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.
With the actors and writers on strike it has gotten difficult to find trans actor news to report. Angela managed to dig up some things. There’s Elliot Page’s new movie, a trans man in Netflix’s hit One Piece, and male actress Charles Busch publishes his memoir.
TransTainment brings you news regarding transgender performers in plays, films, and onstage entertaining. Today what did Dylan Mulvaney say when she accepted an award? Trace Lysette gets praised. An artist creates a portrait series titled “The Grand Drag Legacy of Southeastern Minnesota”. A Polish film about a trans woman character goes to the Venice Film Festival. Aurora Gayheart is Miss New Mexico Gay Rodeo Association 2023.
Trans in entertainment and the arts? We call that TransTainment! Today a drag queen has the number 1 album on iTunes Christian chart. Six queens will have shows in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Tony winner Alex Newell advises “be unabashedly yourself.” Former wrestler Gabbi Tuft visits the W.W.E. Smackdown. Another Drag Race alumni comes out as trans. News about trans projects from India, and a bit more can be found in this edition of TransTainment.
It’s Transgender in Film and Video! Rebecca Romijn says she wouldn’t be cast as a trans character today like she was in Ugly Betty. A trans actress from Columbia is cast after just one audition in the Prime Video movie Los Iniciados. Inky Pinky Ponky is a queer Polynesian love story written and starring transgender actress/director Amanaki Prescott-Faletau. Evangelicals have a problem with Barbie. An Indian actor known for his tough guy roles slips into a sari and glamor makeup to portray a trans woman. It’s chaos on the set of Celebrity Family Feud as Willam Belli pulls a banana out of her wig and shocks host Steve Harvey. The original crew of queens on We’re Here aren’t there anymore. Don’t miss the trans entertainment news!
TrantTainment is all about transgender people in the entertainment biz. Today we have news on a grant recipient who has to write a nonbinary play. Anohini and the Johnsons have a new album. A Casa Susanna documentary airs on PBS and is now available for streaming. Drag King Murray Hill hosts a television show. Drag Race Allstar winner Monét X Change will perform at Scotland’s Fringe Festival. Artist inventor and “gender hacker”Pippa Garner has her first U.S. solo museum show. All that and more is waiting for you to view.
Time for the news about all things trans in film and video. Today we meet a transgender character in a Star Wars series, get info on the so-called documentaries that are actually anti-trans propaganda, and more.
Kim Petras teams up with Paris Hilton for a redo of Hilton’s 15-year-old hit song. A musical version of Transparent debuts in L.A.. Does the new Spider-Man movie have a trans character? Trap rapper Lil Wop comes out as a trans woman. British singer Princess Alice Manor drops a heavy metal single. Michigan musician Baddie Brooks releases her debut album. Archie Comics adds a trans woman character and a graphic novel tells the story of a drag queen assassin. Get all the news from the entertainment world from TransTainment.
Hollywood calling! It’s all the news from Lala Land in one place! Today we feature Jinkx Monsoon, now appearing in a Prime Video comedy special. Trace Lysette is making waves for her role in Monica. Florida’s first ever transgender homecoming queen is the star of a short documentary film. Learn about eight young trans actresses who are getting critical acclaim. And there’s more!
Trace Lysette is a rising transgender star getting great reviews for her work in the film Monica. She plays the title character, a trans woman who reunites, and cautiously makes peace with the family she fled, as they take care of their ailing mother (played by Patricia Clarkson), who at first doesn’t recognize her daughter. […]
Trans in Film & Video is all about trans actors appearing in film and TV shows. Today it’s trans male Morgan Davies in Evil Dead Rise, Zoe Terakes in Marvel’s Ironheart, Bilal Baig the creator of Sort Of, Juliana Joel and the backlash that happened when she was cast in Raven’s Home, and Liv Bryant in an episode of ABC’s Will Trent. Ready, lights, camera, action!
It’s TransTainment time! Drag queens are doing shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Jinkx Monsoon, fresh off her role in Chicago joins the cast of Doctor Who. And we have video of her singing a song from Chicago. Drag icon Heklina passes away. A trans woman’s picture on beer cans makes right wing drinkers shoot their beer. The Drag Race cast performs a song titled Wigloose. All that and more is waiting for you in TransTainment!
Wherever trans people are depicted on screen Angela Gardner finds them and lets you know in Trans in Film & Video. Today she has news of a couple of documentaries, an Amazon series starring Laverne Cox, the Sundance Institute’s list of the nine best films by transgender filmmakers, and more!
TransTainment is here! What’s going on with transgender people in entertainment? The Tennessee anti-drag legislation could affect legit stage shows like Kinky Boots or Some Like It Hot. Country stars gather to give a concert supporting trans people in Tennessee. Drew Barrymore and Dylan Mulvaney exchange tips on how to deal with online haters. An eight-year-old Spanish actress wins an award for playing a trans girl. Panti Bliss is on Ireland’s Dancing With the Stars. And more!
Elliot Page gets a scent ad. Geena Rocero joins the SeeHer advisory board. An award winning transgender novel has been optioned for filming. Can you guess the transgender character who was in the 1979 film Alien? There’s all that and more in this month’s Trans in Film and Video.
What’s TransTainment? Trans people in the entertainment business, transgender themes in film, TV and stage productions. Today we look at a trans DJ who was part of the Grammy Awards. Michaela Jaé Rodriguez becomes a beauty muse. A couple of films, one a documentary on Black sex workers, and the other a short from Norway about a trans woman menaced on a night time bus ride. There’s all that and more in TransTainmnt!
Trans in Film and Video reports on transgender actors and projects with transgender themes, Today we look at Eddie Redmayne’s mea culpa over portraying a trans woman character, Michaela MJ Rodriguez gets her standing ovation, Tommy Dorfman talks about the stress of presenting as male, trans actresses in New Zealand and India are recognized, trans sex workers are the subjects of documentaries, and more! Don’t miss this edition of Trans in Film and Video.
Welcome to TransTainment! Ian McKellen plays Mother Goose in Britain. The Cuban Legend, David de Alba brings his “If I Can Turn Back Time” show to Las Vegas. Who is the latest Drag Race performer to appear on Broadway? Another Drag Race alumna comes out as transgender. Find out who in this edition of TransTainment!
From a transgender voice actress dubbing an anime character into English for the US market, to a short film that uses comedy elements to focus on the trans experience, and a return to the talks shows of the 1950s where the guests being interviewed are actual people from that era, we present Trans in Film and Video.
What are transgender entertainers working on? Films, television shows, plays and more. TransTainment tells you about some of the projects that include transgender entertainers.
What’s the news about trans visibility in film and video? Eddie Izzard talks about her one woman show on Late Night with Steven Colbert. There’s no joy in Joyland after the Pakistani government bans showings of the film. Elliot Page has written a book that will be out next year. NBC produces a short-form documentary on a trans child and his family as they experience government oppression in Texas. Nicole Maines is in a Hulu movie titled Darby and the Dead. Check it out in Transgender in Film and Video.
Lights! Camera! Action! It’s another glittering glamorus production of Trans Tainment! Today with several stories about Broadway shows, some new music from a Canadian queen, and a singer/songwriter from Ghana. Also the return of a long lost documentary on Spanish sex workers in 1983. Check it all out in TransTainment.
The controversy over Jordan Gray’s naked closing act on live TV in Britain continues, with more details on the incident. The Singapore International Film Festival features Baby Queen, the story of a prominent drag performer in Singapore. The film about India’s first transgender cab driver wins more awards. A Two Spirit indigenous teen is documented in a film titled Being Thunder. There’s that and more in Trans in Film and Video.
Every month Angela Gardner searches the web for stories of transgender people active in the arts and entertainment. We call what she produces TransTainment. Today she has news about an ongoing role for Alexandra Billings in a SF television show, kudos to Sam Smith and Kim Petra on being number one, and more news from the world of transgender entertainment.
The Henri David Halloween Ball 2022 happened on Sunday night October 30. The event has been going since 1975, overseen by the Halloween Impresario, Henry David. We present a selection of photos from the event featuring everything from demons to angels, transgender maids to Marie Antoinette. You can find anything at a Henri David Halloween Ball.
Drag Race stars star in a Hocus Pocus-inspired Halloween parody show. Ava Grey’s work on Atlanta received acclaim for her performance as Lorraine. Timothée Chalamet is being lauded as a style icon. Joyland is chosen to represent Pakistan for the 95th Academy Awards in the ‘International Feature Film’ category. And that’s just a bit of the news about transgender people in film and video.
