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( Living / Society )Tallahassee, FL, USA. Cars have personality? A new study led by a Florida State University (FSU) researcher confirms, through complex statistical analysis, that many people see human facial features in the front end of automobiles and ascribe various
12-01-08
Word count: 90
( Living / Society )Montgomery, AL, USA. As Americans send the country’s first black president to the White House, Alabamans are embracing the state's role in the civil rights struggle and saluting the heroes who helped pave the way for Barack Obama’s Election Day v
11-13-08
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Columbia, MO, USA. While religious belief is very important to most people, there are many who are skeptics, outright unbelievers, or disaffected with religious practice. Science has nothing to say about religious doctrine, of course, but social sc
09-10-08
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( Living / Society )Dana Point, CA, USA. Christine Jorgensen (30 May 1926 - 3 May 1989) was one of the first people widely known to the public for undergoing a surgical procedure that would become widely known as Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS). It had been done since 19
08-25-08
Word count: 193
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Washington, DC, USA. Every state but Alaska has issued at least one AMBER Alert — a public announcement of a child abduction using the media, email and traffic signs — since Texas launched the first program in 1997. But the number of alerts has
07-21-08
Word count: 1073
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Chicago, IL, USA. As human beings, we use categories to organize the details of a complex world. We experience a certain comfort in the convenience and predictability of categories. That seems to work until somone else comes along with their o
07-20-08
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Columbia, MO, USA. Virtually anything can be the topic of scientific study, but a male researcher finds that men doing field research on women are limited to certain subjects. So says Robert M. Baum, a professor of religious studies at th
06-29-08
Word count: 1000
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St. Louis, MO, USA. Imagine a bunch of curious Japanese tourists stepping gingerly through the ruins of a once-grand avenue of urban America, gawking at deserted and burned-out hulks of historic buildings, wondering how a great city could have
06-25-08
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( Living / Society )Nashville, TN, USA. The arrival of daylight-saving time this weekend means extra time for evening yard work or barbecues, but for some it also means sleepy days at work and even a bit of crankiness. This year, clocks moved forward one hour at 2 a.m.
03-08-08
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( Living / Society )Seattle, WA, USA. If you need information, the Internet offers a wealth of resources. But if you're hunting down a person or a thing, a computer's not much help. That may soon change. When confronted by emerging science and technology, the public mus
02-20-08
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( Living / Society )Warwick, UK and Hanover, NH. There is an extraordinarily consistent international pattern in depression and happiness levels. Many previous studies of the life-course had suggested that psychological well-being stayed relatively flat and consistent a
01-30-08
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( Living / Society )Washington, DC, USA. One of the most awkward moments for anyone born with Harry Benjamin Syndrome (HBS fna transsexuality) can occur during transition. It is a time when the HBS men and women are living as their post transition sex but before th
01-12-08
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( Living / Society )Durham, NH, USA. Do you have the shopping gene? It could come in handy. Some people view shopping as a blood sport. The period after an annual holiday season can call on all of a bargain hunters resources. Certain shoppers appear to exhibit
12-31-07
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( Living / Society )2 out of 3 on shaky financial ground
Waltham, MA, USA. Fewer than one in three middle-class families in America is financially secure. The remaining majority are either borderline or at high risk of falling out of the middle class altogethe
12-03-07
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( Living / Society )Unconscious wants undermining conscious pursuits
San Diego, CA, USA. Do you like your name and initials? Most people do. In fact, past research has shown we sometimes like them enough to influence other important behaviors.
For ex
11-15-07
Word count: 580
( Living / Society )Does the concept of god influence cooperative behaviour?
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA. Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) investigated how thinking about God and notions of a higher power influenced positive social b
09-05-07
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( Living / Society )Beloved friend of the community succumbs to leukemia
Washington, DC, USA. Cheryl Ann Spector passed away on the morning of 4 September 2007 after a 10 week battle with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML).
Spector was well-known
09-04-07
Word count: 119
( Living / Society )Continues her battle against leukemia
Washington, DC, USA. As reported earlier, Cheryl Ann Spector is seriously ill with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML). She is well-known in the Washington, DC area for her dedication to Gay and Lesbian ca
08-20-07
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( Living / Society )long-time activist in the Washington, DC community
Washington, DC, USA. Cheryl Ann Spector, well-known in the Washington, DC area for her dedication to Gay and Lesbian causes, is reported to be seriously ill with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia
07-02-07
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Transgender Europe ". . . uses the term transgender in the broadest sense, to include transsexual, transvestite, and transgender people such as drag queens, cross-dressers and other people who feel that they don’t belong in the strict binary
01-15-07
Word count: 260
( Living / Society )The Jalopy Effect: does it all depend on age?
London, UK and Cape Town, South Africa. A survey of over 500 people has found that in the eyes of motorists a car changes its sex as it gets older.
The survey, conducted by the Bosch Car Serv
11-21-06
Word count: 211
( Living / Society )Annual day marks transgender losses, triumphs
San Francisco, California, USA. Vigils, services, and other events are being held Monday in 250 cities worldwide on the eighth Transgender Day of Remembrance, founded in 1999 in San Francisco by
11-20-06
Word count: 159
( Living / Society )Soulforce urges Christians: reach out to Ted Haggard
Austin, Texas, USA. The social justice organization Soulforce has launched a campaign urging LGBT people and straight allies to write letters of concern and compassion to Rev. Ted &nb
11-18-06
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( Living / Society )Beloved speech therapist assisted numerous TS and TG clients
Washington, DC, USA. Joan Roddy Regnell, 74, an associate professor of speech and hearing at George Washington University for more than 40 years, died of acute renal failure Oct. 2
10-28-06
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( Living / Society )"You are neither wrong nor alone"
Istanbul, Turkey. Lambdaistanbul's homosexual consultation hotline, which has been in operation for the past two years, is now continuing its role with an expanded scope and revitalized energy.
10-10-06
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( Living / Society )Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive (HIPS)
Washington, DC, USA. The Transsexual Symposium has announced a joint project with "Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive (HIPS)".
TS-Si is dedicated is dedic
09-19-06
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( Living / Society )Well-known in the Washington, DC, metro area
West Palm Beach, Florida, USA. Natalie Freed, 55, committed suicide by hanging herself from a noose at her condominium i West Palm Beach.
Freed formerly lived in the Washington, DC metro
09-18-06
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EV's David Lampo hosts Friday event in Alexandria
Alexandria, Virginia, USA. Equality Virginia (EV) board member David Lampo will host a fund raiser on Friday: EV is a statewide, non-partisan lobbying, education and support
09-14-06
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( Living / Society )EV's David Lampo hosts Friday event in Alexandria
Alexandria, Virginia, USA. Equality Virginia (EV) board member David Lampo will host a fund raiser on Friday: EV is a statewide, non-partisan lobbying, education and support network
09-14-06
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( Living / Society )SafeZONE offers workshops, identifies local LGBTQ-friendly businesses
Tempe, Arizona, USA. A pink triangle in a green circle on a residence-hall door may often be overlooked, but to some students, it symbolizes a place they can be themselve
09-11-06
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( Living / Society )The annual gala is Mautner's major fund raising event
Washington, DC, USA. The Mautner Project, a lesbian health organization, held its annual fundraising gala on September 9, 2006, in Washington, DC.
The Mautner Project provides
09-10-06
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( Living / Society )Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Making decisions about careers, relationships and religion is difficult at the best of times.
But never more so than it is for Breanne Lott and Rauschelle Determan. The Holladay women's choices are compounded by t
09-08-06
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( Living / Society )Batavia, New York, USA. Five parents who objected to their children being taught by a transsexual have been told the students cannot transfer out of the class.
The teacher, whose name is being withheld, has been the talk of the campus at Ba
09-06-06
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( Living / Society )Moscow, Russia. A Russian policeman, 31, attempted suicide after attempting to perform genital surgery. The police officer's spouse, Irina, made the discovery in their country cottage in the Moscow sububs and called an ambulance.
There was a r
08-30-06
Word count: 278
( Living / Society )San Francisco, California, USA. When Mark Cummings first saunters on set in jeans and a carpet of curly black hair peeking from beneath his shirt, he strikes talk show hosts and audience members alike as just another Hispanic guy.
Cummingâ€
08-28-06
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( Living / Society )Los Angeles, California, USA. A women-only summer music festival in Michigan is under fire this week for asking transgender women interested in attending the event not to come.
After an openly transgender woman was allowed to purchase a ticket at
08-25-06
Word count: 171
( Living / Society )A mother helps her little girl become a man
He says he’s felt male for as long as he can remember
Swanton, Vermont, USA. Coralyn Guidry’s 20-year-old son Michael looks like a typical young man. He has short, brown hair, so dark
08-24-06
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( Living / Society )Toronto, Canada. I love whores. I love their audacity, their tenacity and their perspicacity. I was so stoked to spend the week of the AIDS 2006 conference (Aug. 13-18) with sex workers from Thailand, Bangladesh, Cambodia, New Zealand, Brazil, Mexico
08-24-06
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( Living / Society )New York City, New York, USA. The City of New York regularly issues the comprehensive "LGBT Directory Of Services And Resources for the New York Metropolitan Area".
The directory features hundreds of community organizations, HIV/A
08-22-06
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( Living / Society )Ottawa, Canada. Danika Schoeter, the Canadian downhill racer who wore a t-shirt with the slogan "100% Pure Woman CHAMP 2006" while her supporters shouted insults and obscenities at winner Michelle Dumaresq, has apologized. Schroeter had been suspende
08-22-06
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( Living / Society )New York City, New York, USA. At The United Nations: A proposed U.N. convention that would protect the rights of the world's disabled has run into difficulties, including a lack of U.S. support, officials said Monday.
The draft convention w
08-21-06
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London, UK. A transsexual who came to prominence in 2003 for funding her sex-change operation from a national lottery win has revealed to her local newspaper that she now regrets paying £21,000 for the procedure.
Mick Parltrow, then a
08-10-06
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( Living / Society )Peter Hackney and Katrina Fox: Greens’ Senator lambasts Labor; Nationals pass civil unions motion
East Sydney, Australia. The dearth of politicians planning to attend or speak at the rally for the National Day of Action in support of same-
08-09-06
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( Living / Society )Katrina Fox reports: Are single-sex spaces an outmoded concept in today’s increasingly queer world?
East Sydney, Australia. Last week, transgender activist Norrie May-Welby was turned away from the cruise lounge of sex-on-premises venue, T
08-09-06
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( Living / Society )Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. A 47-year-old transsexual was cleared to play in an Australian women's soccer league after spending 25 years in men's leagues.
Martine Delaney, who used compete as Martin Delaney, received approval fro
08-08-06
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( Living / Society )Opinion by Tully Satre, The Advocate
New York City, New York, USA. For the past few weeks I have been staying in New York City's Greenwich Village, studying at the CAP 21 studio at New York University just a few blocks from Stonewall. I ran away f
08-08-06
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( Living / Society )Meade, Kansas, USA. A 12-year-old son's gift of a colorful flag he found while staying with his grandparents in California has put his parents in the middle of controversy in the small town of Meade, Kansas.
J.R. and Robin Knight said
08-07-06
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TS Controversy Hits Mountainbike Champs
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand -
14 hours ago. ... this month. Schroeter's racing licence has been suspended because she mocked Dumaresq, a transsexual, on the winners' podium. The ... Slight agains
08-06-06
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( Living / Society )The Rev. Clinton R. Jones, 89, of Manchester, Died June 3
Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Clint Jones began his quiet fight on behalf of gays and lesbians more than 40 years ago - an unlikely warrior for an unpopular cause.
He was the
08-06-06
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( Living / Society )Pew Report Says Americans Not Sharacterized As Conservative Or Liberal On Social Questions
Washington, DC, USA. The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press has released a comprehensive public opinion survey on America's attitude t
08-06-06
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