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Rob Ford the Musical’s ‘Tranny’ decried (update 3)
Update 3: Tonight, in a conversation with Brett McCaig, he told me they would be going back to the drawing board on the “Tranny” character. See new post on it at Back to the drawing board *******...
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Homophobia vs. transphobia
A Vancouver school board approved amendments on Monday to enact guidelines and practices supporting transgender students. It has been a controversial process, to say the least, but one trustee who...
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Smash hit play about strippers, drugs and AIDS in glitzy 1980s Montreal...
Alexis Lemay-Plamondon and Simon Therrien co-star in Saint Jude du Village (Photo courtesy Les Productions Boy About Town) Montreal’s notorious Café Cléopatra on The Main was packed with strippers,...
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Malaysia: Transgender people face 'systematic repression'— reports
Transgender people — as well as gay and lesbian folks — probably should think twice about vacationing in Malaysia. Human Rights Watch, a U.S.-based organization, issued a report today describing the...
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Child harassed by adult stranger . . .
What would you do? If your child was being harassed by a stranger, would you call the police? Or . . . I wonder how many parents would take matters into their own hands. It sounds like a potentially...
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Jennifer Laude: Another transgender woman slain
A sad story this past weekend out of the Philippines is yet another example of the perils faced by transgender women. ABC News and others are reporting that a U.S. Marine is being detained on a U.S....
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Jennifer Laude's slaying raises disclosure issue for transgender people
In the aftermath of the slaying of transgender woman Jennifer Laude, a lot of trans people are — or should be — reconsidering the disclosure issue. Should they tell prospective dates or customers that...
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Transgender people mourn their dead on TDoR
A transgender woman is found dead with her head submerged in a toilet bowl in a hotel room in the Philippines. A witness reports that the suspect in the case, a U.S. Marine, did not know that Jennifer...
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Anti-LGBT sentiment in Canada and the U.S.: The ISIS factor
I’ll say one thing for Matt McLaughlin: at least he is honest. The California attorney has proposed a ballot initiative in that state that has some people comparing him to terrorist groups like ISIS:...
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LGBTQ people attacked in Ottawa: report
THIS POST HAS BEEN AMENDED. Heads up! If you’re a member of the LGBTQ community and you’re going to be in the heart of Ottawa, be on guard against physical attacks by homophobic or transphobic people....
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