Transgender News

A transgender senior at St. Pius X Catholic High School in Albuquerque skipped his graduation Wednesday after the school refused to let the teenager wear the black cap and gown worn by male graduates, instead insisting he wear the white graduation garb worn by female students.

They call her Queen of Swords in the Cage. Some call her unrepeatable things in the press.

Today Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval signed into law SB139, legislation adding gender identity and expression to the state's hate crimes law.

The journal - TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly - will be edited by Susan Stryker, associate professor of gender and women's studies at the University of Arizona, and Paisley Currah, professor of political science at the Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

HAVING heard rumours of a rock musical featuring transvestites and aliens, I was definitely intrigued to see the Regent Theatre's production of the 30th anniversary Rocky Horror Show.

St. Pius High School celebrated its 54th graduation ceremony today,one graduate didn't show up to receive a diploma.

Canada is lifting a nearly 30-year-old ban on gay men giving blood, though for the time being only those who are abstinent will be allowed to donate.

A Colorado state senator is visiting the White House to receive an honor given to openly gay, lesbian and transgendered public officials.

Who can turn the world on with her smile? Who can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile? Jenna Talackova hopes she's the 21st-century's answer to those questions questions first and famously posed last century in the theme song at the start of the now-legendary Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Earlier this month, Singh asked to try on an outfit at Jenny's Bridal Boutique .

One after another, major U.S. corporations have updated anti-discrimination policies to protect gay, lesbian and transgender workers, drawing plaudits from gay-rights groups.

One after another, major U.S. corporations have updated anti-discrimination policies to protect gay, lesbian and transgender workers, drawing plaudits from gay-rights groups.

Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval signed SB139 into law Tuesday. The new law adds a person's "gender identity or expression" to the list of motivating factors interpreted as a hate crime.

As education director at About Face Theatre here in Chicago, I work with transgender, lesbian, gay, queer, bisexual and straight-allied youth ages 14-23. These fierce young theater activists come to from all over Chicago to be part of our ensemble - I'm talking South Side, West Side, North Side, downtown.

Damian Garcia, a transgender teenager who was born female and wants to graduate from St.

The United States condemns the May 17th attack on a peaceful march to mark the international day against homophobia in Tbilisi, Georgia, Acting Deputy Spokesperson of the U.S. State Department, Patrick Ventrell said at a daily press briefing.

A US Airways executive told the Independence Business Alliance on Monday that Philadelphia's largest airline was pursuing and seriously committed to diversity in its workforce.

Following the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" in late 2010 and the successful transition to open service for gay, lesbian, and bisexual service members in 2011, many assumed that enshrined discrimination against LGBT people was on its way out.

New York City is the heart of America's "melting pot" of cultures and ideas. Yet even here, violence against those seen as "other" occurs.

In a massive show of solidarity, New York City's LGBT citizenry came together on the steps of The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center on the evening of May 20 to protest the recent spate of hate crimes against gays in the city, including the fatal shooting of a gay man in Greenwich Village.