What Are The Big Gay Stories of 2009?
http://www.queerty.com/what-are-the-big-gay-stories-of-2009-20090102/ It's a brand new year and it's easy to imagine that it stands before us like a bright, shiny tabula rasa full of opportunity and hope. Ha, ha! Just kidding. Your fate's already been sealed and the calendar's marked with a year's worth of fun activities likely to anger, inspire and reshape the face of the gay community. Here's the biggest headlines of the upcoming year, at you today:
Memphis Reaches Out to Transgender Community
With three transgendered women killed in Memphis in one year (the most recent, Leeneshia Edwards was shot and killed Dec. 31st), Memphis realizes that it has to do something to stop the epidemic of violence being committed against homeless transgendered people in their town. The resulting dialogue and decision to create work programs specifically geared towards transgendered people becomes a model used across the country.
