Transsexual Model Lea T in Catwalk Debut

Transsexual model Lea T made her debut on the catwalk Sunday at Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Brazil wearing Alexandre Herchcovitch. Critics have lavished praise on Lea T for her presentation on the runway and the paparazzi is in love with her. Breitbart reports: ”She wore pale makeup and was accompanied by somber music as she [...]

Chaz Bono’s Gender Reassignment Documentary Coming To Oprah Winfrey’s Network OWN

Sundance Film Festival will be where it premieres, but Oprah Winfrey’s brand new cable television network, OWN, has bought Becoming Chaz. The documentary will follow the gender reassignment journey that transformed Cher and Sonny Bono’s daughter Chastity into their now son Chaz Bono. Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato directed the documentary and their ”credits include The Eyes [...]

Gay-Only Toilets in Brazil Stir Up Controversy

Brazil’s annual carnival festivities are getting underway for March and samba schools preparing for the events have stirred up controversy by designating some bathrooms for use by gays and transvestites only. Some protesters claim the designated toilets are like the separation of blacks and whites in the past.  But supporters say it is a guaranteed [...]

Barcelona Erecting Monument to Lesbians and Gays

Barcelona, Spain has decided to erect a pink, triangular, stone monument in honor of gays, lesbians, and transgendered people all over the world. The site of the monument has not been decided, but the most talked about possible location is just outside the Sacred Heart basilica where hundreds of gay people protested the Pope with [...]

Gender-Reassignment Surgeon Leaves Colorado

Famed gender-reassignment surgeon, Marci Bowers, has left Colorado to move her practice to San Francisco after months of fighting with the hospital where she performed her surgeries in Trinidad, Colorado. The Denver Post reports the residents of the small, southern Colorado town have mixed feelings about Bowers’ departure.  The 10,000 residents feel the economy will [...]

One Colorado Applauds Alexandra Reyes Decision

One Colorado released an official statement today applauding an immigration judge’s decision to grant Alexandra Reyes asylum in the US based on the abuse and persecution she suffered in Mexico. Reyes was repeatedly abused because of her transgender identity and says she has found safety and open minded people in Colorado.  Brad Clark of One [...]

Gay Games open in Cologne

On Top magazine has this from Cologne Germany … The week-long celebration of sport opened with an amazing 2-hour program that featured Matthew Mitcham, the 22-year-old openly gay Australian Olympic gold medal diver, speaking the oath of the athletes, and performances by gay icon Taylor Dayne and Swedish Idol winner Agnes Carlsson. Surrounded by fire dancers, [...]

Clark’s, One Colorado’s mission is clear: help us get along

If Brad Clark didn’t realize how hard his job as executive director of One Colorado was going to be before Wednesday night’s town hall meeting, he sure is going to feel it this morning. It’s not that his job description is impossible — lead the way to a broad social justice agenda in Colorado (his [...]

Manly Mondays: PRIDE EDITION

Men come in all different shapes and sizes. And instead of celebrating just one, this week we bring you as many different hotties as we can find! Something for everyone is the motto this week! More hunks after the jump!

Get out of town! New passport rules ease gender rules

Now transgender folk can vacay across the pond, a lot easier. The new guidelines, which were announced marking the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Month, makes it extremely simple for people to apply for change in the gender shown on the passport. The passport applicant, who wishes to make the change, has to present a certification [...]

WTF? Woman charged wtih ADULTERY in NY State

A woman caught allegedly having sex in a public park was arrested for public lewdness, but then the police added another surprising charge – Adultery.  This didn’t happen in Iran or another fundamentalist Muslim country.  This was upstate New York!  The archaic New York law brings 90 days of prison or a $500 fine.  Apparently [...]

Openly Gay Candidates Win in California, Maine, and Montana

22 LGBT candidates faced voters yesterday during the Super Tuesday primaries across America and Gay Politics reports at least 16 of them “won outright or advanced to the general elections”!  The winners included Bryce Bennett (pictured at left), who will likely win the general election to represent Montana in the State House.  Two other openly [...]

Pakistan officials stop transgender wedding, couple face jail time

Malawi officials aren’t the only bad guys crashing weddings. The Associated Press is reporting officials in Pakistan have jailed a business man and his transgender bride. Police in northwestern Pakistan broke up an apparent wedding between a businessman and his transgender bride, saying Tuesday they could face seven years in prison for violating laws against [...]

GLAAD/Transgenders cry wolf…again.

The old saying goes you can only cry wolf so many times before people quit listening, and that’s exactly what is happening to GLAAD and the transgender community. People have quit listening. With the feminine force of the trans community behind them GLAAD has issued a Call to Action against The Tribeca Film Festival for their decision [...]

Coming out at 75

Here’s a touching story from The Associated Press about a 75-year-old man who is giving life a second chance as a woman. Farthing’s life was sprinkled with hints. As a boy, his mother asked one day how he liked school. “It was OK,” Farthing said. “But it would be better if I was a girl.” [...]

One Colorado survey released

A survey of more than 4,600 GLBT Coloradans found only half are open to their extended family, most earn between $25,000 and $75,000 a year and most believe there is a need for safer schools for queer youth. Respondents to the online survey were mostly white — 87 percent. Ten percent were Latino and 4 [...]

One Colorado survey to be released Thursday

The results from a survey of more than 4,000 GLBT Coloradans will be released Thursday to law makers at a luncheon on Thursday. One Colorado‘s interim director Lea Ann Purvis said the survey is the largest of its kind done in the Centennial State. “The responses were incredible,” she said. “I was surprised at how [...]

Pregnant Man: Take 2

 There’s another trans-man ready to pop!  California transgender couple Scott & Thomas Moore are expecting a baby, due in March.  Because Scott still has a female birth certificate, the two were able to legally marry. (Gotta love those Transgender loop-holes!) Both Scott and Thomas are Transgender. I’ve love to say we’d seem them on Oprah, but this topic is [...]

Anti Trans Dallas Bar Under Investigation

According to the Dallas Voice: A month after Crews Inn co-owner David Moore temporarily banned drag queens and transgender women from his bar if their appearance does not match their ID, protests continue and two formal complaints against Crews Inn are under investigation by the city.   The Wrangler here in Denver is known for having [...]

Zapata’s brother reacts to arrest

The family of Angie Zapata, an 18-year-old transgender woman who was murdered two weeks ago, will celebrate her birthday on Aug. 5 knowing her killer has been caught. “I’m happy they caught him,” Gonzalo Zapata, Angie’s older brother, told the gayzette. “We’re still upset, but this has brought us some closure. Honestly, upset isn’t a [...]