News Joining - 03/01/2009 by Amanda L Marron Hey everyone! If you are looking to join The Rainbow Connection or know someone who is looking to join, make sure they send me a PM with their member # and I will make sure that they are accepted right away. Brynn has been afk for quite a bit, so to make the process easier just make sure you send it to me. Thanks! New Poems for our Front Page! - 03/01/2009 by Amanda L Marron I have a mission for you all! I'd like everyone to go through the libraries of our members and find some new poems for the front page of our Circle! I'd like to have one from each person if I can. When you find one that you think should be posted, please post the link or the instructions on how to get to it in this post on our forum, http://www.pathetic.org/forumRead.php?c_category=The%20Rainbow%20Connection&i_id=578377 ! Thank you guys! You all rock my socks! victory! - 02/06/2007 by Brynn Dizack hey all, check this out. think it might happen in the states anytime soon? Nepali becomes both man and woman BBC News, Kathmandu The authorities in Nepal have granted a man who dresses and behaves as a woman both male and female citizenship. The unprecedented legal status was given to 40-year-old Chanda Musalman. Conservative and religious Nepal, like many Asian countries, has a sizeable community of people who are born male but behave as women. It is unclear how this unique legal status will play out in practice - for instance, how it will affect Chanda's marriage rights. Constitution With elections approaching, government teams are currently touring the country issuing certificates of citizenship. One team came to Chanda's village in western Nepal. Chanda, who has had no sex-change surgery, asked the officials to erase the words male and female, listed under gender. They obliged, and ascribed Chanda's gender as "both". A local campaign group, the Blue Diamond Society, has thanked the government for the move, which it described as a victory for sexual and gender minorities. In the past the group has accused both the police and the Maoists of harassing transgendered people in the streets of Kathmandu. It is now lobbying to get the rights of sexual minorities explicitly protected in the new constitution, to be drawn up after the elections. See a picture of Chanda and read the full story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/south_asia/6329613.stm The Results Are In! - 01/07/2007 by Amanda L Marron Go check the forums for TRC's first poetry contest winners!!! want to join? - 11/28/2006 by Brynn Dizack if you'd like to join our circle, we are always accepting new members! to make life a little easier, please send me a message that includes your four-digit library number. (this is the number that appears in the URL of your library at the very end. you can copy and paste it from your browser's go-to at the top of the screen.) hope everyone had a happy and healthy thanksgiving, and kudos to amanda for our first contest! lastly, i'll be making my annual holiday mix cd to send to dear friends and family. if anyone would like a copy sent to them, PM me your street address and i will gladly send you a lovely parcel of non-denominational holiday cheer!

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