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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!
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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!
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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.
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Time for our monthly report on transgender people in film and video. Today we begin with a BBC documentary about The Frock Destroyers recording their album and going on tour. Then we’ve got info on a film from New Zealand in which a trans man returns to his family home after being estranged for ten years. We cover the career of the late Indonesian entertainer Dorce Gamalama, and another documentary on a U.K. drag queen who is a real gypsy queen. Justin Vivian Bond performs on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series. Tyler Perry speaks on whether Madea is a drag queen. Survivor has its first out trans contestant. Okay, action!
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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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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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It’s TransTainment! All the news from arts and entertainment that features transgender musicians, performers, actors and artists. Today there’s news about Pose. The trans man who stars on 9-1-1: Lone Star. Josie Totah in a new film for Netflix, and more! Keep up to date on trans artistes activities!
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Today Drag in Cinema looks at three films featuring male actors in drag. Coming to America with Arsenio Hall dressed as a woman in a nightclub scene playing opposite his male self, Peter O’Toole as a drunken lord in full farthingale in Rebecca’s Daughters, and Christopher Lee in the 1972 horror flick The Wicker Man. Lee is the high priestess (priest?) of a pagan cult.
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We call it TransTainment and it’s news about transgender people in the arts and entertainment! Today we look back to the 1968 documentary The Queen which follows drag contestants in 1967’s Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant. Then we learn about the first trans character coming to The Chi. A Southeast Asian trans activist and artist is mixing art and activism. Laverne Cox has produced a film about the way transgender people have been featured in film and TV. Doctor Who, in the audio adventures, has a new Companion and she’s transgender. Josie Totah is starring in an updated Saved By The Bell as a popular cheerleader. And that’s not all of our trans entertainment news.
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The New Drag In Cinema feature kicks off with coverage of few films from the 1970s that were not covered in the old Drag In Cinema column. From well known iconic films like The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the original French production of La Cage aux Folles, to lesser known films that featured drag, even a Soviet made-for-TV movie based on Charlie’s Aunt, you’ll find the today in our new Drag In Cinema column.
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It’s our column on transgender people in the arts! TransTainment! Today there’s news about a new scripted show starring RuPaul that’s coming to NetFlix in January. Andreja Pejic has decided to make an effort to do more acting. Here experience in The Girl in The Spider’s Web gave her a taste for it. Y: The Last Man Standing is coming to FX as a series. They are casting a trans man for a new role. Jen Richards was getting good reviews for her performance in Mrs. Fletcher but the series has been canceled after one season. Singer Ryan Cassada talks about his problems caused by alcohol and drugs and why sober is better. There’s all that and a bit more in TransTainment!
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TransTainment is transgender people in entertainment and the arts! Today Angela Gardner has info about Kim Petras’s U.S. tour, a new Drag Race show coming in 2020 with celebrities being transformed into queens, casting of trans actresses in television shows and ad campaigns, the drag queen who is reporting on the impeachment hearings, changes for category names in the Emmy Awards, Wendy Carlos, and a lot more! Don’t miss all the trans entertainment news! Get it from TransTainment!
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Where can you find transgender actors, characters and stories in the mainstream media? Trans Media Arts gives you all the transgender entertainment news. Amanda F. Steele is our intrepid entertainment reporter who digs up all that’s going on in the arts and entertainment in regard to transgender issues. Today she has info on a trans man actor in the next Spiderman movie, more on Nicole Maines’ role in Supergirl, a French transgender Playboy model who wants to act, and a cis male actor playing a trans woman role. All the news is there in Trans Media Arts.
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Years ago on TGForum Laurie Sheril did a series of articles on drag in the cinema. She started back in the days of silent film and worked her way forward in time to the ’90s. Today we dip into the TGForum Archives to bring you her thoughts on films from the early 1960s that featured characters in drag.
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If you need all the news about trans themes, trans characters, and trans actors and musicians then you don’t want to miss Trans Media Arts. Today our trans entertainment reporter Amanda F. Steele has info on Nicole Maines as Dreamer in Supergirl, the transcending of gender roles in the film Collette, a first look at Ruby Rose as Batwoman, and more. Don’t miss Trans Media Arts!
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Amanda F. Steele covers the arts and entertainment beat for TGF. Today she has the news about Nicole Maines in Supergirl, a project by a coalition of Hollywood organizations to promote the casting of transgender actors, a controversy around Amanda Lepore on album artwork, Dame Edna in hot water with the T community, and more. Keep up with what’s happening with transgender people in the arts and entertainment scene by following Trans Media Arts.
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Amanda F. Steele cover the arts and entertainment scene that features trans actors, characters, writers or musicians. Today she has news about the Scarlett Johanssen casting controversy; a transgender character being added to General Hospital being portrayed by a trans actress; news about Laura Jane Grace’s band Against Me! and more. Stay up to date on transgender people in the arts and check out Trans Media Arts!
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In the 1990s TGForum had an expert on drag in movies who wrote a series of articles for us. Laurie Sheril was her name and she covered the instances of movie crossdressing through the different historical periods of film-making. We’re bringing her series out of the archives as a Retro Rerun beginning with her article on drag in the early years of the talkies.
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Trans Media Arts covers trans people in the arts and entertainment world. Today Amanda F. Steele covers the documentary about trans man body builder, “Man Made.” Gives you info on the controversial film Anything which premieres soon, and then she gives you the skinny on the new show about the house ball scene of the ’80s that comes to television in June, “Pose.” She wraps it all up with a trailer for the film about Tongan trans folks, called leitis. It’s all in Trans Media Arts.
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Sherman, Tx: Friday, April 27 – May 27, Jake and Rave Productions, LLC, will be releasing the concept episode for Spirit Quest, a transgender owned and starred paranormal investigation show on Amazon for one month. The show follows Braxton Roane, a transgender man, as he travels the United States, with each episode exploring different historical […]
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Our west coast correspondent Amanda F. Steele covers the arts scene. Film, books, television, music. Whatever the art form if it features transgender characters or is created by transgender people Amanda includes it in Trans Media Arts. Today she has more on the departure of Jeffrey Tambor from Transparent. The band All-American Rejects has put out an 11 minute film for their song Sweat and Amanda has the video right here. Then she has info about a graphic novel about a prince who adopts a female identity and becomes a trendsetter. There’s more in Trans Media Arts — don’t miss it!
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While TWIT is all the trans related news, TMA is all the news about transgender people in the arts and entertainment. Today Amanda F. Steele writes about the backlash comic Dave Chapelle is getting on his trans jokes. She also has info on the male character in the reboot of Roseanne who likes to wear girl’s clothes, and she talks about a documentary pulled from Canadian television that questions whether parents should be supportive of trans children. There’s also info on the new show featuring a host of trans characters, Pose, and word of a book of science fiction stories by transgender writers. Don’t miss any of TMA!
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Amanda F. Steele searches the world of entertainment and the arts to find stories featuring trans people. She presents her findings to you in her Trans Media Arts blog. Today she has a bit of a wrap up on the trans participation in arts and entertainment in 2017. Dive in and enjoy!
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Trans people and themes in entertainment and the arts! That’s the beat that our Amanda F. Steele covers for TGF. Today she has news about the young transgender woman who is breaking into pop star territory — Kim Petras. Ms. Petras has a brand new single that is racking up listens on Spotify and you can listen to it in Amanda’s post. Then she discusses an artist who creates trans versions of Disney characters; tells us about research that shows movies and TV shows that feature trans characters is helping to create a positive image for the trans community. There’s all those stories and more in Trans Media Arts!
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Amanda F. Steel covers the trans entertainment beat. Today she has info on an LGBT memorial to be installed in New York. She tells us about a new film titled “And Then There Was Eve” that stars trans actress Rachel Crowl. Can a party hostess/DJ make it in the art world? Amanda says that Juliana Huxtable is doing just that. Then there’s new musical in development that tells the story of LGBT street kids. She wraps up with news about when Gavin Russom of LCD Soundsystem will reveal her femme identity to her fans. Get all the entertainment news relating to the trans community right her in Trans Media Arts.
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News about trans people and themes in movies, books, music and television! Amanda gathers it all together for Trans Media Arts. Today she tells you about a new documentary film titled “Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens” that follows the lives of LGBTQ people in the Buckeye State. Then she has word about an opera featuring a trans lead character, gives you news about Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner, and tops off the column with news about a NYC play looking to cast trans performers. Then she brings it all home with info on the first book in a new Young Adult series about a trans girl who through an act of heroism acquires super powers — and a female body. Get the scoop in today’s edition of Trans Media Arts.
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