Trans Passions

This year's Census will allow gay and lesbian families to identify themselves--but won't ask if you are gay.

The contest for the mayor's office in Gainesville, Florida is headed for a runoff.

In what's seen as a victory for GLBT equality advocates, disgraced former New York state senator Hiram Monserrate lost his March 16 bid to win a special election that would have returned him to the seat he lost when the state senate voted to expel him.

An emerald hue twinkled in the Big Apple on Wednesday as revelers marked St. Patrick's Day with green T-shirts, green hats and even green beer.

A national report being released Wednesday details the myriad social and financial stumbling blocks that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender senior citizens face and calls on lawmakers to make changes to Social Security and Medicaid to assist this growing population.

Bias Attack: Wielding a pipe, a man allegedly went after two transgender individuals on March 13.

Dublin LGBTQ Pride has today criticised the St Patrick's Day Parade in New York City for its failure to include and allow representatives from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender groups to participate.

A transsexual Finnish pastor, who returned to work four months ago following a sex-change operation, has decided to resign, Finnish media reported Tuesday.

The Metropolitan Police Department arrested a man suspected of assaulting two transgender individuals, also described as members of the Latino LGBT community, shortly following the incident on Saturday, March 13.

Nepal wants to paint Mount Everest pink with a campaign urging gay honeymooners to take a trek through the Himalayas.

Norrie May-Welby, 48, who was born in Paisley a man and had a sex change operation 20 years ago, and now lives in Australia, managed to convince authorities there to create a genderless option on all official documents.

Another swastika has been found on the University of California, Davis campus after recent acts of hate-related vandalism.

When Constance McMillen wanted to bring another girl to prom as her date, and got the American Civil Liberties union involved, the Itawamba County School District not only said no to the Itawamba Agricultural High School student; it said no to all it students by canceling the event outright.

HLN host and The View panelist Joy Behar and actress Cynthia Nixon received the top honors at the Gay an Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Awards handed out March 13 in New York.

On his 75th birthday, Bill Farthing decided to be reborn. In the six years since he'd buried his wife of 45 years, he'd felt as he did long before: Lonesome, different, outcast.