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WATCH: Against Me! Transgender Punk Singer-Guitarist Makes Live Debut

2012-05-29T13:38:00Z

The singer-guitarist of punk band Against Me! made her live debut as Laura Jane Grace in San Diego last week.

Grace, 31, joined the band as Tom Ga...

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Voice To Voice: Writer Whitney Joiner And ACLU's Chris Hampton Discuss LGBT Bullying

2012-05-21T16:45:40Z

Earlier this year Gay Voices launched its Voice To Voice conversation series with a collection of interviews between lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans...

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Warren J. Blumenfeld: LGBTQ Pride: Reflect, Rejoice, & Respond Globally

2012-05-27T20:06:10Z

As the truism advises, "Think globally, and act locally," my hope is that we can join together to create the world as be a place where everyone will celebrate their Pride safely and with integrity in ways that express their truest joys while showing their full humanity, freedom, and liberty.

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Emerson Whitney: Carmen Carrera And Janet Mock On Lorena Escalera, Media Justice And 'Utmost Fabulosity'

2012-05-26T04:01:00Z

A wildly insensitive New York Times article on the life and death of trans artist and drag performer Lorena Escalera flared tensions between the gender-variant community and the paper when it was published as part of the Sunday edition on May 14.

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Kathy Huang: Tales Of The Waria: Inside Indonesia's Third-Gender Community

2012-05-26T01:40:00Z

I had no idea that transgender people could live so openly in Indonesia, a country with the world's largest Muslim population. Like many Americans I had this notion of Islam as being particularly unforgiving toward sexual minorities. How could a community of warias possibly exist?

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Born This Way: Lady Gaga Meets Thai 'Lady Boys'

2012-05-25T09:47:00Z

BANGKOK — Lady Gaga has met Thailand's premier "lady boys" at a Bangkok drag show featuring busty dancers who were not born that way.

Diving in...

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Yana Kamps: Anybody Home?

2012-05-24T13:20:16Z

I've never heard a woman say, "I shouldn't eat those fries they're bad for my inner peace." No guy checking himself out in the mirror ever tells himself, "Your values and morals are looking hot today."

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Mariela Castro Tops U.S. Visit With Transgender Talk

2012-05-23T08:42:31Z

SAN FRANCISCO — The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro is in San Francisco to meet with gay rights activists and to chair a panel at a pres...

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Allison Hope: A Penis And A Dress: Why The Gender Binary Needs To Go Away

2012-05-22T20:26:00Z

Imagine a world where someone with a penis can wear dresses every day if this person desired. Gender-neutral bathrooms and department stores and professional sports become the rule rather than the exception to it. Children can play with whatever toys they prefer.

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Courtney O'Donnell: Why I Did An About-Face And Boarded The Jenna Talackova PR Train

2012-05-22T15:11:00Z

I've now an eye on the big picture: winning the hearts and minds of those not quite on board with trans people. If this involves embracing something seemingly shallow, so be it. My hat goes off to Jenna for opening some doors we couldn't have done easily otherwise.

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Transgender Ladies Of The Night

2012-05-22T14:00:06Z

At first glance, Christer Strömholm's black-and-white photos appear to be tributes to the glamorous altar of Parisian nightlife in the sixties. Brigi...

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Wayne Maines: Age 5 Is Not too Early to Learn Your Child Might Be Transgender

2012-05-22T11:40:57Z

My 4-year-old son looked up at me and said, "Daddy I hate my boy parts. When do they go away?" The look in his eyes was one of sincere, innocent pain.

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CJ Kellman: Genderqueer 17-Year-Old To Facebook: 'I Exist'

2012-05-22T09:19:40Z

At 17 I have a lot to worry about: graduating from high school, keeping in touch with friends, staying out of trouble, dealing with sexual issues, etc. But who thought I would have pressure from Facebook to decide whether I am male or female.

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WATCH: Transgender Soccer Player Defies Prejudice

2012-05-21T17:45:05Z

Miranda Salman was born a man. Today she is one of the stars of an all women soccer team.

As a young boy it was obvious Salman had a talent for so...

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When A 5-Year-Old Girl Wants To Be A Boy

2012-05-20T07:06:38Z

Kathryn wanted pants. And short hair. Then trucks and swords.

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Something To Celebrate: 20 Of The Best LGBT Moments Of The Week May 14 - May 19

2012-05-19T08:55:48Z

With so much hate continually aimed at the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, we like to take a moment every once in a while to highlig...

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Poll Position: Should Groups Like Asexuals And The Polyamorous Be Included Under The Queer Umbrella?

2012-05-18T12:34:34Z

It's Friday and that means we've got another Poll Position topic for you to consider.

Our question this week was inspired by a recent HuffPost Gay ...

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International Day Against Homophobia And Transphobia Honored Around The World

2012-05-17T14:43:00Z

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights advocates in 95 countries around the world are honoring the International Day Against Homophobia ...

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Courtney O'Donnell: Sex-Offender Status Complicates Transgender Woman's Dallas Hospital Bathroom-Usage Citation

2012-05-16T17:26:00Z

If entering a women's restroom at the Parkland Hospital is found to be in compliance with the conditions of her parole and no further charges stem from this incident, then Witherspoon's criminal history should not matter in this incident.

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Wayne Maines: Introducing Our Parents' Generation To Transgender Children Can Be Hard But Rewarding

2012-05-16T11:22:41Z

I waited for the old man to tell me I was nuts. He looked at me and said, "Maybe I am too old to change. Maybe your son and my grandson will be able to make things better."

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Laverne Cox: Lorena Escalera: A Life That Mattered

2012-05-15T17:37:00Z

I don't want to be disrespected and misgendered in my death, as all too often happens to transgender folks in news reports on our deaths. I was reminded of that this weekend when I read the unfortunate New York Times article about the death of Lorena Escalera.

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Catherine Oliver: What Makes A Man?

2012-05-15T16:42:00Z

The FTM (female-to-male) community cannot gloss over the fact that we who are genderqueer and identify as men, dress as men, bind, pack, etc. are not "less-than" because we don't take testosterone. We are not less than any man because of our choice not to have surgery.

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Jack Harrison: Beyond Male And Female: Creativity, Risks, And Resilience Among Genderqueer People In The National Transgender Discrimination Survey

2012-05-14T21:51:00Z

Are you male or female? For many people, answering this question doesn't cause a moment's hesitation. But for genderqueer people, this question isn't so easy to answer, and survey research that offers only two gender options may overlook genderqueer people's experiences altogether.

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Leslie Lagerstrom: It's A Boy!

2012-05-14T17:03:00Z

Society had graciously given us the "tomboy" label to justify our child's behavior, which we gladly used as a wishful excuse. But all too soon it became hard to ignore the earnest pleas for the McDonald's Happy Meal that included the boy's toy, or the innocent requests to wear male clothes.

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Trevor MacDonald: M/Other's Day

2012-05-14T12:33:24Z

To some people it may look like I am terribly mixed up, but in reality, I simply sorted my life out before starting my family.

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