All posts tagged "transgender"
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Heartbreak Hotel
It's awfully hard not to smile when presented with director Mariusz Trelinski's modern take on Giacomo Puccini's highly revered classic, La Boheme. There is something...
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Back to School
GenderPAC, the D.C.-based, human-rights organization working to eliminate gender stereotypes, released its 2007 GENIUS Index, tracking efforts in academe to promote awareness of and prohibit...
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Gender Confusion
It's hard to imagine what Virginia Grace Soto went through during the two days she spent at a male detention center at the D.C. jail....
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Katastrophe
THERE WEREN'T TOO many people to look up to in mainstream media while growing up as female-to-male transgender, recalls Katastrophe. The 27-year-old native of the...
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Trans Job Training
While Washington has some of the best civil-rights protections for transgender residents of any jurisdiction in the country -- or the world, for that matter...
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Simon Says
Simon Aronoff remembers being a child who would go to sleep with an expectation of waking up in a boy's body, rather than the female...
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Birds and Bees
The mood in the basement ballroom of the downtown JW Marriott seemed fairly sedate Sunday afternoon, July 15, as Joan Roughgarden of Stanford Univesity presented...
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Manifest Destiny
Destiny B. Childs has racked up a lot of titles in three short years of life: Miss Gaye Dreamgirls. Miss International Gay Rodeo Association. Miss...
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A Pride Trans-formation
With new protections for transgender people going into effect in October 2006, Washington has the distinction of leading the country in protecting the transgender community...
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Judge Hits D.C. Fire & Emergency Medical Services Agency
More than a decade has passed since the since Tyra Hunter, a transgender D.C. woman, died. But correcting the transphobic and homophobic culture of the...
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God Knows
Recounting her initial fears about launching a transgender choir, founder Ashley Moore says, ''Are people going to be able to stop laughing long enough to...
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HIPS Needs Help
Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive (HIPS) will hold its quarterly volunteer orientation -- a requirement for anyone hoping to volunteer for the organization -- on Saturday,...
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Murderer sentenced to 26 years
There was no seat to be found on Friday morning in Courtroom 111 at the D.C. Superior Court, as Preston Randolph Logan awaited his sentence...
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Buying Time
It's been two months since Preston Randolph Logan pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, but it will be at least one more week before he receives...
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Defeated Bill
The House Judiciary Committee voted 12-8 against Del. Don Dwyer's (R-Anne Arundel) proposed amendment that would ban marriage rights for same-sex couples in the state...
