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NEWS ITEM - Police dragnet for cross-dresser....June 14, 2002
A transvestite believed to have stolen uniforms, pepper spray and handcuffs from an Auckland police station may try to pass himself off as a policewoman. Turori Chapman, otherwise known as Ana Williams, is believed to have burgled the Onehunga police station between May 30 and June 3 during renovations. Police spokeswoman Noreen Hegarty said Chapman could have taken enough uniform clothing to pass himself off as a policewoman. Police were particularly concerned that Chapman had taken pepper spray, which he could use in a dangerous or aggressive way. The officer in charge of the search, Detective Senior Sergeant Andy Lovelock, said Chapman had successfully passed himself off as a woman in many guises. Chapman had also presented stolen cheques at banks around town, and was wanted for other offences, including fraud. He is 22 and is described as 170cm tall, of large build and with long dark hair.
NEWS ITEM - Transvestite stabbed a friend to death........13th June 2002
A transvestite stabbed a friend to death within days of finding out he was having an affair with his wife, the Old Bailey heard last week. Malcolm French, 52, who had three months previously left his marital home in Leafy Way, Croydon, fatally stabbed Christopher Loftus, 32, on September 11 last year. On Friday, June 7, a jury heard how mother-of-two Deborah French, 49, developed a relationship with the family friend of six years when he had given her a shoulder to cry on during the split. On September 7 last year her lover took French's place in the home. The last two years of her eight-year marriage had suffered from French's increasingly severe mood swings, Mrs French told the court. She had believed her recent promotion to manager of a residential care home had contributed to the strain, but after leaving her in June last year French confessed he was a transvestite. She told French, a fibre glass moulder, she could not cope with him, and in early September they met in the Cricketers Arms, Addiscombe Road, where Mr French showed signs he had accepted the marriage was over. Mrs French said: "He told me he had taken a women to a Michael Ball concert." She added: "We'd both agreed that it was finished. He said he'd moved on." She told French she had been dating Mr Loftus and her husband soon began a campaign of angry telephone calls, on one occasion threatening to kill himself because he could not cope with the relationship. She told the court how on the day of her lover's death French had turned up unannounced saying he needed to pick up cable for work. She said: "He straddled Chris and hit him in the face." Mrs French said she saw a knife in her husband's hand and that he had ordered her to "shut up and sit down or else he would cut his throat". She sobbed: "Chris said please don't kill me'. He said he wouldn't tell anybody what had happened and I said the same. "He said I'm going to go down for this so I might as well do it properly." In an earlier session the court heard how French, who was seriously injured during the incident, claimed he stabbed Mr Loftus in self defence as they struggled on the lounge floor. French has pleaded not guilty to murder. The trial continues.
NEWS ITEM - Transvestite shot to death..... June 13, 2002
Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina, USA --- A transvestite prostitute involved in a January altercation with an off-duty Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer was found shot to death near uptown late Friday, investigators said. Franklin Freeman, 35, was found lying on the sidewalk at North Church Street and Liddell Street about 10:30 p.m., Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said. Detective Harold Jackson said a motorist called 911 from a nearby pay phone after seeing a person lying by the road. Patrol officers found Freeman, dressed in a black tank top, black skirt and white canvas shoes, bleeding and unconscious. He was pronounced dead at the scene, Jackson said. Freeman was known to work as a prostitute in that area, but Jackson said investigators do not know whether he was working Friday night. He would not say how many times Freeman was shot or if investigators believe he was shot where he was found. Jackson said police had no suspects Saturday. "The only thing that we have is a body," he said. "The victim lived a dangerous lifestyle to begin with. Based on this lifestyle alone, (the shooter) could be any number of people. I'm not saying he was working as a prostitute, but if he was, that alone elevates the risk factor." Freeman was arrested Jan. 8 after he got into a scuffle with Michael Marlow, a vice and narcotics officer at the time. Marlow, who was off duty and in his unmarked police car, told other officers he saw someone waving frantically on the side of North Davidson Street and stopped to help, according to a police report. He said Freeman got into his car uninvited and then the two got in a shoving match. During the ruckus, the officer's car struck a fire hydrant. Investigators later determined that shots were fired inside the police vehicle. Marlow resigned in the midst of an internal affairs investigation. He has since denied wrongdoing and said he quit because of stress and to pursue a different line of work. Freeman, through his attorney, said he was invited into the car. He said the two argued and that's when the driver identified himself as a police officer and fired his gun at least twice. Freeman was charged with assault on a government official and resisting an officer, but the charges were later dropped.
NEWS ITEM - Worlds first Miss Transexual World...... June 12, 2002
Toronto will have first Miss Transexual World competition although there are only six competitors, but the participants of the first Miss Transsexual World competition (Toronto), will be fulfilled tomorrow in Canada. As in all beauty competitions of this type, the six competitors will have to pass a series of tests so that the judges of the event can decide who deserves to be crowned as the queen of the transsexual world. The first test will be a parade in bathing suits. Second it will be the parade in evening wear and the third one the dreaded interview where each participant will have that a subject related with the transsexual world. The fourth test is a photographic session. The only difference with' the other 'beauty competitions is that the 'measurements' of the candidates will not be disclosed before nor during nor after the ceremony.
NEWS ITEM - Transsexual pleads guilty to manslaughter
A transsexual woman from Tennessee who admitted getting $100,000 after helping kill her aunt's husband pleaded guilty to a reduced murder charge and agreed to testify against her aunt. Vonlee Nicole Titlow pleaded guilty Monday in Oakland County Circuit Court to manslaughter and agreed to a sentence of 7-15 years in prison. In exchange for her plea, Titlow said she would testify truthfully against Billie Jean Rogers in her trial on a first-degree murder charge. Titlow agreed not to appeal her conviction or the sentence. Titlow is to be sentenced Dec. 19.
NEWS ITEM - Transgender minister placed on an involuntary leave of absence - June 10, 2002
On Saturday, Bishop Felton Edwin May, head of the Baltimore-Washington conference of the United Methodist Church, told a group of clergy that transgender minister Rebecca Ann Steen has been placed on an involuntary leave of absence. A few days earlier, it appeared that Steen was poised to become the first transgender Methodist minister to take up active duty in the church. But on Thursday, the bishop reported, a complaint was filed against Steen, which is now being investigated. In October 1999, Richard Zamostny took a voluntary leave from Rockville United Methodist Church in Rockville, Md., in order to transition from male to female. Last year at this time, during the annual conference meeting, Steen requested to be reinstated, which is normally an automatic procedure for ministers on voluntary leave. But just as Steen's request began to spark controversy, she withdrew it and chose to remain on leave another year. Nonetheless, the conference organized a series of discussions on the subject of transsexuality in the clergy as a response to the situation. Steen renewed her request this year, and as of the weekend, it appeared that no Methodist rules and regulations stood in her way. In a recent article, the Washington Post reported that May planned to assign Steen to a new position, as per her request. Steen "has voluntarily returned to active service," May said last Thursday. "Therefore, she is available for appointment by July 1." Dean Snyder, communications director for the conference, told the Post that the annual conference itself has no authority over the status of a minister. "If there's any action (by the conference against Steen), the bishop could rule it out of order." But by Saturday, Steen's return to service was indefinitely postponed. According to Methodist law, said the conference Web site, "the names of persons making complaints and the nature of complaints shall be treated in a confidential manner by the bishop." According to a Thursday posting on the Advocate's Web site, the complaint was related to Zamostny's behavior at Weller United in Thurmont, Md., in the mid-1990s. However, Snyder had no knowledge of any problems in Steen's former ministry.
NEWS ITEM - Swedish legislation against hate speech. June 9, 2002
The Swedish parliament has passed legislation that would change the constitution to protect GLBT from hate speech. For the constitutional amendment to take effect, it will need to be passed a second time. The government said it hopes to have the amendment in place next year. Freedom of speech is protected in Sweden except in cases involving hate speech against groups of people because of their race, skin colour, national or ethnic origin or religious faith is banned. The bill adds sexual orientation to that list. Violations are punishable by up to two years in prison. Opponents of the Constitutional amendment say it could be used against religious leaders, especially Muslims reading passages condemning homosexuality from religious texts like the Quran. Sweden leads the world good workable legislation
NEWS ITEM - Sweden Passes Gay Adoption Law. June 9, 2002
The Swedish parliament on Wednesday to let same-sex couples adopt. Gays and lesbians who are in registered partnership unions can be considered joint parents of children of each others children, or children adopted in the country or abroad. A registry for partnership unions has been existence in Sweden since 1995. The Social Democratic-led Swedish government proposed the law after a parliamentary research committee found that gay couples would have the same ability as heterosexuals to care for children.
NEWS ITEM - LGBT Prom success! June 10, 2002
Transgender, gay, lesbian and bi prom is another success. Raiza Rojas is a giddy teenage girl with a classic high school crush on her prom date. Saturday morning, she spent two hours and $25 -- almost half a day's pay from her part-time job at Banana Republic -- having her brown locks styled in a formal up-do. Her borrowed floor-length navy gown sparkled under the glow of her bedroom lights as big sister Cammy helped her slip it over her head without messing up her hair. Raiza anxiously applied mascara, lipstick and blush before tweezing her eyebrows into a perfect arch. "Do I look OK? Because I am so nervous," she said. Just after 6 p.m., her date arrived. But there was no posing for prom pictures with the parents. They don't approve. Raiza's date is Jennifer. The couple was headed to the seventh annual Pridelines Youth Services prom for South Florida gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders ages 13 to 22. This event is for the teens who didn't feel comfortable attending their own school dances. Or if they did go, they didn't go with the date of their choice. "If I had brought a guy with me to my prom, I would have gotten jumped," said Pridelines prom-goer James Trundy, who graduated from Southridge Senior High in 1998 never having attended his senior dance. Others spoke of being called names at their school: Fag. Flamer. Dyke. Lezbo. "Things have gotten a little better, but it can still be unsafe, unsupportive and uncomfortable for them to go to their own prom," said prom chairman Joshua Santiago. "Thus, there's unfortunately still a need for a gay prom." Pridelines, a Miami-based organization that offers a supportive and educational environment for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth, spent $15,000 hosting the seventh annual affair. It drew attendees from Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, but some came from as far away as Sarasota. The ballroom at Wolfson Hall, 137 NE 19th St., was decked out in red and gold tablecloths and balloons. There was a buffet of yellow rice, fried cheese and bread pudding. Couples slow-danced, flirted, cuddled, held hands and kissed. A king and queen were crowned.
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