Olympic Torch Relay Halted
What was supposed to be a majestic procession for the Olympic torch through the French capital turned into chaos Monday as thousands of people from around Europe, many with Tibetan flags, massed to protest the passage of the flame. The torch went out several times, and police officers had to put it onto a bus […]
Saudi woman killed for chatting on Facebook
A young Saudi Arabian woman was murdered by her father for chatting on the social network site Facebook, it has emerged.
The unnamed woman from Riyadh was beaten and shot after she was discovered in the middle of an online conversation with a man, the Al-Arabiya website reported.
The case was reported on a Saudi Arabian news […]
Madonna breaks Elvis’ Billboard record
Elvis Presley will be nudged from his standing as the artist with the most top 10s in the rock era, as Madonna surpasses him with her 37th top 10, ‘4 Minutes.’ The track, which features Justin Timberlake. Visit the US version of Elle magazine to read the interview with Madonna and Simon Doonan where she […]
Letterman’s not so funny top 10 list
Talk show host David Letterman called Thomas Beatie, the trans man who is 5 month pregnant, an “androgynous freak show” during his CBS Late Night show “Top Ten List” Tuesday night. We aren’t laughing.
Is society ready for this pregnant husband?
Thomas Beatie, of Bend, Oregon, who was a woman prior to his operation, has published a first-person account of his pregnancy in the April 8 issue of gay publication The Advocate.
“Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire, but a human desire,” he writes.
Beatie was formerly a lesbian who underwent […]
