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Dallas Denny, Transgender Tapestry editor and longtime trans community commentator, on her upcoming run for office, Fantasia Fair, and more
Robyn Ochs, Boston-area bi activist, on her co-edited anthology of international writings on bisexuality
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Introduction
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Gordene's dress
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Bisexuality
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Raving Raven
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Gender and relating to children
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Movie: Off the Map
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Gender News
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LA judge rules in favor of asylum for transwoman
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AIDS treatment campaign asks for letters to Bush (click here for more)
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Thailand removes restrictions on gays, transsexuals in military
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"Reparative Therapy" conference to come to Boston
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Raven: Boston's famous swan couple identified as lesbian
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Supreme court nominee Roberts loses support
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Courts at odds on transsexual rights
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US factories creating less garbage
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PA court rules that GLBT anti-discrimination ordinance is OK
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Hillsboro, FL suffers from gay ban
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Teen girls suffer increasing violence from boyfriends
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Question of the Week
"I'm a transgendered guy in my 20's who started transitioning at the beginning of this year. I'd say that I pass with strangers & acquaintances approximately 50% of the time at present and while that bugs me, I take a certain amount of pride in walking a difficult, in-between places kind of line. I am forced never to relax when it comes to gender - and while sometimes I fantasize about taking T, I'm really conflicted about the notion of assimilating into a comfortably gendered biological appearance. I feel a guilty imperative to be okay with my unaltered body, even though I'm not - since I know that it's only in the gaze of people who don't respectfully understand what it means to be a transguy that my female biology bugs me out. And it isn't it precisely those people we're trying to change? When I do pass, it's often as a pretty young guy - say 15 or 16 - which gets to be strangely humiliating. I manage fine, but I'm concerned about what will happen when I get a bit older and my face ages a bit - and my voice stays the way it is, and my frame stays skinny, not very tall, and slight. I guess I feel kind of forced to consider T more seriously than in many ways I want to, just in order to pass. I can't stay a 'boy' in the gaze of people who don't know I'm trans forever, and after all, I'm not sure I'd want to. Any advice?"
(From: Teht)
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  Writer and activist Dallas Denny is chair of the planning committee for Fantasia Fair (the transgender community's longest-running event), and editor of IFGE's Transgender Tapestry journal (its leading print publication). A longtime transgender community commentator and activist, she lives in tiny Pine Lake, Georgia, population 661. Pine Lake lost its first police officer on Thursday when a "routine" traffic stop ran awry. Dallas, who twice ran unsuccessfully for city council, has decided to once more throw her hat into the ring.
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Visit the Fantasia Fair website at www.fantasiafair.org
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Visit Transgender Tapestry Magazine publisher IFGE's website at www.ifge.org
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Write to IFGE at PO Box 540229, Waltham, ma 02254
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Call IFGE at 781-899-2212
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The GenderTalk Calendar
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 Robyn Ochs, editor of the Bisexual Resource guide, a professional speaker, workshop leader and co-founder of the Boston Bisexual Women's Network (1983) and the Bisexual Resource Center (1985), talks about a new book she co-edited with Sarah E. Rowley, titled Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World.
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