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.
We scour the world for all the TG news we can find and present it in TWIT. This week we cover the ladyboy flight attendants first trip, fill you in on the hoopla surrounding the Massachusetts TG rights bill signing, reveal a CD in the Kardasian house, and a lot more.
Nikki Araquz is in more legal trouble. Chris Crocker — the “Leave Britney Alone!” YouTube star causes a stir by getting butch. What do Girl Scout Cookies have to do with Bobby Montoya? Tennessee has gender police? RuPaul is cool with the T word. More in TWIT!
It’s all the transgender news we could find ! We’ve got the story about the film director who felt up his TG niece at the gym. There’s news of RuPaul throwing her wig into the Presidential race. Aussie queen Courtney Act is making it in Hollywood. Atlantic City is marketing to GLBT people — and more!
The ABC crossdressing sitcom his the air last week and reviewers and critics have universally panned it. Angela Gardner forced herself to watch the whole premier. She has recovered enough, with the help of a good therapist, to give TGF readers a review.
Israel has it’s own pregnant man. No, wait. He gave birth. Meet TS roller derby star Kayley Whalen. A TG supermodel takes to the jungle. Manila Luzon or Drag Race fame does a makeover video for New Year’s Eve. Eddie Izzard learns to say aarggh. And more in TWIT.
Chaz Bono is not having a good holiday season. Work It, the ABC crossdressing sitcom, is getting GLBT organizations all worked up — and it hasn’t even aired yet. Glen Close stars in a film as Albert Nobbs. The Cook County Jail now has a TG policy. All that and tons more in the last TWIT of 2011!
Chrissy Polis is fighting her arrest for disorderly conduct. ABC is getting flack for it crossdressing comedy. Andrej Pejic has a new gig. An airline has hired TG flight attendants. The Detroit TG teen murder wasn’t a hate crime. The Tasered TG in California is fighting the charges against her. All that and more in TWIT.
It’s The Week In Transgenderism! Nikki Araguz is sentenced for theft. A British TS is a real life Barbie. Chrissy Lee Polis, the McDonald’s beating victim reports a stolen purse and is arrested for disturbing the peace. All that and more is in TWIT!
An FtM in Texas wins his case. Lea T is on the cover of Brazilian Elle. American Samoa wins for the first time ever with a TG team member. Khloe Kardashian, the moody one, attacks a trans woman. Neil Patrick Harris used the T word. Boy George has turned 50. It’s all in TWIT!
TGForum has been on the Web for a long while and in that time we have been blessed with a variety of creative content producers. People like Pamela DeGroff and Hebe Dotson have typed their manicures to the bone to give us great articles, and in Hebe’s case, solid TG fiction. Contributions from them and […]
Important news about TGForum ad best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving are both in this post from Editor Angela Gardner. There have been some changes made to TGF and there are more on the way. There is need of your input, so there’s a survey to take.
We begin our fresh content with The Week In Transgenderism. We search out all the stories and articles with a hint of TG-ness about them and put them all on one page for your convenience. We’ve got the actor who played the male nightclub owner in La Cage on Broadway who’s now playing Albin opposite […]
It has been a long week since last we published new content. So many things have gone on; how will we ever report on them all? Ah well, it’s the Internet so we can take as much room as we need. We start out today, as always, with our distillation of the TG news that […]
It’s the biggest Halloween party on the east coast. It’s being happening every year since 1968. It brings out drag queens, fetishists, crossdressers and straight people who like to wear strange costumes. It’s The Henry David Halloween Ball.
Even though most everyone has celebrated Halloween this past Saturday today is actually Halloween. As you all know, Halloween is a holy day of obligation for crossdressers. It’s the one time of the year you can step out of the house in a sexy nurse outfit and be able to say to anyone who questions […]
MtF crossdressers often love to strut their stuff in the sexiest fashions. Who doesn’t love a mid-thigh mini dress with spaghetti straps and a plunging neckline? Same goes for those skyscraper heels the hot girls are wearing. We all love to look sexy and hot, and feel sexy and hot when we slip into those […]
“Home For the Holidays” to Raise Awareness About LGBT Youth Homelessness October 26, 2011 [NEW YORK] – Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors Fund today announced a star-studded benefit concert on December 4th at New York City’s historic Beacon Theatre to help raise awareness about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth homelessness. “Home for the Holidays,” presented by […]
We’ve gone and added new content to TGForum! It’s our regular Monday Edition of new stuff to entertain, inform and provoke our loyal readers. We begin today with an important message from our exalted leader . . . I mean our publisher, Miss JoAnn Roberts. As science fiction writer Robert Heinlein once wrote, “There ain’t […]
One of the major disadvantages of doing a weekly publication like TGForum is that every publication day that passes seems like the sand in the hourglass, in the days of our lives. Seriously, you stop to check the date and find that most of the year is gone. October 17 already? Every Monday we get […]
Washington, D.C. — After four years of service, the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) is saying goodbye to their friend and colleague Stephanie White, NCTE’s Managing Director. Before joining NCTE, Stephanie White served as the National Field Director and then Deputy Director of the Rights Working Group, an immigrant rights advocacy organization. Stephanie will […]
You know we do. Every Monday we bring you the finest transgender news, information and opinion that we can gather. It’s the TGForum Monday Edition and it’s ready for you right now. We begin with The Week In Transgenderism, our distillation of all the transgender news floating around on the Web. We condense, introduce and […]
The Philly Trans March happened this past Saturday, October 8. Trans people and allies from all over the Philadelphia Pennsylvania region came to celebrate trans identities and advocate for transgender rights in the heart of downtown Philadelphia. We took photos and here they are.
Last month David de Alba performed his “Finocchio’s Backstage Memior”s at The Onyx Theatre in Las Vegas. David has kindly sent us photos to share from that performance, and he has also set up a YouTube channel and we present a video of David performing in the show.
Another Monday and another day when we update the on going process we call Transgender Forum. We begin with our condensation of all the trans news of the world — The Week In Transgenderism. Our army of top-notch researchers has overloaded the Google and Bing search engines to dig out all the trans news from […]
In her many years in heels Angela Gardner has been around the block a few times, and somewhere on the block there has been someone who had to mention that she was a he. How many times and in how many ways has Angela been “read”? Hard to say but here are just a few of the ways.
It’s another Monday and like the hardworking TG journalists, commentators and bloggers we are we have assembled another edition of TGForum for your edification and amusement. We could have been watching Boardwalk Empire and sipping a glass of wine but no. We were locked in our office suite at TGF Tower burning the ten o’clock […]
