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Transgender News
Italy becomes fifth country in the world to allow trans people to change gender without a doctor
Italy has become the fifth country in the world to acknowledge that trans people are allowed to identify as trans…
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Transgender News
A Transvestite Encounter in Post-Roman Gaul
One day in the summer of the year 590, the experienced and wry divine Gregory — Metropolitan bishop of Tours…
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LGBTI News
A progressive history of gay rights in Taiwan
Gay Star News talks to Taiwanese gay rights activist Nelson Chen who is suing Taipei City Council to register his…
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LGBTI News
The Spirit & The Flesh: Sexual Diversity In American Indian Culture
American Historical Review 93 (February 1988):218-219 By skillfully integrating historical and anthropological literature with the results of his own unique…
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Intersex News
Two-spirit People Of Indigenous North Americans
Many Native American indigenous cultures have traditionally held intersex, androgynous people, feminine males, and masculine females in high respect. The…
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Transgender News
Transgender Identities in the Ancient Mediterranean
The interaction between religion and a society’s construction of gender has important ramifications for transgender communities within that culture. This…
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Transgender News
Transgender History: Timeline of Significant Events
1907 Harry Benjamin Meets Magnus Hirschfeld 1910 Magnus Hirschfeld coins the term “transvestite” 1919 Magnus Hirschfeld founds the Institute for Sexology in…
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LGBTI News
The Gay, Lesbian, and Feminist Backlash
The modern era of the gay & lesbian rights movement is usually marked as starting on a hot July evening…
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