I am always on high alert this time of year for the  appearance of anger and bigotry.  All the days around April 19th make me a bit nervous.  Maybe this is because I’ve lived a life which has seen the David Koresh debacle, the tragic Oklahoma City bombing, and the horrific scenes of Columbine.  I [...]

Capitol T: Growing a Movement for Transgender Equality, the 5th Annual Transgender Leadership Summit
This is reposted from the website of the Transgender Law Center.
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For the past five years, hundreds of transgender and allied leaders have gathered in California to develop organizational, professional and personal leadership skills to [...]

It’s that time of the year, time to celebrate the second-ever International Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, 2010.  Originating in Michigan last year, Rachel Crandall of Transgender Michigan started a movement by posting the idea on Facebook.  Since then, events have happened all over the world.  According to Crandall, she wanted to show [...]

On January 20th, 2010, the International Olympic Committee officials told the Associated Press that it was recommending the creation of special medical centers that would handle sex-verification cases for Olympic athletes.    They also called for the establishment of guidelines to determine gender eligibility on a case-by-case basis, according to an article in the Los Angeles [...]

Well, we were talking about Billy Tipton the other day and realized that a lot of people had no idea who we were talking about.  So I found this older posting on the web that gives a quick picture of an amazing figure in gender-variant history.  Go to this link for the original post:  http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1060/whats-the-story-on-the-female-jazz-musician-who-lived-as-a-man
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Have you noticed the nifty widget of Coyote Grace, one of our favorite folk bands, over there on the right hand side of this website?  With a rocking redhead and a charmingly handsome transman, this band has been paying dues on the road for awhile.  We had the pleasure of seeing them live at Chico [...]

Taking a break right now from watching people file in to the Grammy’s to catch you guys up on Lucas Silveira, the vocalist and guitarist for the Canadian band the Cliks.  Lucas recently won the Sexiest Canadian  Man award in an online poll for CHART (www.chartattack.com) and is in the middle of major changes in [...]

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AN OUTLAW’S MINI-GUIDE TO SURVIVAL BASICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY BY KATE BORNSTEIN (BASED ON MY SHINY NEW BOOK! )

FEEL FREE TO COPY THIS FOR WHOEVER YOU THINK COULD [...]

Maybe you’ve seen those guides lately that show you how to make healthier choices when eating out.  I know I recently used my iphone app called Eat This Not That during a recent restaurant outing.  I thought it would be interesting to use the same technique with businesses that do or don’t support the GLBT [...]

The movie Avatar has us thinking about creating more community connections with our fellow bloggers out there, so we went looking for a variety of interesting blogs that would appeal to our readers. Here are ten to check out now:
1. Advancing Gender Equality: www.transgenderequality.wordpress.com
This is the blog for the National Center for Transgender [...]