Angela Gardner is a founding member of The Renaissance Transgender Assoc., Inc., former editor of its newsletter and magazine, Transgender Community News. She was the Diva of Dish for TGF in the late 1990s and Editor of LadyLike magazine until its untimely demise. She has appeared in film and television shows portraying TG characters, as well as representing Renaissance on numerous talk shows.
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars premiers on October 22. To get people excited about the competition the show’s producers have put together a new season featuring queens from all the past seasons. To promote the all stars they have released videos introducing the contestants. Shade will be pitched, lips will be glossed. May the best […]
It’s transgender news from around the world. The dad in England who’s now a mom. The TS who has gotten insurance to cover her SRS. Sahara Davenport is dead at 27. A Canadian MP is outraged at “transgendered men” in the lady’s room. Jesus and drag queens?
From around the world and up your street! The finasteride TG is still in the news. The McDonald’s attacker is caught. Young TGs in England get a visit from the police. Lea T in Milan. Kinky Boots opens in Chicago. “trAnnie” creates conflict down under. Dr. Who in a dress. Drag in Vegas. And more!
We have news of transgender South American teachers. There’s another big flap brewing over Michelle Kosilek. It’s ladyboys on pachyderms in Thailand. A Peacock is a queen in Missouri. A drag queen says she was forced to serve time in the women’s jail. All that and much more is waiting in TWIT.
David de Alba, the last member of Finocchio’s cast of fabulous female impersonators to still be performing, is doing it again this November at The Onyx Theatre in Las Vegas, Nevada. The show happens on November 11 and it is a tribute to Judy Garland. While he was rehearsing for the show David de Alba, […]
A drag performer makes it on to The X Factor. A transwoman in Philadelphia is murdered. Anderson Cooper interviews the person who said an anti=baldness drug made her transgendered. Honey Boo Boo Child may be dueting with RuPaul. An influential critic of poetry is a crossdresser. And more!
This week we’ve got the first official in Vietnam. A former male comic is now a female comic. A convicted murderer wins the right to GRS in jail. There were 13 TG delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Buck Angel starts a FtM dating site. Lana Wachowski speaks about transition. And more!
RuPaul is getting her own comic book. Janet Mock is speaking to a LGBTQ youth conference. The TG delegate to the Democratic National Convention delivers a sermon. One of us has been elected to the Democratic National Committee. Jennifer Leitham is in a movie. Toyota crosses more gender lines. More!
Andrej Pejic has competition on the catwalk. Right wing haters find a new target for their attack ads. Michael Musto reveals the 5 worst types of drag queens. A transman in Virginia is in jail for forgery. He put an “M” on his marriage certificate. Meet Japanese crossdressers. “Real Housewives” keeps it real with a queen.
The TGF staffers spend the week scouring the World Wide Web for anything that remotely resembles TG related news. This week they’ve done it again! There’s news of pageant winning in Canada, TG students getting a break in Philly, and much much more.
Liza was onstage with drag queens. The Affordable Care Act will protect TGs needing healthcare. What’s so bad about a boy in a dress? Sean Bean looks sexy in his dress. Ron Pealman, not so good. Half and half photography from NYC. A host of TWIT Awards and a lot more. It’s what we call TWIT!
Body types and masculine characteristics can definitely handicap your chances at passing as a woman. We can’t all be Marilyn Monroe. Maybe, if we’re honest and assess our faults and pluses, we can learn to be the best woman we can be by working with what we’ve got.
From across the pond and down the road we gather all the transgender related news we can find and we call it The Week In Transgenderism. This week: a play about Lindsay Lohan, Wardrobe freedom at Oxford. The Drag Race All Stars. Chinese crossdressing. Dr. Sherman Leis, and a whole lot more!
A young TG from Ohio has paid over $70,000 to look like Britney Spears. A TG student in England was told to go home and put on a boy’s school uniform. Willam is riled up at a certain chicken chain. There’s a new foreign center for SRS. It’s all in TWIT!
Harisu has a video for her new single release. A movie about hijra is pulling big crowds in India. The Episcopal Church authorizes TG priests. There are more documentaries about TGs. A transwoman wants to be Korea’s next Top Model. How is Doc Severinson connected to the TG world? Find out all about it in TWIT!
Pejic was back on the runway. The Thai TS elected to local government has to wear a male uniform. Argentina has handed out its first ID cards for TGs. A transwoman alleges the D.C. police mistreated her. Harisu makes a comeback, and a lot more in TWIT.
Boob sweat. It’s a problem that hasn’t gotten enough attention. Now that summer is here and boob sweat is causing CD cleavage to slip we look for some solutions to the moisture problem. Fortunately women suffer from boob sweat, too. We found a couple of possible cures.
It’s all the TG news you ever need every week in TWIT. This week there are drag races in New Zealand, a Best Dressed Contest infiltrated by a drag queen, a teen TG prom queen, discrimination by the police in Toronto, Chaz Bono on Degrassi and a whole lot more.
Is that a little old lady or a TV? What’s this about Justin Vivian Bond being a minister? Dr. Christine McGinn is in a movie? Laura Jane Grace speaks. There’s a photo exhibit of Parisian TV prostitutes coming soon. A would-be TV prostitute learns her fate. Conan uses the T word. And more!
It’s The Week In Transgenderism with all the news you need to keep up with the happenings in our transgender world. Sharon Needles gets a day in Pittsburgh. Carmen Carerra gets punked. Foxxjazell raps. April Ashley gets the MBE. And more!
A professor tries transvestite prostitution — he’s caught. Miss Pennsylvania quits the pageant to protest TG contestants. Miss USA is cool with TG contestants. TV Grayson Perry has a TV show about taste. Trans United for Obama is formed. CeCe McDonald is sentenced, and more.
From the Queen of the Whole Universe contest to queens in The Queen City, we’ve got all the TG news that’s fit to put on a monitor. Sit back, relax and read about Drink & Drag, Jessie J dissing TVs, Rugby drag cheerleaders, Christine Jorgensen’s birthday and more!
What’s up with these kids today? The world is upside down when a 14 year old boy from Sweden can plays guitar like Eddie Van Halen and look like a Japanese anime princess. Things have gotten out of hand. Fortunately for us. Meet the beautiful and talented Yohio.
A Texas teen crossdresser will get to graduate in drag. Justice has failed in two cases involving TGs. Chile will provide SRS to all who want it. The Transgender Hall of Fame seeks nominees. A TG themed movie at Cannes. And a whole lot more!
A ruling has been made in the TG demeaning bookie advert. Chrissy Polis is still traumatized. A TG prison guard is flourishing. A former firefighter/stripper is now a drag queen. Jenna loses! Black Madam strikes again. Lea T. has surgery. All that and more in TWIT!
A punk rocker has announced he’s going to be a woman. Argentina is a leader in TG rights. More beauty pageant news. Do crossdressers make safer drivers? Lady Bunny’s early survival job. A fire kills The Puerto Rican Beyonce. Hired and fired all in one day. It’s all in TWIT!
