TS/TV/CD/LGBT News and opinion from around the world for Monday June 7th 2010

"The officers on these committees see it as legitimate work," she said. "But many of them said there was a perception that community outreach was seen by their colleagues as fluff work."

Nurses asked her to undress herself and stand alongside other to-be military servicemen, Su said. Frightened, she refused to do so, and asked to be examined in a private room, she continued.

About 100 to 125 men, women and children gathered Sunday afternoon at Chenango Valley State Park in the Town of Fenton for the group's second annual LGBTQ community picnic. "This year, we really tried to theme it toward families," said Lauren Hering, one of the Binghamton Pride organizers.

The duty manager is alleged to have refused them service and said that had he known they were a gay group he would not have accepted their booking. Punch Taverns, which owns the pub, has launched an investigation.

"When I first came to Ottawa, I knew of four people who were American war resisters. Since then, one guy turned himself in and got let out from prison early because of his certain situation. Another has gone underground. The guy I came with has gone also underground," says James.

Christine socially transitioned and detransitioned in a workplace where her wife (and later ex-wife) worked, and she did her transition in a fishbowl. I can't imagine the stresses in that workplace environment -- where even one of Christine's family issues were playing out in front of her coworkers. I know that had been my work situation as a transitioning, bipolar woman -- well, I don't work anymore just what with I was going through. The loss of relationship with her wife, the problems she had with her mother, and an incredibly uncomfortable work environment -- combined too with how, as the GQ article pointed out -- how trans community members were unhappy that she wasn't the icon that they had dreamt of...

That giddy, golden summer of 2007 faded as the reality of being a midlife transwoman, single and lonely, set in: the stares as you pass on the street, the department-store salesgirls who whispered to one another as though you were deaf, the jarring site of a stubbornly rugged jaw in the rearview mirror." Hass goes on to trace the sad spiral of Daniels's descent into depression and eventual decision to pull the plug on her transition. By the fall of 2008, the man who'd been Christine Daniels was once again living and writing as Mike Penner. A little over a year later, on November 27, 2009, Penner took his own life.