CANADA | 20130423141707| ILGA-ASIA
The organizing committee want activists, artists, educators, journalists, policy-makers, students and others involved in sexual orientation and gender identity human rights work to submit presentations to be considered to be shown at The WorldPride Human Rights Conference 2014.

UNITED STATES | 20130422145451| Pan Africa ILGA
The Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College is pleased to announce 15 finalists for the $25,000 Kalamazoo College Global Prize and 3 finalists for its $5,000 Southwest Michigan regional social justice leadership award.

UNITED STATES | 20130412024731| ILGA-ASIA
During the 2012 elections, Vice President Joe Biden called transgender discrimination, “the civil rights issue of our time.” While this is a sign that transgender rights are garnering national attention, the population continues to face many obstacles in accessing needed health care. In particular, transgender men (or “trans men”) face significant barriers to accessing sexual and reproductive health care.

UNITED STATES | 20130410130553| ILGA-ASIA
Shulamith Firestone helped to create a new society. But she couldn’t live in itIn the late nineteen-sixties, Firestone and a small cadre of her “sisters” were at the radical edge of a movement that profoundly changed American society. At the time, women held almost no major elected positions, nearly every prestigious profession was a male preserve, homemaking was women’s highest calling, abortion was virtually illegal, and rape was a stigma to be borne in silence.

UNITED STATES | 20130128023555| ILGA-ASIA
A new US study finds that bisexual women have a higher prevalence rate of rape and sexual violence when compared to lesbian and straight women.

UNITED STATES | 20130101040939| ILGA-ASIA
Amid a year full of anti-LGBT rhetoric from people, organizations and businesses (One Million Moms, Chick-fil-A, and Kirk Cameron, among others, spring immediately to our minds), there were many remarkable, brave -- and touching -- moments from our straight allies who have spoken up and reached out to show that our fight for equality is one that is hugely important to them, too.

UNITED STATES | 20121221082610| ILGA-ASIA
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) announced that their governing body has voted to replace Gender Identity Disorder (GID) with Gender Dysphoria (GD). It’s a milestone for transgender and transsexual people, as well as for those who identify as both transgender and transsexual; the decision has medical, political and psychiatric implications.

UNITED STATES | 20121221062339| ILGA-ASIA
All week long I’ve been running posts about: “GID Removed from the DSM.” Hopefully, you’ve noticed, I’ve run a number of posts that warned against excessive exuberance. My take on GID and its return to its original name is this:  Did any one really expect a bunch of people making money off a bunch of sketchy at best “diagnoses” to kill one of their money streams?