Cambridge swears in nation&#39;s first transsexual mayor
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A female councillor who was born a man and fathered two children has been sworn in as Britain&#39;s first transsexual mayor.
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Spain allows transsexuals who have not had a sex change to alter their gender on their official documents.
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The mayor of Pitcairn Island, Steve Christian, leaves court in Adamstown after being convicted on five counts of rape. Photograph: AP.
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I&#8217;m not sure if this is a mixed metaphor, but Harvard and the mayor of New York have gone logrolling in the trans-fat cascade. The Harvard School of Public Health announced that it&#8217;s giving its highest honor, the Julius B. Richmond Award, to Mayor Michael Bloomberg for demonstrating &#8220;extraordinary leadership in protecting and promoting the [...].
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Pitcairn Island selects its first woman mayor in its 214-year history after its former mayor - a convicted rapist - was sacked last week.
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NEW YORK Gene Robinson says he&#39;s sorry. But he&#39;s not sorry the Episcopal church made him a bishop. Robinson is bishop of New Hampshire, the first openly gay bishop in the 77 (m) million member Anglican communion.
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A political compromise to save the job of the new European Commissioner who thinks homosexuality is a sin was put to Euro MPs in Brussels today.
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The City Commission voted to begin the process of firing a top official less than a week after he announced plans to pursue a sex-change operation.
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A transgender United Methodist minister will be reappointed to lead his congregation in Baltimore, church officials announced Thursday at a regional convocation.
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The mayor of the tiny UK Pacific colony of Pitcairn has pleaded not guilty to sex abuse charges, reports say. Steve Christian was the first of seven men to appear in a trial highlighting a local culture of underage sex.
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DC's former mayor takes a new role in government
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By Liz F. Kay, The Baltimore Sun  May 26--Local United Methodist clergy are asking for a judicial opinion from the denomination's highest legal authority on Bishop John R. Schol's decision to reappoint a transgender pastor to a Charles Village congregation.
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Mayor Sheila Dixon appears poised for an easy victory in Baltimore's Democratic mayoral primary, which would assure her of serving a full four-year term as the city's first female elected mayor.
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Poland's capital is set to get its first woman mayor, liberal Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, after voters in weekend municipal elections dealt a symbolic blow to the conservative government of identical twins Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, final results showed.
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Drew Gilpin Faust, a historian, would be the first female president in Harvard's 371-year history.
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&quot;A giant leap for television, a small step in high heels,&quot; the presenter promised, unveiling France&#39;s first gay television station which aims to make gay culture mainstream and marks a new climate of tolerance in Roman Catholic France.
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An Argentine court says a 17-year-old male transsexual can have a sex change in a landmark ruling.