In last month’s TVocalizers Pamela DeGroff interviewed transgender rapper Foxxjazell. This month Pamela reviews Foxxjazell’s CD “Boy, Girl, Whateva.” And she does some capsule reviews of new CDs by non-TG artists that you may like.
JoAnn Roberts, our Publisher and all around great lady, had her birthday roll around a few days ago and she went to Angela’s Laptop Lounge to get her party groove on. There was cake!
In last Monday’s TWIT Ronnie had a story about a British comic who did a dance routine to a Beyoncé song for the British television show Let’s Dance for Comic Relief. Today we dig deeper into the TWIT link. The show started in February and runs till a final competition in March. It features England’s […]
England seems to have more than it’s share to truly unique, creative individuals in all of the creative arts. Especially in music. Progressive rock was practically an English creation, considering some of the bands that started their careers in the mid-1960s to late 1970s. This column is named after an amazing piece of music by […]
In our last installment “Ogre” found himself becoming less and less the butch rugby player and more like a female fashion model. How long can he go on avoiding contact with his frat brothers? What will the team think? How come his clothes keep changing into sexy girl outfits? Read Crying For Ogre – Part 4.
Our field correspondent Linda Jensen has filed another report on her activities “out and about.” Linda recounts to a friend how a shopping trip to Macy’s in Manhattan led to her being stopped by a store detective. You will want to read to the end to find out what happened.
Transvocalizers is about TGs who sing. In today’s column Pamela DeGroff interviews transgender hip hop/hip pop performer Foxxjazell. This southern lady has established a presence on YouTube and other online venues. She chats with Pamela DeGroff about her new single release, facing prejudice and hate within the hip hop community and her plans for the future.
Last month, Perpetual Change featured an interview with trans musician/singer/songwriter StormMiguel Forez. This month, we feature a review of his latest release, 2010’s Long Lost Sun, his first project since transistioning. (Produced by StormMiguel Florez.) The album is what most reviewers would call minimalistic, or just plain bare bones production. Most of the material is […]
In Part 2 of “Crying For Ogre” the changes in Ogre’s body came on faster and faster. Attempts to cut the long nails that grew out so quickly were met with new growth in minutes. Same for the his hair. And what about the growth that was occurring in his breasts? Hey! Breasts? What was happening to Ogre? Learn more in Crying For Ogre, Part 3.
Linda recently came across some encouraging examples of her friends’ transgender status making no difference to people in the medical and retail sectors and in fact they have been told to ‘tell their friends.’ Is there something happening out there?
Last week we asked what drag images you had seen on television or in the movies while you were young that may have inspired you to move toward making women’s clothing part of your lifestyle. The answers are in!
This month, Transvocalizers features one of our regular TGForum contributors, Dina Amberle. She performs as a piano bar vocalist under the name Dina Sinatra and has established her own circuit of regular venues throughout the greater Philadelphia area. She’s become known for her parodies of Frank Sinatra songs, but also has a vast repertoire of […]
It’s usually a bit of a challenge to come up with something interesting for my first column of the new year. This year is different, though, for two reasons. First off, I planned ahead months in advance. And secondly, I found StormMiguel Florez. Florez is, in his own words, “…a Mexican American FtM, genderqueer, singer/songwriter, […]
In Crying For Ogre, Part 1 we met frat boy, Rugby player and shameless exploiter of women Andrew “Ogre” Gruber. After meaningless –to him — sex with his girlfriend he tells her she’ll have to walk herself home because he’s just not into her anymore. Distraught and crying the jilted girlfriend voices an appeal to […]
Logo, the gay, lesbian, bi, transgender cable channel has had so much success with RuPaul’s Drag Race that they have been adding more drag to the programing. One of their regular features is called One Night Stand Up and it showcases gay and lesbian comics. Recently they featured drag queen comics in One Night Stand […]
Transvocalizers is starting the new year out right by introducing a new (to us…) performer by the name of Sherry Vine. Vine, whose real name is Keith Levy, has made a definite dent in the world of live vocal drag shows by doing often risque parodies of current hits. Vine does owe sort of a […]
In our TGForum companion Transvocalizers column, I presented a brief review of a Christmas project released 5 years ago, Carols Across America that featured Donna Sachet on one track. I also offered some year end music shopping suggestions for all you procrastinators out there. Well, for some of us (myself included), procrastination is an art […]
It was early September 1986, and life couldn’t be any better for Andrew “Ogre” Gruber. He was a senior at State, he was the star of the rugby team, and he was Social Chairman of his fraternity: Beta Chi. All that and he was having sex with this hot chick he met during the summer […]
Linda Jensen has to make a big decision and she’s asking for your help. Which will it be? Wig 1, 2 or 3?
Last month, we presented the first part of our interview with Christine Beatty. She was one half of the band Glamazon and has since embarked on a career as a journalist and author. We’re fortunate that Ms. Beatty took the time to do this interview in the first place, and it’s because of her thoughtful, […]
Linda uses a 21st Century dating service to find her man in one of the world’s most historic cities. “I’m thinking or writing a series of articles about putting personal ads on Craig’s List. Have any of you ever done that?” “Craig’s List! Nothing but a bunch of phonies!” “”They just play games with you” […]
Flavorwire has assembled ten gender bending magazine covers. The covers come from magazines from 1895 to the present and include various amounts of gender variance, from total drag to Gary Cooper being made up for a cowboy movie. Nice juxtaposition there. Click on the graphic to open a new window with the cover slide show. […]
Last month, we interviewed singer/songwriter/activist Shawna Virago in this column. As promised, this month we feature a review of her debut project, Objectified. Produced by Shawna Virago, she also plays guitar, bass, harmonica, and piano, as well as doing all vocals and writing all material. Other musicians include Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney, drums; Tim Perdue, bass; […]
Hebe Dotson Our doyenne of TG fiction, Miss Hebe Dotson, has finally had the time to actually step away from her typewriter and get out of the house in a dress. For her first foray into the world of femme living Hebe took a trip to Fantasia Fair. My friend Jamie and I rolled into […]
Going above and beyond the call of duty I, Angela Gardner, got dolled up and went out on the night I have to stay in and work on TGForum’s Monday Edition. Why did I do it? Because the biggest Halloween party on the East Coast was happening in Philadelphia and I had to cover it […]
