing sexual and religious discrimination in violation of the US Civil Rights Act.
Posted 10.29.2009 | Entertainment
(UPDATED WITH VIDEO, SCROLL DOWN) Chaz Bono, Cher's son, is in the midst of physically becoming a man. In a two-part interview with Entertainment Ton...
dailypress.com | MELINDA WALDROP | Posted 10.26.2009 | Style
WILLIAMSBURG - History was made without fanfare on Saturday. Jessee Vasold, William and Mary's first transgender homecoming queen, took the field ...
Steven Petrow | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
What does Chaz Bono teach us about transgender folks?
Huffington Post | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment
Liev Schreiber plays a gun-toting transvestite in 'Taking Woodstock,' Ang Lee's latest film, but he's hardly the first actor to take on a gender-bendi...
Wayne Besen | Posted 09.18.2009 | World
It is incomprehensible to waste American lives fighting the Taliban to protect a regime that looks an awful lot like the Taliban. If women are not equal partners, let's pack up and leave.
washingtonpost.com | Lonnae O'Neal Parker | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
By the time we reach the top of the stairs, the sequins are in full effect. The money-taker waves me through with my 15-year-old daughter, Sydney -- ...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.20.2009 | World
A Pakistani Supreme Court ruling has decreed that all members of Pakistan's hijras community should be registered as part of a government survey with ...
The Washington Blade | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
Applicants for Justice Department internships and honors programs may have been rejected based on their membership in LGBT groups during the Bush admi...
Michael DeJong | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living
The modern "Gay Rights Movement" has had and still has racism, classism, misogyny, ageism, and trans-phobia at its core.
Rochelle Lefkowitz | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics
It's June, that month more or less identified with weddings -- and Rainbow Pride -- and we seem to have been busily courting a new generation to embrace gay marriage.
The New York Times | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
Lawyers for President Obama are quietly drafting first-of-their kind guidelines barring workplace discrimination against transgender federal employees...
Michael Rowe | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media
One doesn't need a primer of transgender or transsexual history in order to appreciate the awesome brutality of the KRXQ shock-jocks' diatribe.
Global Post | Patrick Winn | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
PATTAYA, Thailand -- They're known as the "katoey," or transgender people, and they are an important part of Thai culture....
Vicki Iovine | Posted 06.22.2009 | Living
One of the few bright promises sustaining me while trudging through a divorce is Sex With a Stranger. I haven't had it yet, nor do I see any immediate...
John Ridley | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
While the loss of Angie Zapata is tragic, the fact that with due process a trial was held and a conviction obtained speaks to how greatly America is altering its nature with regard to acceptance of transgender individuals.
Abby L. Ferber | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics
If we are serious about protecting people from violence and crime simply because of their group identities, we must also take seriously their right to equality in the home, workplace, and school.
Jim Luce | Posted 04.15.2009 | Politics
Handsome, dedicated, and driven, Micah is the disabled with cerebral palsy, Jewish progressive, openly bisexual, who represents a swath of Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Michael DeJong | Posted 12.19.2008 | Green
Eco-activists Rachael Carson and Henry David Thoreau didn't call for cleaner air and water for gay people - they raised their clarion call to ignite a flame under all people.
Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 10.20.2008 | Style
English professor Joy Ladin, formerly Jay Ladin, makes Yeshiva University the first religiously conservative university in the United States with a transgender faculty member.
Joanne Herman | Posted 12.15.2009 | Living