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Old.TheJakartaPost.com - Slamet Susanto, The Jakarta Post, Yogyakarta

Access to prayer, transcendence and feeling closer to God are the religious rights of every human being.

However, in practice, it seems that heterosexuals maintain a monopoly over access to these needs in many places of worship.

But what about people with same-sex orientation, like lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals (LGBT)?

WashingtonBlade.com - Melissa Rothstein & Darby Hickey

D.C. should require the Dept. of Corrections to comply with the Human Rights Act  Read more »

PrideSource.com - by Jessica Carreras

On Sept. 17, TransGender Michigan Executive Director and co-founder Rachel Crandall was presented with the Michigan Bar Association's Liberty Bell Award at a ceremony at the Hyatt Regency of Dearborn.

Nominated by the Stonewall Bar Association, Crandall was presented with the award for her dedicated work over the past ten years advocating for the understanding of and equal rights for the transgender community. The organization was started after Crandall lost her job, marriage, home and friends after coming out as transgender.

TheScotsman.com - By Tim Cornwell

There was one play by Tennessee Williams, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of such American classics as A Streetcar Named Desire, which he never wanted performed in his lifetime. It was And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens, with its central character of a transvestite who brings a sailor home in the hope of seducing him.  Read more »

TheOlympian.com - Ruth Schneider

So, it turns out Olympia's best-kept secret is hardly a secret.

Drag night, the last-Saturday-of-the-month event at Jake's on Fourth, is one of the hottest places to be.

Even if you're straight.

Even if you're married.

SoVo.com - By Dyana Bagby

Transgender identities cross a fluid spectrum, causing confusion for some, freedom for others

Nation’s largest trans conference comes to ATL

Southern Comfort Conference
Sept. 29-Oct. 5
Crowne Plaza Ravinia
4355 Ashford Dunwoody
770-395-7700
www.sccatl.org

Cole Thaler is a gay man. But, he explained, he was “assigned female at birth.”

Confused?  Read more »

Stuff.co.nz - Ben Fawkes - The Dominion Post

Employers with transgender staff should assist them as they change sex, proposed Labour Department guidelines say.

Such assistance would include helping them to decide which toilets to use and ensuring the person's new name was used.

The draft plan says employers should meet an employee intending to change sex and establish a "written action plan" to ensure their workplace transition was smooth.

GayCityNews.com - By Arthur Leonard

A federal judge has embraced an ingenious analogy between religious conversion and gender transition to explain his September 19 ruling that refusing to hire a transsexual applicant constitutes employment discrimination "because of sex," a violation of the 1964 federal Civil Rights Act.  Read more »

Xtra.ca - Todd Klinck

Two big, burly construction worker types are leaning against the bar. A bunch of girls parade in front of them, all competing for attention. The guys are clearly enjoying the spectacle and the attention - both of them are regulars, and they have become friends. Just like any guy, they like to chill, drink beer, and talk about chicks. A busty latina walks in, immediately capturing their attention.

"Dude, I was with her last week man, she has like the hottest cock."

"Really, man? Is it thick?"  Read more »

UK.Reuters.com

Yogyakarta, Indonesia (Reuters Life!) - Wearing headscarves and reciting the Koran, students at an Indonesian Islamic school look like ordinary women practicing their faith in the holy month of Ramadan, but they are actually transvestites.

Breaking with the norm in the world's most populous Muslim nation, Mujahadah al-Fatah provides a special program for Muslim transvestites during Ramadan, the holiest month of the Islamic calendar when religious fervor intensifies.