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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.
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Ready for the transgender entertainment news? How about Laverne Cox dancing in her Gucci lingerie? The newest Jeopardy! champion is a trans woman from Oakland. Alaska Thunderf**k 5000 has written a book. Will her full name be on the cover? Pornhub has a trans woman adult actress as a brand ambassador. A management company for transgender actors is going strong, and there’s new music from Trace Lysette and Chanel Jole. Be sure you get all your transgender entertainment needs met.
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Today in Transgender in Film and Video we meet 19-year-old transgender actress Andrea Foret. We have the trailer from a French film is which a young man wants to become Miss France. News about I Am Jazz coming back for another season. The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival. And more!
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Angela Gardner took her Kool Pix camera to Henri David’s Live for real Halloween Ball on October 30. While turnout was lighter than past Balls held on Saturday night there were still plenty of fab costumes to view. Angela took a pile of photos and got some more from Kristen Nichols, the leader of Renaissance. Thanks also to Kalina Isato (a.k.a. Clare Din) and Lynda Martini for the photos they contributed.
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We bring you news about all the transgender, nonbinary people in the arts and entertainment in our feature TransTainment. Today there’s news about bad feelings between Billy Porter and Harry Styles over Harry’s Vogue fashion shoot, the Sundance Institute has a new program for trans people of color, a trans actress works for the empowerment of transgender persons in India, and much more!
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News from that world of film and video that features transgender people, themes, and plots is what we cover in Transgender Film & Video. Today news about Jamie Clayton, Bretman Rock wears the ears, Angelica Ross, and more!
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If you register on TGForum to take advantage of the extras that come when you login–you must be sure to activate your account by verifying your email address. When you submit your registration form the site generates an email to the address you put in the email field of the form. You must respond to […]
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TransTainment covers the world of the arts and entertainment! We find all the news that’s out there featuring transgender people and characters, from artists to actors, musicians to drag queens. You’ll find them all in TransTainment! Today news about Nicole Maines, Jamie Clayton, the Bushwig festival, and more!
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Another talent agency dedicated to repping transgender talent opens its doors. A wedding jewelry ad from India stars a transgender woman as the bride to be. Demi Lovato goes on a search for space aliens in a mini series. Nicole Maines voices a trans character in the video game Rainbow Siege. Pose wins a couple of awards and Billy Porter is the Fab G in Cinderella.
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It’s time for TransTainment! News about transgender people participating in the arts and entertainment around the world. From Kim Petras’s new song and record deal to a 17-year-old trans girl who owns her own film production company, you’ll find it all in TransTainment.
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Mj Rodriguez in nominated for an Emmy! Carmen Carrera wants more roles for transgender actors. Josie Totah and Zión Moreno have roles in reboots of older shows and their characters just happen to be trans. Does Loki in the show of the same name have transgender tendencies? Spike Lee uses trans actors in a promotional spot for bitcoin.
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Our Retro Rerun today is from March of 1999. It was written by TGForum subscriber Stephanie K. Thomas after Ms. Thomas attended her first major transgender event, Fall Harvest in Minneapolis in November of 1998. Stephanie learned a couple of things at that event. For one thing she found she loved to dance the night away as Stephanie, and two, she realized that all her life she had needed to know the gender of anyone she interacted with. After meeting a variety of gender and sexual identities at the Fall Harvest she decided to abandon that position.
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Time for another look at transgender people in the arts and entertainment! Those starring in today’s production include the new Miss Nevada, a version of The Brady Bunch that puts drag queens in the show, Mj Rodriquez sings, India’s first transgender model wants to act, and the TRANScendent Sounds Festival 2021 is online for your your viewing and listening pleasure. Don’t miss all the TransTainment news!
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Katie Ward, a member of the TransCentralPA support group and one of the many women who put effort into producing the annual Keystone Conference, passed away in June. Her friend Jennifer Latham wrote the following tribute to Katie and has allowed us to share it here. My good friend Katie Ward, passed away on Monday, […]
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Back in the early days of TGForum Cindy Martin would put together pictorials of photos TG users sent in. (Side note: We’re working on a way to bring back the pictorials with 21st century tech.) This pictorial is from 1999 and it’s titled Friends. See if you can spot the current TGForum editor and a contributor among the friends pictured.
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Just a short time ago there was very little representation of trans women in television shows and films. When there was a trans character the role was often played by either a cisgender male actor or a cisgender woman. Casting people said there weren’t any trans actresses so they had to cast cisgender actors. All that has been changing and now there are many trans actresses, some very well known, who can take these roles. Here is a photo gallery of just a few of them.
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Time for TransTainment! Our roundup of all the entertainment news featuring transgender people. Today there’s news about Josie Totah from Saved by the Bell. The Nickelodeon show Danger Force adds a trans actor. Sweden introduces a television show set in a drag club. A former top model and noted actress comes out as queer and nonbinary. Bretman Rock says he’s no beauty guru. And a couple of stories on Laverne Cox round out our blog today.
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TransTainment is our look at transgender people in the arts and entertainment. Today we meet Leyna Bloom who stars in Port Authority, Patti Harrison from Together Together, Jasmine Davis from the Showtime series The Chi, and Yasmin Finney who will star in Billy Porter’s directorial debut. And we reveal which trans woman will be the face of Dior in China. It’s all in TransTainment!
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Just a few years ago it was big news when a fashion model came out as transgender. These days it is decidedly not so rare. While Lea T and Andreja Pejic were novel and daring there are now many trans women walking the runways at Paris and New York fashion shows, as well as gracing the pages of fashion magazines, and even some men’s magazines. Here are 21 of today’s top transgender models
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Drag in Cinema changes with the times and becomes Transgender Film and Video. Today we look back at male actors playing female roles in the silent era and explore a modern film with a transgender actress portraying a transgender role, and a male playing a trans part.
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How many of us were inspired to try on women’s clothing when we saw a rock star dressed up in drag? How about David Bowie in the video for Boys Keep Swinging? Seeing a male rocker or pop singer rocking a dress and heels isn’t as hard these days. Whether on stage or doing it for fun here are 28 male musicians dolling up.
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In the June 8, 2020 TWIT news post (The Week In Trans) our news compiler Cecilia Barzyk included a story from Pink News concerning a person known as Fred Sargeant. The Pink News story alleged Mr. Sargeant had lied about his role in the 1968 Stonewall Riots. Based on the Pink News story, written by […]
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Transtainment brings you news about transgender people and themes in the arts and entertainment. Today we look at Elliot Page and his great relief after coming out as a dude. Pixar is searching for a young actor who can be the voice of a transgender teen girl character for an upcoming production. Singer/songwriter Ezra Furman comes out as a trans woman. There’s a trans character on an ABC drama. One of the Backstreet Boys drop a track in praise of transgender women, and that’s not all. Give Transtainment a read to stay informed about the trans entertainment scene.
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It’s Drag in Cinema & TV, Plus More! After the text about several male actors playing trans and drag characters (Agent Coulson is that you?) in films from many different years we have a photo gallery of famous actors in character for a film role, or just hanging around in a dress, or skirt. We see you Vin Diesel.
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Alice Novic was a TGForum member back in 1999 when she became the subject of a TGF Pictorial. We reach back to 1999 and bring your the photos from that pictorial.
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When a rock star wears a dress one time it’s a stunt to get publicity. When they do it more than once we suspect there’s another reason for their choice of attire. The late rocker Kurt Cobain did it more than once. Since Kid Cudi wore a dress on SNL and the media said it was a tribute to Kurt Cobain here are several photos of the man himself rocking dresses.
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In the seventies and eighties men in makeup were far from the norm. Bands like T-Rex, Kiss or The New York Dolls used it to attract fans but other than showbiz examples only a few fashion designers promoted the idea of men wearing makeup. Fast forward to the present day and thanks to the internet and young people who are more accepting of fashion trends that break the old norms men in makeup are all over the web doing makeup tutorials and demonstrating products on their own faces. Meet some of the “beauty boys”.
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