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Hormonal therapy for transsexual patients is safe and effective, a multicenter European study indicates. The results will be presented Saturday at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Transsexual individuals who seek treatment may feel as though they were born the wrong gender. Surgical and hormonal therapies are available to help these people change their external characteristics to match their internal image of themselves. Hormonal therapy involves large doses...
LOS ANGELES, May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Author Michael Donovan's new novella, Football Games, is available today, announced Emancipated Publications. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130510/PH11501) Football Games tells the story of a gay and closeted professional football player who is fighting against his own internal demons, and the pressure he faces on the home front from his boyfriend of 4 years. This player must decide, if he will remain a successful and...
WYNCOTE, Pa., April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In March of 2012, Suddenly Fem(TM) embarked on a Model search for a new cover girl for their business - the one and only US fashion line designed and manufactured for the male to female crossdresser and transgender shopper. Suddenly Fem(TM) has shot on location in studios and lavish locations in Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles for the past 15 years. A nationwide search was initiated and hundreds of submissions from beautiful T-Girls...
Connecting to the gay and lesbian customer is not a straight line. These days it takes more than a rainbow flag, a witty headline or a lame cliche that uses tasteless, provocative imagery to influence the lucrative Gay and lesbian marketplace. Phoenix, Arizona (PRWEB) April 22, 2013 With its upcoming launch, The Elite Collection, a prestigious community of Four-and-Five Star hotels and resorts that want to attract - and support - the gay and lesbian traveler is gaining international...
Macklemore: 'Anti-gay Language Has No Place In Music or Sports' DENVER, Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, the duo behind the biggest-selling single of the year, "Thrift Shop," have teamed with the You Can Play Project in its effort to challenge homophobia in sports. The platinum-selling artists filmed a video for You Can Play during the "Icelantic Winter on the Rocks" show earlier this month at Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver. In the...
New York civil rights violation lawyer David Perecman of The Perecman Firm applauds the American Psychiatric Association for revising the classification of transgender individuals. In the newest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, transgender will be considered a “normal human variant” and not a mental illness, a milestone victory for the transgender community. New York, NY (PRWEB) January 02, 2013 December saw a significant advancement in...
Including information on LGBT patients in Electronic Health Records will lead to improved care and reduced health disparities Boston, MA (PRWEB) December 22, 2012 Today, The Institute of Medicine (IOM) of The National Academies released a summary of presentations and discussions from the October 12 IOM workshop Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Collection in Electronic Health Records. The one-day workshop brought together prominent health care organizations, LGBT (lesbian, gay,...
SAN FRANCISCO, WASHINGTON and NEW YORK, Oct. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Straight allies, in large numbers, flex their support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) coworkers, according to the 2012 Out & Equal Workplace Survey. Representing over a fourth (26%) of all U.S. adults, self-identified allies to the LGBT community reported specific ways of expressing that support. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100517/NY06256LOGO) Nearly three-fourths (73%) of...
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to California Governor Jerry Brown's signing of SB 1172, the bill that protects lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth from the dangers of "therapy" intended to change their sexual orientation or gender expression, L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center Chief Executive Officer Lorri L. Jean issued the following statement: "Finally, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth in California will be protected...
Exposure to objects associated with 1 gender make viewers think androgynous face is the opposite gender Spending too much time looking at high heels may influence how a viewer perceives the gender of an androgynous face, according to new research published Sep. 26 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Amir Homayoun Javadi of Technische Universität, Dresden and his colleagues. The study sheds new light on how the objects surrounding us may influence our perceptions of gender. The...
