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| Calendar adjusted to GMT/World Time | Saturday, 15 January 2005
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| Show results by: Relevance | Date | News search for "transsexual"
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April Penalty Trial Date Set For Cops' Transsexual Killer (wnbc.com)
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CAMDEN, N.J. -- Jury selection has been scheduled to begin April 4 in a third trial to determine whether a transsexual convicted of killing two law enforcement officers in Haddon Heights a decade ago should be executed.
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| Pub. Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:01:21 GMT |
Transgender transformation (Juneau Empire)
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Almost five years ago, former Perseverance Theatre artistic director Peter DuBois approached Juneau singer-actor Rory Merritt Stitt with the idea of playing Hedwig, the transsexual rock star in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch."
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| Pub. Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:53:01 GMT |
icWales - Welsh theatres ready tostage'Springer' (icWales)
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WELSH theatres have said they are ready to stage controversial opera Jerry Springer after plans were announced for a UK-wide tour of the show.
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| Pub. Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 09:00:28 GMT |
Two gay men and a maybe (Weekend Standard)
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Uptight Singapore is letting its hair down, at least on screen. A government notorious for its conservatism is co-financing a film that deals with a lingering taboo in Singaporean culture - homosexuality.
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| Pub. Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:52:56 GMT |
Columbus Alive (Columbus Alive)
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| Pub. Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:07:15 GMT |
Misdirected (Houston Press)
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Bad Education , the new film by the flamboyant Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, opens on a man sitting at a table, poring over the tabloids for stories of interest. When he finds something he likes, he reads it to his lover: Isn't this an arresting image? Could we generate drama from this?
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| Pub. Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:08:11 GMT |
Critic's corner (Boston Globe)
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Her mother was trying to kill her. So her father killed her mother. Now, her half-sister wants to kill her father for killing their mother. Honestly, even Dr. Freud couldn't have helped the twisted Bristow-Derevko clan. The "Alias" saga picks up tonight at 9 on Channel 5, after last week's bloated two-hour season premiere.
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| Pub. Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 07:48:27 GMT |
Screen queens and dyke dramas S.F. film historian's latest book uses movie posters to shed light on changing mainstream (San Francisco Chronicle)
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San Francisco filmmaker, film archivist and film historian Jenni Olson read Vito Russo's groundbreaking 1981 book, "The Celluloid Closet," when she was a student at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, in the mid- 1980s.
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| Pub. Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:02:41 GMT |
icWales - TV swears by it (icWales)
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Jerry Springer - The Opera has caused controversy since it opened in the West End 2001. Expletive-laden songs in the show include Pregnant By A Transsexual and Here Come The Hookers, sung by a 27-strong chorus.
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| Pub. Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 08:15:16 GMT |
IFI Condemns Passage of SB 3186, 'Gay/Transgender' Bill That Tramples Freedoms of Conscience, Religion and Association (U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News)
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Peter LaBarbera, executive director of the Illinois Family Institute, condemned the passage of SB 3186 by the House and Senate, saying legislators have passed a bill that will trample on the freedoms of others, especially people of faith opposed to homosexuality and gender confusion.
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| Pub. Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:47:37 GMT |
Search: (Waco Tribune-Herald)
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LONDON — Britain's public broadcaster televised "Jerry Springer — The Opera" on Saturday, despite appeals from church groups not to air the expletive-heavy musical.
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| Pub. Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:22:42 GMT |
Critics blast (Miami Herald)
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Britain's public broadcaster televised Jerry Springer The Opera on Saturday, despite appeals from church groups not to air the expletive-heavy musical, reports The Associated Press.
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| Pub. Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 08:35:04 GMT |
STORY (Canada.com)
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LONDON (AP) -- Britain's public broadcaster said Saturday it would press ahead with plans to televise, Jerry Springer -- The Opera, despite receiving a record number of complaints before the expletive heavy musical has even aired.
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| Pub. Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:01:00 GMT |
Good form (Recruiter)
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Talent Recruitment is to launch a scheme that will track candidates sexuality and religious beliefs in an attempt to prevent potential discrimination claims.
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| Pub. Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:03:43 GMT |
People in the news (Pioneer Press)
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(KRT) - A woman who says she is a former girlfriend of KISS rocker Gene Simmons is suing him for slander, saying the bass guitarist made her sound like a ``sex-addicted nymphomaniac'' during a ``rockumentary'' on VH-1 television, reports The Associated Press.
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| Pub. Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:26:03 GMT |
BBC Airs Springer Musical Over Protests (ABC News)
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British Public Television Shows Jerry Springer Musical Despite Complaints About Swear Words
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| Pub. Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 01:57:39 GMT |
Artfully drawn, mysticism and a domestic mess (Boston Globe)
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The Problem With Murmur Lee By Connie May Fowler Doubleday, 224 pp., $21.95 Rockville Pike: A Suburban Comedy of Manners By Susan Coll Simon & Schuster, 319 pp., $23
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| Pub. Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 09:47:21 GMT |
Springer opera includes warning (Canoe)
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LONDON -- Britain's public broadcaster said yesterday it would press ahead with plans to televise Jerry Springer - The Opera, despite receiving a record number of complaints before the expletive heavy musical has even aired.
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| Pub. Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 11:01:03 GMT |
Springer musical slammed but televised (AAP via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News)
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The BBC televised Jerry Springer - The Opera, despite appeals from church groups not to air the expletive-heavy musical.
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| Pub. Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 22:36:20 GMT |
Tanner denied files (NEWS.com.au)
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FORMER police detective Denis Tanner has failed in his legal bid to get copies of the full police files on the unsolved murders of his sister-in-law, Jennifer Tanner, and transsexual prostitute Adele Bailey.
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| Pub. Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 00:03:07 GMT |
| Source: Yahoo News |
| Last updated on: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:50:15 GMT |
| Show results by: Relevance | Date | News search for "transgender"
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Voters Support Legislators Who Oppose Discrimination (Gay Wired)
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(Washington, D.C.) Ninety-four percent of state legislators who opposed discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in 2004 state legislatures were not hurt politically by their votes, according to a new study released this week by the Human Rights Campaign and the Equality Federation.
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| Pub. Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 07:57:20 GMT |
A historic statement of unity (The Advocate)
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An unprecedented 22 national gay, lesbian, transgender, and bisexual groups have gotten together to issue a combined manifesto calling for all GLBT Americans to continue the fight for full equality.
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| Pub. Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 01:39:44 GMT |
High School Honor Student Expelled for Being Gay Receives Point Foundation Scholarship (Gay Wired)
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(Chicago, IL) - The Point Foundation, the first national foundation to support academic achievement in higher education among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth, has awarded an academic honorarium to James Barnett, an 18-year old honor student who was recently expelled from Trinity Christian Academy in Addison, Texas when school administrators discovered he was gay.
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| Pub. Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:57:20 GMT |
What’s Going On Calendar Ongoing events - Scroll down for Calendar (San Francisco Bay View)
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If you are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender experiencing domestic violence or hate violence incidents, call Community United Against Violence on their 24-hour crisisline, 415-333-HELP (4357).
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| Pub. Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:22:37 GMT |
National GLBT rights groups issue historic joint statement (The Advocate)
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An unprecedented joint statement from 22 national lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil rights organizations was released on Wednesday. The statement urged people to get involved, to talk to their families, and to fight for equality in their communities.
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| Pub. Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 03:39:34 GMT |
LGBT Center opens new computer lab (UCLA Daily Bruin)
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In addition to having the largest gay and lesbian library of any college campus in the country, the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center now boasts a state-of-the-art computer lab with the official opening of the David Bohnett CyberCenter on Thursday.
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| Pub. Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:16:31 GMT |
Transgender transformation (Juneau Empire)
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Almost five years ago, former Perseverance Theatre artistic director Peter DuBois approached Juneau singer-actor Rory Merritt Stitt with the idea of playing Hedwig, the transsexual rock star in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch."
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| Pub. Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:53:01 GMT |
Gay community business group is advocated (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
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Tim Talsky and Jim Nowlen are business owners who appreciate the idea of strength in numbers, and that s why they re advocating for a chamber of commerce representing Milwaukee s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
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| Pub. Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 02:29:30 GMT |
Big Show of Fence Mending (Gay City News)
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After a fractious two months of controversy following a hotly contested presidential election, 22 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) groups issued a joint statement on Wednesday, in what moderator Joan Garry, executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, described as an “orchestra of voices” delineating a “message of hope and inspiration” for the gay rights
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| Pub. Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:27:14 GMT |
Staten Island Political Club Debut Dinner (Gay City News)
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Staten Island Stonewall, a new lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Democratic club serving the borough, held its first dinner Saturday, January 8 at Patricio’s Restaurant in Stapleton.
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| Pub. Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:29:40 GMT |
Gayapolis News - Gay Rights Organizations Issue Joint Priorities for Community (Gayapolis)
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In a statement entitled "Civil Rights. Community. Movement.", 22 national lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organizations have laid out priorities for the immediate future.
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| Pub. Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:57:20 GMT |
MTV delays launch of gay TV network (PlanetOut)
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Cable subscribers who have been anticipating the launch of the new gay Logo channel next month are now going to have to wait until the summer, according to an announcement Thursday from MTV Networks.
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| Pub. Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 08:17:41 GMT |
Lawmakers Address Discrimination in Texas Schools (Gay Wired)
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(Austin, Texas) - Against the backdrop of a funding debate on public schools in Texas, Representatives Garnet Coleman (D-Houston), Jessica Farrar (D-Houston), and Rafael Anchia (D-Dallas) filed a bill on Wednesday that could reform Texas schools in another way.
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| Pub. Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:31:17 GMT |
Iowa court hears sides in lesbian divorce suit (Omaha World-Herald)
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DES MOINES (AP) - The chief justice of the Iowa Supreme Court said Friday that a challenge to a state judge's decision to dissolve a lesbian couple's civil union obtained in Vermont raises "very thorny and difficult issues."
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| Pub. Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 06:30:26 GMT |
Survey Finds NY's Largest Firms Are More Sexually Diverse (New York Lawyer)
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Slightly more than 2 percent of the lawyers at 23 of New York City's largest firms identify themselves as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, according to a New York County Lawyers' Association survey.
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| Pub. Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:04:10 GMT |
Massachusetts : Parent Upset Over Mass. School's Pink Triangle Program (The Conservative Voice)
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(AgapePress) - A Massachusetts mother is expressing outrage over what she calls "the promotion of the homosexual agenda" in her local school system.
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| Pub. Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:54:33 GMT |
COMMUNITY DATEBOOK (Anchorage Daily News)
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Whole blood donors are asked to donate at Dimond Center, on the second floor across from the theater, or at Northway Mall near the Carrs entrance, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Wednesday, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday; call 222-5630 for an appointment.
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| Pub. Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:31:52 GMT |
Point Foundation Opens 2005 Application Period and Announces 10 New Scholarships (Gay Wired)
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(Chicago, IL) - The Point Foundation, the first national foundation to support academic achievement in higher education among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth, has opened its 2005 application season by announcing 10 new scholarships.
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| Pub. Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:57:19 GMT |
Political File: State GOP points finger at Latino caucus (The Californian)
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The California Republican Party said this week that the denial of a second term to Reed Hastings on the state's Board of Education was an orchestrated move by the Democratic Latino Caucus.
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| Pub. Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 06:54:38 GMT |
LGBT groups unite, push for civil rights (Planet Out via Yahoo! News)
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SUMMARY: A broad new alliance of the nation's leading LGBT organizations has announced an unprecedented partnership aimed at advancing the fight for civil rights.
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| Pub. Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 01:59:18 GMT |
| Source: Yahoo News |
| Last updated on: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:50:12 GMT |
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