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"Harry David" saja69@hotmail.com To: pinkmonthly@hotmail.com Subject: operations,electrolysis,facial,m to f in respective order Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 07:31:20 PDT Dear Friends, I went to therapy and have been taking the hormones for two years. When I go dancing people can hardly tell. Still, I am bearded and incomplete. Hormones and therapy have taken a lot of money. So, I do not have much saved. I am currently living and teaching in South Korea. I have searched Pusan and Bangkok for affordable doctors for electrolysis, facial, and the change. I have had no success. Do you know of any clinics that I could go to? They could be medical schools or simple one room offices. I have one free round trip ticket to anywhere in the orient and 5k. I must use them wisely. One last thing. My supply of estrace is running out and I have been unable to find it here. Have you or you friends found a pharmacy in Seoul that carries that little blue tablet? Please, I need help and do not know where to go. would you help me? Thank you. Your Sister, Saja |
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| From: NLGJA@aol.com Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 17:32:13 EDT Subject: LAS VEGAS CONVENTION UPDATE National Lesbian and Gay
Journalists Association MEET THE PRESS, PRESS THE FLESH… Viva Las Vegas…Join CBS' Lesley Stahl, Virginia Appuzzo of the White House, some of Hollywood's top producers and hundreds of your gay and lesbian colleagues at "Dealing an Open Hand in the Newsroom," NLGJA's seventh annual convention, October 1-4. Whether you're looking to advance your career or ready to switch to a different medium, this year's convention offers you the chance to develop your skills while teaching members how to deal with their sexual orientation in the workplace. If you are not in media, but want to learn more about how the press works, meet newsroom contacts for your organization or are looking for writers or communication people-join us! Information, including registration form (hit the REGISTER button at the bottom of the homepage) and NEW Fully Detailed program schedule (hit the SCHEDULE button at the bottom of the homepage) posted at www.nlgja.org MESSAGE FROM OUR PROGRAM
CHAIRS: Here are some good reasons to come to join us in Las Vegas, that maddening mixture of urban growth, vast deserts, high-stakes gambling and glitz. Our convention is an opportunity to see top shows, and bottom ones, red rocks and glowing neon. The USA's second most popular tourist destination, Las Vegas has already attracted more conference registrants at this point than our previous convention. Everybody's coming, be there. Be there to join Hollywood's top producers and agents in a discussion of gays and gay themes in their industry. Meet the producers and editors from Entertainment Weekly, Soap Opera Digest and Entertainment Tonight, the senior vice president of Walt Disney Touchstone, the executive producers of Frasier and Tales of the City, the director of the Opposite of Sex and the cofounder of Storyline Productions. Come watch Allison Bechdel of "Dykes to Watch Out For" entertain us with a cartoon slide show. Listen to Bob Smith of "Openly Bob." ham it up at lunch. And if you're looking to advance your career or improve your skills, make the switch to TV or the web or hoped to learn long-form writing, this convention is for you. There will be daylong trainings in each of these areas, where professionals teach the basics of the web, TV production, computer assisted reporting, magazine and book writing. But this convention isn't just about job skills. One day is devoted to helping people come out and manage being out. Professional facilitators teach journalists how to feel comfortable with their coworkers, friends and families and how to balance their sexual identity with their professional one. Activist journalists learn to speak effectively to the masses and the powerbrokers. There will be opportunities to explore the differences and similarities between men and women, people of color, the bi-trans community, the liberal and conservative. And, there will be a "Flick at Night," some of the countries best films brought to you courtesy of us. And the usual rowdy women's dinner and a first-ever tea dance for the guys. There are also the usual hot topics that give us that once-a-year charge: Tim McVeigh talks about being outed by AOL, news directors discuss why they aired hidden video of bathroom sex encounters. Virginia Apuzzo gives a view from the top of the White House, Allen Gilmour from the top of industry and Lesley Stahl from the nation's top newsmagazine. When should you get there? Any time after Thursday at 7 and you miss Lesley Stahl. When to leave? Not before Sunday at 2 or you miss our first ever convention-wide plenary on the country's -- and our industry's -- most divisive issue: the assault on affirmative action and diversity. Flights are booking up so don't miss the fireworks! SOMETHING FOR SPOUSES Also, the Las Vegas Chapter is hosting a spouse's outing (no puns...) on Friday, Oct. 2. They're heading for the day to Red Rock Canyon, one of the region's most exquisite and surprising natural wonders. Added bonus: the tour is given by a lesbian ranger. If they are interested, e-mail richter316@aol.com to reserve a space or for more information. REMINDER: Hotel reservations for the ALEXIS PARK RESORT are still available at $120 for double-double suite or $175 for loft suites. These prices are guaranteed until September 1… Call 800.582.2228 or 702.796.3322. Discount American Airlines tickets available by calling American at 800.433.1790 or your travel agent and refer to STARfile #1698UK. QUESTIONS? Call the NLGJA National Office at 202.588.9888 or respond to this e-mail. See you in Las Vegas! |
| From: Looppubl@aol.com Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 14:04:10 EDT Subject: Community Wide- 2nd Call for Submissions - "There's No Place Like Home" FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE- "There's No Place
Like Home - A Unique Collection of Recipes and Stories
from the Gay and Lesbian Community" LOOP Publishing and Communications will be releasing a new book entitled, "There's No Place Like Home - A Unique Collection of Recipes and Stories from the Gay and Lesbian Community." Recipe and story submissions are being accepted through September 15, 1998. Reservations for copies can be made beginning July 1, 1998. Books will go on sale in December, 1998. "There's No Place Like Home" is a compilation of favorite recipes and thoughts gathered from celebrities, artists, writers, performers, elected officials, organization members, restaurants, vacation spots, Moms, Dads, athletes, church members, activists, musicians, actors, filmmakers and so many others from within the global gay and lesbian community. Included are stories, memories, and thoughts about home, food, traditions, sharing and celebration as well as quotes and historical notations. "This book is a celebration of what home and family is to us and what we've brought with us through the years. It's not about "gay cooking" but , rather, about our feelings about home and family which so often include memories about cooking and gatherings around a meal. There are recipes that have been passed down, stories about our connection to family, memories about special meals, and thoughts about traditions....some told with humor, others told with deep emotions, and some simply offered casually and easily", explains Veronica Matthews, editor and publisher of , "There's No Place Like Home." "We're receiving submissions from California to New York to Germany to Australia. The recipes and anecdotes are coming from individuals, business owners and organizations and include everything from the simplest of dishes and the funniest stories to amazing culinary creations and the tenderest memories. It's a wonderful snapshot of our community, however open and fluid that might be. We all have a connection to family in common and this is a beautiful picture of that. I encourage everyone to submit a little something to be part of this project. " Submissions can be made
via email to LoopPUBL@aol.com or through the submission form
at the website at: http://www.tcfb.com/community-cookbook or via postal mail to: Additional information including advertising specs for "There's No Place Like Home" can be found on the website. Advertising info can also be obtained by sending email to LoopPubl@aol.com Attn: Veronica Matthews. |
| From: Paul
Canning canning@rainbow.net.au To: "canning@rainbow.net.au" canning@rainbow.net.au Subject: A True Story DJADI-DUGARANG A True Story Belinda (not her real name) was arrested for drug possession and after a quick appearance before a magistrate was sent to the Metropolitan Reception and Remand Centre (MRRC) at Silverwater. The MRRC is the new 900 bed gaol opened about a year ago with much fanfare that this was to be a ‘user-friendly gaol, a safe gaol, a gaol that would greatly reduce, if not eliminate, deaths in custody. Belinda was a recognized transgender who presented as a female, although born a male. She had progressed through the transition to the point of having all the physical appearances of a woman but was still at the pre-op stage, i.e. the final change of genitalia had not yet been made. Instead of placing Belinda in a female prison - her designated sex - she was placed in a male prison. Because of her recognized need for protection she was placed in the strict protection pod at the MRRC, to join two other transgender inmates and sixty odd male inmates. These strict protection inmates included paedophiles, vicious rapists and other inmates in need of strict protection. The NSW Department of Corrective Services was in the process during this time (late last year) of reviewing their Transgender Policy but because such a review was in process Belinda was treated and recognized, because of her birth sex, as a male prisoner, breasts and all!! The only official acceptance of her position was that she was to be placed in a single cell - if this was her request. She did. Regardless of this wink-and-a-nod to duty of care towards transgender inmates, within three days Belinda had been allegedly raped twice (orally and anally) and hung herself on 27 December last year. Belinda’s situation is not unique as transgender inmates suffer brutally at the hands of other inmates, custodial officers and staff. They are normally referred to as ‘things’ or ‘it’ and few have any understanding of their real needs. The alleged rape of Belinda occurred during daylight hours when the pod (part of the prison which houses inmates) is fully staffed and inmates are all over the pod exercising or involved in activities. There are two witnesses to the rapes and statements have been made to the authorities investigating the suicide. This is normally not done. Especially where the transgender inmates are concerned. Discussions with other transgender inmates, along with meetings with the Gender Centre in Sydney opened up a world of absolute debasement and discrimination levelled at transgenders, whether incarcerated or not. Homophobia is bad enough but the treatment meted out to transgenders is total. Very few so called ‘normal people’ (should such exist) are comfortable in accepting transgenders as individuals who have suffered a genetic error - a female psyche in a male body or a male psyche in a female body. The System - whether capitalist or not - discriminates every day in every way against transgenders. In employment, medically, socially, in every way possible they are discriminated against. Especially by the police, the courts and our gaol system. They are put through every psychiatric and medical hoop merely because they need to change their birth sex to their preferred sex. Transgenders have the same human rights to a full and satisfying life as does every other person on this planet. There is, at least, discussion between the Department of Corrective Services, Gender Centre, Anti Discrimination Board and even to the Indigenous Social Justice Association, among others on obtaining human rights for transgender inmates, of whatever stage of transition. The new Transgender Policy has now been agreed to (with some reservations from some quarters) and is far in advance of the previous gaol policy. Discussion are now being held with the gaol officers union - the Prisons Officers Vocational Branch of the Public Service Association as to the implementation of the Policy into the NSW gaols. Custodial officers are known as a very conservative group and generally believe that gaols are becoming too soft thus allowing the inmates to have too much freedom and too many rights. The new Policy (still labelled DRAFT) sets out that self identification as a member of the opposite sex is the only criterion for identification as a transgender. Such identification covers police stations/lock-ups, courts/court cells and all NSW gaols. Persons received into the custody of the Department of Corrective Services who self-identify as a transgender have the right to be housed in a goal appropriate to their gender of identification, subject to certain provisions being met of course. Firstly all transgender inmates - at whatever stage of transition - will be received into the Metropolitan Reception and Remand Centre (MRRC) for full induction screening. As was Belinda. Secondly Case Management will then decide where the inmate is to go. Case Management is managed by custodial staff. The Department has many good and enlightened Policies. Their implementation is something else. In Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg, there is a list of demands sought by transgenders on an international basis, called the International Bill of Gender Rights which was adopted on 17 June 1995. I strongly recommend the book to all who are interested in transgender issues. Some of the demands are; the right to competent medical and professional care; the right of freedom from psychiatric diagnosis or treatment; the right to form committed, loving relationships and enter into marital contracts; the right to conceive, bear or adopt children, to nurture and have custody of children and to exercise parental capacity. The first two, I believe, do not exist in any custodial situation in Australia. Access for the demands above within the wider community is difficult to non-existent due mainly to pressure from the Christo-fascists both within and without governments to do nothing except to harass transgenders, homosexuals, indeed any group that does not ‘fit’ their Christo-capitalist mould of ‘family’ and ‘normalcy’. Australia is currently lurching to the Right - led by a psycho-economic rationalist Howard, along with his Hanson alter ego, both spewing their own/same psychobabble - a psychobabble of exclusion for minority groups, whether racial, sexual, social or just ‘different’. Feinberg gives us the solution in reminding us that; "It’s not your lipstick that’s oppressing me, or your tie, or whether you change your sex, or how you express yourself. An economic system oppresses us in this society and keeps us fighting each other, instead of looking at the real source of this subjugation" And again; "We can never throw enough people overboard to win approval from our enemies. Should we try to argue that we’re as ‘normal’ as those who organize against our civil (and human my words) rights". The final word, or words, on the why, where and how of what is needed I leave to Frederick Douglas, a former Afro-American slave - "If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favour freedom and yet deprecate agitation…. want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters …. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will! Belinda, we will
continue to demand on your behalf. Indigenous Social
Justice Association Paul Canning canning@rainbow.net.au Washington Blade Anti-Gay attack
‘permanently altered’ victim’s life As the key congressional panel in charge of examining possible impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, the House Judiciary Committee is in no position to move ahead any time soon with legislation aimed at prosecuting hate crimes against Gay people, even though the committee held a hearing on such legislation last month. That was the assessment this week of Capitol Hill insiders familiar with the committee and its chairperson, Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.). Gay activists and their supporters in Congress had hoped the committee’s July 22 hearing - and the moving testimony at the hearing by a victim of anti-Gay violence - would prompt Hyde to put the Hate Crimes Protection Act on a fast track. A heterosexual man from Boise, Idaho, told the committee at the hearing that he has lost all vision in one eye and can no longer pursue a career as an artist as a result of a vicious Gay-bashing attack from an assailant who thought he was Gay. Mark Bangerter, 47, known in Boise for his oil paintings of scenes in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, urged the committee and Congress to pass the Hate Crimes Protection Act. The bill would give federal prosecutors the authority to prosecute hate crimes based on a victim’s sexual orientation, gender, or disability. Bangerter’s testimony came after several Republicans on the committee questioned the need for an expanded federal hate crimes law, saying state and local prosecutors already have authority to prosecute physical assaults such as the one against Bangerter, even if those assaults are not listed as hate crimes. But Bangerter told the committee that Boise police failed to do an adequate job in investigating his case. He said that, when he contacted the FBI for help, an FBI official told him the bureau considered taking on the case but determined that it lacked statutory authority to do so. Bill Lann Lee, the acting assistant U.S. attorney general, expressed strong support for the Hate Crimes Protection Act, during more than two hours of testimony before the committee. Lee, under sharp questioning from several Republican members of the committee, said FBI crime statistics show that anti-Gay hate crimes pose a serious national problem. Lee said the Justice Department believes federal prosecutors should have the authority to investigate and prosecute hate crimes based on sexual orientation, gender, and disability in cases where local authorities are unwilling or lack the resources to prosecute such crimes. An existing federal law allows federal authorities to prosecute hate crimes based on race, color, religion, and national origin. Bangerter said an unidentified male attacker apparently mistook him for being Gay after he hugged a male friend in a downtown Boise bar about 9:30 p.m. on April 15. According to Bangerter, minutes after his friend left the bar, the assailant called him a "faggot" and punched him in the head. Bangerter said the attacker, who has yet to be apprehended, then assaulted him two more times, once outside the bar and another time in front of his apartment. In the latter assault, witnesses reported that the assailant knocked Bangerter down and kicked him repeatedly in the head while Bangerter lay unconscious. Bangerter said the injuries he suffered from the attack left him blind in his left eye and took away his depth perception, greatly hindering his ability to draw and paint pictures. "My life has been permanently altered, all because someone hated Gay people enough to try to kill one," he told the committee. "The irony, of course, is that I’m not Gay. This happened to me because I simply hugged a friend goodbye. I do not want to imagine what can, and does, happen to people who really are Gay." Lt. Jim Tibbs, a spokesperson for the Boise police, said police investigated the assault against Bangerter but were unable to identify the suspect. Tibbs said Boise police are "fully committed" to investigating all hate crimes, including anti-Gay hate crimes. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, joined Rep. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), the chief sponsor of the bill in the House, in expressing strong support for the legislation. Conyers, citing the recent hate-related murder of an African American in Texas, said he will urge the House to pass the legislation at the earliest possible date. However, Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), the chair of the committee, took no position on the bill and gave no indication of when or if he would schedule a markup hearing to approve the bill and send it to the House floor for a vote. President Clinton has expressed strong support for the bill. Other witnesses at the hearing - including four law professors and a local prosecutor - expressed conflicting views over whether the bill would violate the U.S. Constitution by improperly transferring powers to enforce state and local criminal laws from states to the federal government. Hate Crimes mailing List
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| Subject: Call
for submissions for the 6th International Bisexual
Conference Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 19:42:47 From: Wayne Roberts ausbinet@rainbow.net.au Please spread as widely as possible: 6th International
Bisexual Conference (IBC6) Call for Presentations The sixth International Bisexual Conference (IBC6) will be held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in the summer of 2000. The conference theme is "Same Preference, Different Lifestyles." The conference is organized by an independent organizing committee in co-operation with the Dutch Bi Network. We are currently seeking proposals for workshops, presentations, papers, panel discussions, and performances in the following subject tracks: * Activism The official language of the conference will be English; however, sessions in other languages will be considered. If you would like to present your session in a language other than English, please include that information in your proposal. Please follow the format of the proposal submission form below. Regardless of the language to be used during the session, please complete the form in English. The deadline for proposals is February 1, 2000. Send completed forms to: IBC6 Call for Papers Alternatively, you may submit proposal forms electronically by sending them to presentations@lnbi.demon.nl This address can also be used to contact the program coordinator. Further information about the conference can be found on the worldwide web at http://www.lnbi.demon.nl/ibc6/ =============== Cut Here ========================== 6th International
Bisexual Conference * General Title of presentation: * Submitter Name: * Other Presenter(s) Name: * Content Format (panel, workshop,
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| END BIT This was passed along by our dear friend Jan, now in Singapore working the radio waves: WELL GROOMED Athens: Greek machismo suffered a below-the-belt blow this week in Crete when a bride-to-be had to be taken to hospital with "severe shock" after catching her intended groom in the act with his best man on the eve of her wedding. A police officer in Heraklion said the incident had scandalised the southern Greek island, where the groom has gone to ground. "What was really upsetting for her was that he was wearing her wedding dress when she caught him having sex in their own bed," he said. "Her family has sworn revenge if they ever find him." The Athens news agency which carried the report said the couple decided to get married after a turbulent relationship, and the wedding date was set for last Saturday. The bride-to-be walked in on her fiance and his best man after friends asked her to take them to the couple's home for a pre-marriage peek at her wedding dress. A witness told the news agency: "Late on Friday night, when the friends wanted to see the wedding gown, they went to the home the intending newly weds had just set up for themselves." Despite making a lot of noise as they entered the villa, the group caught the groom "dressed in the bridal gown and in the arms of his best man". The scandal, splashed on the front pages of several national newspapers, caused the jilted bride to have a nervous breakdown. The whereabouts of the groom and his best man were unknown last night, but the police officer said "the whole of Heraklion" was out looking for them. "People feel very angry," he said. "This is bad for our reputation here and abroad." The Guardian |
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