It’s 1956 and Ramon is a young man from Texas hoping to make it in the big city. Ramon is also Ramona, a working girl trying to make a living. This particular night Ramona is taking a break from the evening stroll so Ramon can relax, have a drink or two and dig some jazz. Let’s see what happens next.
Back in the last century Linda loved Halloween. In those days it was the crossdressers’ national holiday. Linda loved to go out en femme and she loved to get dressed up in costumes. That was until 2001 when Linda came up with a costume that turned out to be A Really Bad Idea!
Sabrina Symington, the artist who brought us the horror/suspense tale, “She” has sent us a stand alone cartoon that may depict the beginning of Bria’s transition from masculine to feminine. The cartoon’s subject is working hard to be strong and build up their male body. But things don’t work out for that. Is this person Bria pre-transition? You decide.
Natalie and Kay escaped the demented kidnapper Wilfred Frum, arriving from the bizarre dimension into the basement of his home. Making their way to the street they soon attracted attention and were given assistance. Their story of being kidnapped and taken to another dimension would not be accepted so they didn’t tell the whole tale. Now they want nothing more than to live a normal life free from strange monsters who feed on pain. Will they be able to do that? Find out, maybe, from the last page of She Never Came Out.
Alt-comix cartoonist Steven Lafler has giving TGForum the chance to publish his newest work, “1956 Sweet Sweet Little Ramona.” The story is about Ramón, a.k.a. Ramona who hails from Texas and is a young trans women looking to be herself in the atmosphere of 1950s New York City. It ain’t easy! She descends into working the streets to support herself while she dreams of becoming a fashion model. This is her story we are presenting with a new page every week. (BTW, if you want to correspond with the cartoonist on TGF she’s known as Fiona Mallratte.)
Sophie Lynne gives you a spooky story for spooky time. A tale told by a bartender to a young woman while snow falls heavily outside and even though the lights are on it starts to get dark inside. She gets to drink one on the house while the bartender, who happens to own the place, tells her stories about the fella who used to own it and a strange violent incident that happened in that very room.
In our last episode Kay and Natalie found themselves in a mostly empty basement in front of a door that opened to a brick wall. A mystic symbol was drawn on the floor. They found another door that led to stairs. They ascended the stairs and found themselves not in some bizarre dwelling but a plain suburban home. Pictures on the walls showed it was the home of their kidnapper. Hurriedly they made their way to the front door and got out as fast as they could.
With his father away at work much of the time Kenny’s mother and sister encourage him to dress as Savannah more and more. His mother tells him how much she enjoys having a younger daughter and his sister continues to teach him feminine ways. Being a girl for mom and his sister isn’t a great burden and he’s beginning to enjoy it. What’s next for Savannah? Read on.
The grill in the kitchen at Dina’s Diner is hot and even though inside dining is restricted and most folks are doing takeout or being seated in the outdoor tent dining room the menu is sure to satisfy. If you’re dining in get a cup of java and peruse the menu. You’ll find the specials today includes transgender candidates for office, feminine voice training from the creator of “She”, how to take a better selfie, arctic expedition dress codes, and the lure of the quirky yet sexy librarian. It all combines well to nourish your mind.
In the last episode Natalie and Kay pass through the door from the dark, horror filled realm where they were held captive and landed on the floor of a normal basement. The door behind them was standing open and revealed not that dark realm but a brick wall. On the floor in front of the door was a complex occult symbol. The women get up and cross the near empty basement to another door. When opened it reveals stairs which the two worn out and befuddled women climb.
TransTainment digs into the news from the world of entertainment and the arts to find the transgender artists, actors, and musicians who are working to add their joy to our world. Today there’s news about Daniela Vega, star of A Fantastic Woman, the winner of the Miss Intercontinental pageant, what Justin Vivian Bond has been up to during the pandemic, and more. Don’t miss out on the latest in transtainment!
Linda continues her story of Susan, a 50-something long-time crossdresser who has just spent the last several weeks in Florida winding up the estate of her recently deceased estranged birth father. Among other discoveries Susan learned that her father had also been a crossdresser. She also got to wear some of her father’s old dresses and to get to know Nora, her father’s partner who was a post-op TS. But now it’s time to head home. With some planned stops for crossdressed fun along the way. But Susan doesn’t get to enjoy a slow trip home. After thinking some things over she decides getting there early is a better idea.
A pandemic can’t keep Julie Slowinski down. As restaurants and other venues have reopened Julie and her pals made plans and got out and about en femme. Today she blogs about a fun weekend, and tells you about some bargains she acquired that will definitely make you jealous.
Natalie and Kay clearly saw the door and the realm of monsters faded to blackness. It was a plain wooden door with a normal door knob set in a normal wall. Kay grabs the knob. And it turns with a click. Is this their escape from terror? The answer is just a click away in Episode 52 of Sabrina Symington’s “She.”
But as the strange creature spoke spoke to our heroine behind it, ever so slowly, a door began to phase in. A plain wooden door with a normal doorknob. Kay and Natalie saw the door and dashing bast the creature they ran toward that door. Is it the way out? Take a look at Episode 51 of She.
Kandi Robbins has been going out and about en femme for a long while and her one rule for placing yourself out there with the general public is “be smart.” Being smart means thinking about what you’re going to wear, how you want to be perceived, and be confident. If you seem worried, anxious, ready to run, you are going to get looked at. Not because you’re crossdressed but because you are so ill at ease. Read what Kandi has to say on the subject and be smart.
Christine Burr is proud to have been called a ladyboy when she was checking in to a hotel in Thailand. She explains why and gives some backstory about Thailand’s ladyboys in this latest Dispatch from Thailand.
This abstract is the opening scene of a classic crossdresser novel by Alan Barrie that was the all time number one bestseller in the classic publishing line, Lee Brewster’s MARDI GRAS PRESS. A revised edition of this classic is now available in a Kindle Edition on Amazon, but this opening chapter stands on its own just fine.
In our last episode the bizzare creature of many parts was praising Kay for giving in to her anger and breaking her and Natalie’s tormentor into little pieces. Pieces that remained alive against all reason. But as the creature spoke behind it ever so slowly a door appeared. A plain wooden door with a normal doorknob. Could escape from the strange dimension be at hand? Take a look at Episode 50 of She and see what happens.
Today we slip the constraints of linear time and bounce around the time stream to check out drag in cinema that missed covering in previous editions of Drag in Cinema. We look at Back to the Future, Part II, Trick from 1999, and the 2006 feature She’s The Man which features a female character impersonating her brother at an exclusive school. Then we stop 2010 for All Good Things, a film based on the exploits of suspected murderer Robert Durst.
Young Kenny lives in a small town about an hour East of Atlanta and an hour south of the Chattanooga National Forest. He is attracted to the feel of the soft, silky fabrics of his older sister’s lingerie. He enjoys it so much he doesn’t hear his sister until she comes in the room and he gets caught in her lingerie drawer once too often and she decides to punish him by dressing him up as a girl. Is that really a punishment? Find in this chapter of My Life as Savannah.
Time for another visit to Dina’s Diner! Today Dina is cooking up a satisfying selection of hearty fall fare. She begins with some full bodied advice on being who you are. Then she stirs in some flavor trans history with the three article rule. After that you cleanse your palate with some news about a delivery service for crossdressers that brings you all you need, if you live in Japan. Then the dishes keep coming with musing on how we pick our femme names, and a desert of pandemic accessories that are to die for.
In our last episode a bizarre creature confronted Kay in the Savouring Chamber of the weird dimension and took the bat she had used to destroy their abductor. The creature, which appeared to be built of multiple human bodies sewn together, praised Kay for her violent actions defending Natalie and herself. But the creature said that Kay was not a flower ready to cut. But someday she would be ripe for a return to the weird dimension. But as it spoke things shifted and behind the creature a door, a simple wooden door, phased into being.
Covering the show biz beat, it’s TransTaintment! We keep you up to date on what transgender actors are appearing in TV, film, and more! Today trans at the Emmys, Star Trek adds trans and non-binary characters, Indya Moore models for Jason Wu, Uncle Clifford keeps an eye on the ladies at the club and Kate Bornstein and Ryan Cassata team up in the film Two Eyes.
Back in the 1990s, when TGForum was young, people would send their photos to the Editor, Cindy Martin and Cindy would turn their snapshots into glamor pictorials. These photos were actually scanned from color prints and assembled for TGF user’s entertainment. Today our Retro Rerun is the 1999 pictorial of Diane Kramer. We’re sure she would want you to enjoy her poses today, as much as TGF users did back in 1999.
Linda continues her story of Susan, a 50-something long-time crossdresser who has just spent the last several weeks in Florida winding up the estate of her recently deceased birth father. Among other discoveries Susan learned that her father had also been a crossdresser. She also got to wear some of her father’s old dresses and to get to know Nora, her father’s partner who was a post-op TS. It had turned out to be a fabulous visit.
