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Best gay sports stories of 2010

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Johnny Weir at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver

I begin this year’s best of roundups with an unlikely choice: sports. I’m not sure if I’m bucking the stereotype or playing along with it but qPDX has never been particularly strong in our sports coverage (that’s an understatement girl…) but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some really important stories that emerged in the world of gay sports. And even I was pretty glued to the screen for the Winter Olympics, being virtually blinded by Johnny Weir’s sequined outfits.

So begins the countdowns, mostly the top 5 news and arts stories, although I could only narrow the top 10 when it came to music. And you get 2 each day all week long!

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Written by || Mon, Jan 3rd 2011 at 09:07 AM || Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , || Category: Jock || 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Let’s talk about the man with 2 sex changes

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Charles Kane now with his fiance

I may be part of the sensationalizing media for even mentioning the story of the man who had sex reassignment surgery once to become a woman and then again to regain his manhood, but I can’t help but comment on his assertion that they should be banned because those who want a sex change are “completely deluded.” Unfortunately, I think it is Mr. Kane (formerly Ms. Kane and Mr. Hashimi) who is misguided.

In the 1980s a one Sam Hashimi, a powerful investment fund type, had a sex-change procedure to become “glamorous interior designer Samantha Kane,” a woman so convincing he says he had no problem attracting men.

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Written by || Wed, Nov 10th 2010 at 09:48 AM || Tags: , , , , , , , , , || Category: Gossip & Celebs, Nat'l / Int'l News || Comments are closed

Hullabaloo surrounding the appointment of a transwoman to Obama’s cabinet

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Amanda Simpson

Amanda Simpson is being called the first America’s first openly transgender presidential appointee in the the job she starts Tuesday as the Senior Technical Advisor in U.S. Commerce Department.

Reluctant to be the first, Simpson knew there would be issues, despite her exceptional qualifications for the job. And indeed, anti-gay leader Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans For Truth, asked, “Is there going to be a transgender quota now in the Obama administration? “How far does this politics of gay and transgender activism go? Clearly this is an administration that is pandering to the gay lobby.”

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Written by || Fri, Jan 8th 2010 at 05:03 PM || Tags: , , , , , , || Category: Nat'l / Int'l News, Politics & Activism, TV, Video || Comments are closed