EDITOR’S NOTE: This post is from 2013. The agency was casting for Barney’s spring 2014 ad campaign. There is no indication that the agency is still interested in seeing TG models. TGForum was contacted last week by a casting agency in New York that is looking for transgendered models for an ad campaign for a […]
David de Alba, legendary female impersonator who performed for years at Finocchio’s in San Francisco has received honors and accolades throughout his 48-year-career. Recently we learned that he will be getting another honor at his next show at The Onyx Theatre in Las Vegas on November 24 — this time from his Spanish speaking fans. […]
Dr. Danielle Kaufman has some thoughts on the new law in California which allows students to use the restroom and locker room facilities appropriate for their gender identity. Dr. Kaufman, author of Untying the Knot, has just recently come out as a transgendered woman and from that perspective she comments on the reason the law was needed and deflates the ludicrous fears of those who oppose the law. This is Dr. Kaufman’s first contribution to TGForum and we welcome her thoughts and insights.
Dr. Sherman Leis is one of the world’s pre-eminent transgender surgeons and founder of The Philadelphia Center For Transgender Surgery, in Bala Cynwyd, PA. It is recognized as one of the leading facilities in the world specializing in gender reassignment surgery. In the course of his work Dr. Leis has found himself counseling family and friends of his patients. He has compiled a list of ten tips on how to interact with a transgendered person.
With the untimely demise of JoAnn Roberts earlier this year the fate of the TG community event she hosted annually on the coast of Delaware was thrown into uncertainty. We’re happy to report that Beauty and the Beach will go on this year as scheduled. A group of JoAnn’s friends and BATB attendees have formed a committee to help JoAnn’s widow produce the event this year in honor of JoAnn Roberts.
Willow Arune is a collector of books. Not just any books but signed first editions. She hunts up the author and has them sign her copy of their work, or a bookplate which she affixes to her first edition making it a signed first edition. One of the authors she decided to track down was Geoff Brown who wrote a novel in the early ‘60s called “I Want What I Want.” The main character is a male to female transsexual. Join Ms. Arune as she takes you on a tour of TS themed books on her Hunt for Geoff Brown.
We were contacted by the Executive Director of GLSEN, Eliza Byard, PhD with the following news: I am proud to announce that GLSEN is strengthening our longstanding support for transgender and gender nonconforming students with the addition of the student-created grassroots organization Transgender Student Rights (TSR) to our family of programs. Founded in 2009, TSR is an online community that provides support […]
When you hear the word “sizzler” you may think of a bacon sandwich, a really hot day in August, or a “value” price chain of steak restaurants. The “sizzler” in this case is the Summer Sizzler Party that happened June 14 outside Boston. Stacey Carla Stevens brings us a report on the fun.
Legendary female impersonator David de Alba sent us some photos from his last performance in Las Vegas. It’s David doing his spot-on Judy Garland.
The Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference is in it’s 12th year and it has grown so large that it is set to happen June 13-15 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in downtown Philadelphia, Pa. The conference is a program of the Mazzoni Center, Philadelphia’s LGBT health care & wellness center. The conference provides a free space where trans-people, […]
We got an email from GLSEN. They asked us to share the information below with any TG youth who spend their time reading TGForum instead of studying. You kids know who you are so here goes: LGBTQ YOUTH – SPEAK OUT ABOUT YOUR SCHOOL EXPERIENCES! Help GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network) inform […]
Drag icon Vicki Rene interviewed The Cuban Legend David de Alba back in 2003. The interview was posted on Vicki’s website but when she passed away it disappeared from the web. Thanks to the devotion of one of David’s friends who found a copy and gave it to David we can present The Lost Interview.
Kristy Snow, VP of TransCentralPA, has provided us with many photos of the latest Keystone Conference 2013. The group is already working on the 2014 Conference and word is that they have reserved all the rooms at the conference hotel. Check out the fun from 2013.
The Keystone Conference has left attendees with an array of thoughts, emotions and perspectives. Their stories continue to bubble up and we bring them to you on TGF. Susannah Robinson is one attendee who was inspired by the conference to think and write about the gender binary and crossdressing. She shares her thought’s in Keystone Reflections.
A first time Keystone Conference attendee came to the event with almost no femme clothes. She needed everything but a wig. She went shopping near the hotel and had some interesting interactions with store employees — and one downright fantastic makeover.
(Bala Cynwyd, PA) Dr. Sherman Leis, transgender surgeon of international renown and founder of The Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery, was recognized by the Caroline Grace Foundation for his extraordinary efforts on behalf of the transgender community. In remarks given by Caroline Temmermand, Chair of the Caroline Grace Foundation, at an awards ceremony in the […]
The Web offers a place to explore other roles and connect in ways you can’t in real life.. One TG lady from Thailand made a Web connection and then he said he was coming to meet her in Thailand. He had no idea she wasn’t born a female. Learn what happened when she told him the truth.
Texas Universities face new challenges in regard to pluralism and the respect of diversity in its many forms among faculty, student, staff, and the communities wherein they reside. Oftentimes a strategic approach that utilizes the grassroots power of the members of these institutions in collaboration with leaders at high administrative levels yields the most positive […]
Watch video highlights from Episode 5 of the latest season of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
The Co-Chairs of First Event 2013 have sent us a report on how that event unfolded in January 23-27 in Peabody, Massachusetts. With a keynote address from Amanda Simpson, a wedding, fashion show, cabaret and dance party — and more — the convention was a great success.
“Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.” Casey Stengel Not to seem nitpicky or anything but often what we learn in History Class is not technically correct, particularly on the matter of inventions. For the sake of convenience we’re taught that so-and-so invented the zipper or the steamboat […]
TG in History by Michelle Lynn (Part 1) Where is my honorable man? Where is my prairie son? Where is my happy ending? Where have all the Cowboys gone? — Paula Cole Ol’ Doc Biber’s greatest adventure began with a special visitor in 1969. Her name was Ann. Social worker by trade. Reddish hair. Medium […]
Sometimes those of us in “the community” can be pretty insensitive towards one another. I know that’s not news to anyone, but it comes out in ways that are pretty subtle sometimes. One of them I’ve seen a couple of times recently in comments posted to other’s blogs is the phrase “just a crossdresser.” It […]
TG Forum is adding some new bloggers! The first new voice on the Forum, Stephanie Yates, says hello in her first TGF Blog. I guess I’m the new girl in town, so an introduction is in order (at least that’s what my editor tells me). I’m Stephanie Yates, married (nearly 24 years, same wonderful, tolerant, […]
Hi there. Welcome to the first post on my showbiz blog. This is a test as much as anything, so if everything looks like it’s written Chinese or the words are upside down, it’s probably not your computer. Odds are I’ve hit the wrong button, but I’ll fix it soon enough. Let’s take a look […]
