How Martin Became a T-Girl Admirer Martin tells Linda how he came to discover and admire crossdressers, particularly those who flaunt their “feminine sexuality”. Thank you to those who have written to say they enjoy the accounts of my encounters with Martin. He is a fine gentleman, a professional engineer and an admirer of crossdressers. […]
Queen Of The World CD review This month Transvocalizers introduces you to Leslie-Anne Rios. She works under the stage name of LezleeAnne and in 2008, released her fourth CD entitled Queen Of The World. While this might not seem significant to some, it was in 2006 that she took time off from a busy touring […]
The Story So Far (TGF subscribers can read earlier installments): Terri (Theresa) is a post-op transsexual and aspiring actress in her twenties. Her early teen years are related in Juliet (the first volume of this trilogy) and her late teen years are presented in the second volume, Barbara. She has a boyfriend (Eddie Roberts) and […]
A press release for The Shondes new album My Dear One (released May 4th), set the tone of the project pretty succinctly: “Heartbreak sucks, and while ‘My Dear One’ explores this in depth, the songs also explore questions about how each of us deserves to be treated, and how we should treat each other.” Brooklyn, […]
Linda and her friend Alice get together to talk about recent developments in their lives. Inevitably the conversation soon gets around to Linda’s long distance relationship with her “admirer/friend’ Martin. It’s a well known fact that when women get together they will often share the most intimate details of their current and past boyfriends with […]
Sometimes, new leads for the column come to me in rather unusual ways. I learned about Donna Sachet through a link to a video sent by a friend. Okay, so there’s absolutely nothing unusual or new anymore about watching a video on YouTube. What caught my attention was the caption: “Drag Queen makes history by […]
The Story So Far (TGF subscribers can read earlier installments): Terri (Theresa) is a post-op transsexual and aspiring actress in her twenties. Her early teen years are related in Juliet (the first volume of this trilogy) and her late teen years are presented in the second volume, Barbara. (Search The Library for Hebe Dotson to […]
Being a working musician brings with it a certain degree of behind-the-scenes stress few fans or audience members are ever aware of. When you’re a trans musician, there’s a lot more to deal with than just your write-rehearse-record-tour schedule. Regardless of what genré your music falls into, it’s almost a given that at some time […]
Linda recalls a life-changing encounter in Los Angeles It was close to twenty years ago that I had the educational experiences of my lifetime. On the one hand I attended a major California university to study for and receive a Masters’ degree in my field of work. The course work was done largely by correspondence […]
TGForum would like to take this opportunity to introduce our readers to Roxy Wood, who hails from Long Beach, California. Calling her a “drag queen” would really be inappropriate. Roxy is multitalented, and is known more as a “character illusionist”, combing her vocal ability to impersonations of such diva luminaries as Diana Ross, Tina Tuner, […]
The rise of “trans” in public awareness has lead to confusion about what “trans” is all about. With so many variations of gender variation it’s getting to the point where almost every niche identity is finding expression. People can’t tell the difference anymore and they throw around words like “transvestite” and “transsexual” or “transgender” and […]
The Story So Far (TGF subscribers can read earlier installments): Terri’s in-laws, armed with a court order, have taken Jessie from Terri. She calls her lawyer, Bob Squires, who urges her to keep calm. He’s going to try to get the court order amended to keep Jessie in New York State and to allow Terri […]
This month, we conclude our interview with classical music musician Sara Davis Buechner. She recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of her professional debut in NYC. During her career, she has performed extensively in the United States and abroad, has released several recordings, and is currently an Associate Professor of Piano and Piano Literature at the […]
Is it a big deal for a male to go about his daily business dressed as a woman? At one time it was. In past times in certain places a male could be arrested and tossed in jail just for appearing in public dressed as a woman. Now, according to three friends I met in […]
This month, we conclude our interview with classical music musician Sara Davis Buechner. She recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of her professional debut in NYC. During her career, she has performed extensively in the United States and abroad, has released several recordings, and is currently an Associate Professor of Piano and Piano Literature at the […]
This month, we conclude our interview with Daniel Dalton, a.k.a LaLa McCallan. She is an amazing entertainer with a three octave vocal range who sings not only pop, soul, and jazz standards, but opera classics as well. For this portion of the interview, LaLa discusses her wardrobe and her side business of selling wigs. Be […]
The Story So Far (TGF subscribers can read earlier installments): As usual, the cast and crew of Romeo and Juliet gathered in the theatre lobby after their performance to chat with friends and fans. Terri soon found her former dramatics professor, Dr. Hauser, who congratulated her enthusiastically on her performance. The lift from that was […]
Classical music has been featured in this column before, and as a genre’, it’s probably received the least amount of attention in the transgender music community. However, that’s definitely starting to change. Sara Davis Buechner is a concert pianist whose repertoire includes over 100 piano concertos, from Bach to modern composers. A Buechner concert is […]
I had never met Claudia before that evening she joined me in the restaurant at Toronto’s Delta Chelsea Hotel. We exchanged messages after seeing each other’s ad on one of the free dating services offering a variety of contacts including the T4M category. We were both Ts advertising ourselves for Ms in the Vancouver, Canada […]
What happens when you mix a three octave vocal range and incredible stage presence with a fine eye for detailed period costumes and ornate wigs? No clue…give up? Well, TGForum would like to introduce you the the answer — Miss LaLa McCallan. Besides the uniqueness of her stage presence, what also stands out about LaLa is […]
This month Miss Kalina Isato talks about why we should all strive to be a ma’am and not a man; she gives us her restroom and dressing room views; tells what it’s like being someone’s muse; expounds on why youth is but a ruse, beauty studies in the news, and much, much more. Speaking of […]
The Story So Far (TGF subscribers can read earlier installments. Search the Library for “Theresa.”): After the Tuesday night opening performance of Shrew, Terence/Terri is approached by Martin Kovak, a reporter and sometime theatre critic. He seems to be greatly interested in Terence’s background – did he ever play Juliet, for instance. Terence stonewalls him […]
HOUSE OF JOY by Roger Anthony Yolanda Mapes CD review Starting with this first installment of Perpetual Change for the new year, we’re going to post the occasional CD review. With all the great music being released by the many talented artists within the GLB and trans music communities, it would be a shame not […]
We have just passed through the time of year when the media subject us to lists of ‘things’ from the year just passed. Ten Greatest Sports Stories, Newsmakers of the Year, Greatest Natural Disasters. It got me to thinking of what would be on the highlight reel for the TG community. I’ll bet Ronnie could […]
Coco Peru, a.k.a. Clinton Leupp, hails originally from The Bronx in New York and got her start doing a one woman cabaret show entitled Miss Coco Peru In My Goddamn Cabaret, in the early 1990s. The Coco character is part drag diva, part actress, and all entertainment. Besides the live cabaret shows, Coco has appeared […]
