Monday! Again!

Here in the Mid-Atlantic states it seems as if we’re under some sort of snow curse. It’s our own fault, we got used to going through a winter with maybe a few inches of snow that melted off in a few days. Now we have felt the full wrath of two big snow storms in a row and we’re not used to it. Walking though the tunnels that we in the neighborhood call “sidewalks” took me back to when I was a kid in western Pa. and winters were a lot like this winter has been. I even lived in Erie, Pa. for a few years and up there things don’t stop for snow. The chains go on and you go to school. But around Philadelphia it’s a different story. Around here, after the initial panic buying of mass quantities of eggs, milk and bread, the populace settles in for the snow fall and wonders when the eggs, milk and bread will run out. Some people don’t even bother to clean off their cars because they believe they won’t be able to drive anywhere through the snow choked streets. But it’s not really that bad driving. All major highways are back in shape pretty fast. It’s parking the car when you get home that’s a problem. If you are stuck parking on the street it can be a chore to find a space that isn’t filled with either a snow covered car, someone’s dining room furniture (to hold the space of course. Totally illegal but that’s never stopped them) or a giant pile of snow. But, there is always a chance that spring will happen. It appears to be cyclical and it does the best job of snow removal. All we have to worry about in the spring are the floods caused by the melting piles of snow.

Another thing that’s cyclical is the Monday Edition of TGForum. It’s here again, since this is Monday, and as usual we’ve got it filled to the brim with exciting content. First up we present Miss Ronnie Rho, our News Editor par excellence, with This Week In Transgenderism. She’s got stories about more men in dresses auditioning for reality television, Amanda Lepore leading the parade down under, Thomas Beattie having another baby (that man is a baby machine) and a whole lot more. To keep up on all the TG news don’t miss your TWIT.

Directly following TWIT is the TGForum music column Perpetual  Change by our resident musicoligist Pamela DeGroff. Pam features classically trained concert pianist Sara Davis Buechner. She’s played everywhere, and played a variety of styles from classical to pops and recently celebrated 25 years of concerts with a New York City appearance. She did all that and transitioned on the job. Read the interview with Ms. Buechner and find a link to her website in this month’s Perpetual Change.

Sisters Family is a TG support and social organization in New England. They like to go out together, have some food and conversation and do what girls everywhere like to do — have some fun. But over the past couple of months they have run into some rough  times at their watering hole of choice, a place called Capone’s. It seems the straight patrons don’t have a problem with them and most of the staff is cool with the TG ladies but for some reason the management is set on turning the ladies away. The ladies are determined to go where they like and they are taking their beef with Capone’s to the government. Not the G-Men but the licensing board that grants bars the license they need to do business. Don’t miss our Special Report by Marci Veter on the bar that’s trying to bar TGs. (And there’s a sexy picture of the Sister Family’s leader, Ashley Amber Bottoms.)

To wrap it up this week we go back in time with Michelle Moore’s TG History. This month Michelle brings us Part 1 of the story of Dr. Stanley Biber, the surgeon who walked into a small western town and became the cutter who made it the sex change capitol of the USA. If you want the whole story on Dr. Biber you’ll find it, at least Part 1 of it, in The Cowboy Way, Dr. Stanley Biber.

That does it for this TGForum Monday Edition. Now where did I put that snow shovel? And my car?

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