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• TRANSGENDER RAF PILOT

  by Bebe Brum December 23, 2014
  Flight Lieutenant Ayla Holdom, 34, is the first and currently the only openly transgender military pilot in Britain. Yesterday she spoke out about returning to work at RAF Chivenor in North Devon as a search and rescue helicopter pilot, having undergone two years’ of operations to become a wom...
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• THE BOY IN THE DRESS

  by Bebe Brum December 21, 2014
  THE BOY IN THE DRESS The film version of the childrens book is being shown on BBC 1 on the 26th of December 2014 at 18:55pm. It tells the story of a twelve-year-old boy who enjoys cross-dressing, and the reactions of his family and friends. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04w7pgj http://en.wiki...
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• JUST A GIRL (Radio Drama)

  by Bebe Brum December 21, 2014
  JUST A GIRL How would you cope if your child was born into the wrong body? Powerful new drama by Mark Davies Markham.   http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04v89nl http://www.markdaviesmarkham.com/
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• USA TRANSGENDER WORKERS CIVIL RIGHTS

  by Bebe Brum December 19, 2014
  Claims of workplace discrimination against transgender people will now be covered under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Attorney General Eric Holder announced in a memo released Thursday. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/u-s-announces-protections-transgender-government-workers/  ...

• LGBT Films of 2014

  by Bebe Brum December 17, 2014
  Films about LGBT people are getting seen more widely than ever, with dozens of DVD and VOD releases making queer content available to everyone. Fantastically, a lot of these made it into cinemas across the UK, with films such as Pride and The Imitation Game even enjoying residencies in multiplexes. ...
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• BEAUTIFUL BY NIGHT

  by Bebe Brum December 10, 2014
  James Hosking documents the lives of three senior drag queens Donna Personna, Collette LeGrande and Olivia Hart, performers at aunt Charlie’s Lounge, the very last gay bar in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. http://dangerousminds.net/comments/stirring_portrait_of_aging_drag_queens

• Teen gets sex change, parents retract newspaper birth announcem

  by Bebe Brum December 3, 2014
  When 19-year-old Elizabeth Anne Bogert decided to start identifying as a man, his parents reacted in an innovative, witty and touching way. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/teen-gets-sex-change-parents-retract-newspaper-birth-announcement-in-heartwarming-fashion-9898188.html

• LGBT Characters in Science Fiction

  by Bebe Brum November 26, 2014
  As part of our major celebrations of sci-fi on film and TV, we take a look back at the LGBT characters who have appeared on the big and small screen over the decades. http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/pictures-lgbt-sci-fi-characters-film-tv?utm_content=bufferc1ca3&utm_medium=soci...
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• LGBT and American Doctors

  by Bebe Brum November 13, 2014
  If you're gay or lesbian or bisexual or transgender, odds are that you've had a doctor flinch or flounder through an appointment. The next generation of physicians needs to do better, the Association of American Medical Colleges announced Tuesday.     http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/201...
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• Malaysian court overturns cross-dressing ban

  by Bebe Brum November 7, 2014
  Three Malaysian transgender women have won an appeal against a religious law banning Muslim men from wearing women's clothing. Appeals court Judge Mohamad Yunus said the "degrading, oppressive and inhumane" law discriminated against people with gender issues. Gender issues and homosexuality remain...
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• Ricky Renee

  by Bebe Brum November 5, 2014
  In 1967 Britsh Pathé did a short news item about him called “Quick Change Artist,” which is hilarious and a bit poignant in what they are and aren’t saying out loud. Basically Pathé‘s strategy with a cabaret artist as self-evidently awesome as Ricky Renee was to...
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• CASA SUSANNA PICS

  by Bebe Brum November 1, 2014
  Casa Susanna” was the name of a house in Hunter, New York, a safe haven for heterosexual males who liked to dress as women, a setting where they could indulge something approximating their true selves, an act that would be scorned in the regular society in which the Don Drapers of the world op...
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