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.
David de Alba is excited and preparing for his next appearance at The Onyx Theater next month. He has some advice on purchasing your tickets and he did an interview with a Las Vegas paper about his mother that ran just before Mother’s Day. Get the scoop on what he’s up to.
Photo 1: The male cast members of The Big Bang Theory dressed as their favorite female superheros. Photo 2: David Spade. Photo 3: James Franco. Photo 4: John Cameron Mitchell as Hedwig. Photo 5: Super model Andrej Pejic. She doesn’t really belong here but we couldn’t resist. Photo 6: Rupert Everret. Photo 7: Ving Rhames. […]
A Spice Girl and a drag queen are making beautiful music together. Drag sells Tupperware. A Puerto Rican queen is cooking healthy. A FtM student teacher is tossed out and the school may pay. CeCe pleads guilty. A transwoman is killed in Oakland. It’s all in TWIT.
From far Thailand and Singapore to San Francisco, Memphis, and the high seas — we’ve gathered the transgender news from around the world and present it for you in the column we call The Week In Transgenderism. TG porn stars on campus, ladyboy knife fights, drag on The Mentalist, and lots more!
Has Jenna Talachov unleashed a flood of TGs who want to compete in Miss Universe? What does Bill O’Reilly have against a little drag on “Glee”? Will a new bar in Las Vegas really be the first all drag staffed watering hole? Will Matt Lucas make a good Divine? And what’s all this about Chevalier D’Eon? Check your TWIT!
Our attention was captured by Glee last week when we learned that the show introduced a TG character. Unique is her name and she made her debut performing the song “Boogie Shoes.” Unique and her male persona Wade, are portrayed by Alex Newell. Watch her performance in a video clip.
A-Rod stepping from the baseball diamond into a gown and diamond earrings? Competing in beauty pageants — a win for TGs? Kate Bornstein is content with ambiguity. An Angolan TS does techno rap. Osbourne and Pejic share award. RuPaul seeks queens for next season. All that and more in TWIT.
We always encourage our readers to not worry about passing when they’re out in public. It’s about time the crowd got used to seeing crossdressers going about their business like everyone else. But there are still those among us who worry about what people think. For them and for those who just wish to improve their femme presentation we offer passing tips.
New flash! From around the world and down your street we bring you The Week In Transgenderism. Malaysia bans TS characters from the airwaves. The Canadian TG may participate in the pageant. A married couple in Minnesota beat their insurance fund. Iceland is not that safe for TGs, and a lot more in TWIT!
Charles Barkley has done a new ad for Weight Watchers — in drag. New York City has been instructed to make new birth certificates easier to get for TS people. There’s a list of the top 10 TG models. Music teacher by day — performer by night loses the teaching job. Alexia Rivera passes away. And a lot more in TWIT!
Dame Edma Everage has made a big announcement! The Canadian Miss Universe pageant has booted a TG contestant. Right wing conservatives fear a TG Darth Vader. A TG woman runs for the legislature in Nevada. A transman runs for Council in NYC. Firemen spray their hoses on a fire while in drag.
We bring you the fabulous Coccinelle! This is a video clip from a film featuring the legendary French performer in an Italian film from 1959. While America drove around in big cars eating burgers and drinking shakes Europe was applauding Coccinelle. Step back to Europe 1959 and join the fun.
In the dark days of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s there was no easily available online services that provided information, networking and chat for members of the transgender community. Realizing there was a need to be filled JoAnn Roberts took action to provide both real life and online support.
David de Alba shares some vintage photos of female impersonator Holly White working in Morocco around the year 1964. View the photos and use a link to visit David’s site where he has an interview with Ms. White.
Barack Obama had a nanny who was transgendered? Yes but she was a “manny” when she was at work. Ron Perlman stars in a film as a TG woman. Huh? RuPaul throws a diva fit downunder. A high school student is suspended for wearing beige pumps to class. Didn’t they match his bag? It’s all in TWIT!
Susan Stanton is back at work, but not as City Manager. A TG student in Canada “spooks” the Governor General. ICE is chilling on treatment of TG detainees. Whatever happened to The Lady Chablis? Ebony Magazine features black TGs in their March issue. And more!
From Rio to Exeter, we cross the planet and back to bring you all the TG news. Drag pageants in Iowa, anti-discrimination bills in Maryland. Kinky Boots in Chicago, TG scam artists in England. It’s all grist for the TWIT mill.
It’s TWIT — The Week In Transgenderism. We bring you links to all the news, well most of the news, about TGs from around the world. Raquel Welch thinks Mae West was a drag queen. A FtM murderer in 1920s Australia. And more!
Legendary transsexual performer Coccinelle is often talked about and written about. Now, thanks to David de Alba, we have a glimpse of her performing on film in the 1960s. She dances and sings in this clip.
During the week of Whitney Houston’s funeral the performers from The WayOut Club do a tribute performance to celebrate her influence on drag performers around the world.
Another TG murder victim in our nation’s capital. Police have a suspect in custody. Conservatives fight a TG rights bill in Maryland. Andrej Pejic talks about his/her love life. Scotland — hotbed of drag performers. RuPaul makes ratings history. All that and more is in TWIT.
Could you produce a fabulous party for TGs every Saturday night for 18 years? One woman has done it and she’s made The WayOut Club the hottest party for TGs in London, England — maybe in the world. We chat with WayOut promoter Vicky Lee.
Drag and rock music go hand in hand. Little Richard! Marc Bolan’s androgynous look. David Bowie’s glam. Since those days gender bending and drag have featured in videos by everyone from Queen to Weezer. Now there’s “Andrew in Drag.”
The tampon ad controversy from down under drags on. There’s a new transvestite comic in town. If you’re a TG in Canada maybe you should forget about flying if your presentation doesn’t match your documentation. A TG girl is Germany may be locked up cause her dad can’t accept her. More in TWIT!
The Week In Transgenderism has it all this week. We cover the TG beat with stories on Drag Dance Classes in the U.K., the winner of the Miss’d America Pageant, inmates suing over body hair, Snooki with out her war paint, the rise of drag in the Holy Land, and more. Don’t miss your TWIT!
He was America’s female impersonation sweetheart. Vaudeville, theater, popular music, and silent films where all playgrounds for a man who started in career in dresses at the age of ten. But then came the talking picture and his career declined. Did the talkies ruin Julian Eltinge?
