Posts from ‘June, 2009’

Members of Philadelphia’s transgender community are up in arms with the City’s public transport authority — SEPTA — over a small, but meaningful, regulation now in place. It appears as if folks wishing purchase monthly discount passes must place either an “M” or “F” sticker on its back to indicated their gender. Easy enough — [...]

Although it is not exactly formal diplomatic relations, beginning today folks can fly from LAX to Havana non-stop on airplanes operated by Continental Airlines. The weekly flights from Los Angeles are not formally offered by Continental. Rather they’re run by the charter firm Cuba Travel Services which will use Continental planes to fly Cuban Americans [...]

Even though asexuals may only be one percent of the population, they’re still demanding their place in the sexual-identity marketplace known as global Pride parades. Which is why for the first time ever, Asexual contingents have begun to show up at Pride marches worldwide. Last week, AVEN — the Asexual Visability and Education Network — [...]

Although it hit Paris Fashion Week back in March, the dress above from designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac dramatically illustrates Michael Jackson’s influence on global fashion and style. Festooned with the visage of the singer from his Jackson Five days, the dress is a literal Afro-centric salute to Michael and his message. The dress was part [...]

There’s little doubt former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey knows a thing or two about sex, infidelity and elected official contrition — he wrote the book on the topics, at least from the GLBT perspective. He also wrote the book on creating the perfect follow-up act to political misconduct when he came out of the [...]

A few weeks back we reported on a rather risque safe-sex ad campaign coming out of Portugal in association with MTV. Now it appears as if the trend has spread to Italy — where a new safe-sex ad has just been released featuring a rather x-rated version of the letters HIV. The folks over at [...]

Even though the Palestinians may be a people without a nation, they’re slowly attaining nation-like status in some fairly impressive places across the globe. Last month, Palestine saw its first-ever national pavilion at the Venice Biennale — headlined by Hugo Boss award-winner Emily Jacir. This week the West Bank has its own official exhibition booth [...]

A very unusual and rather complicated legal case is now making its way through the Toronto courts — involving a 15 year-old student who is suing his posh private school for defamation. The case is the first of its kind to see a student sue a school for slander. And there are lots of elements [...]

The new website Sickcity.org is like your own personal World Health Organization. Launched out of Brooklyn, founder John Geraci monitors the health “chatter” on social networking sites like Twitter to get a sense of how much a city is talking about illness. Every day he checks sites for key words such as “food poising” or [...]