Recent Transgender Articles
True Colors Fund Announces All Star Benefit Concert
“Home For the Holidays” to Raise Awareness About LGBT Youth Homelessness October 26, 2011 [NEW YORK] – Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors Fund today announced a star-studded benefit concert on December 4th at New York City’s historic Beacon Theatre to help raise awareness about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth homelessness. “Home for the Holidays,” presented by […]
Oops, We Did it Again
We’ve gone and added new content to TGForum! It’s our regular Monday Edition of new stuff to entertain, inform and provoke our loyal readers. We begin today with an important message from our exalted leader . . . I mean our publisher, Miss JoAnn Roberts. As science fiction writer Robert Heinlein once wrote, “There ain’t […]
The Family Jewels
There’s an old rule about putting on your accessories; always take off one item after you’ve put them all on. The Artist D says “Pshaw!” And she advises you to load yourself down with jewels as long as it makes you feel good. The Artist D tells you how to wear The Family Jewels.
Perpetual Change — Leah B.
Pam DeGroff interviews Leah B. Punk, poet, artist. All three words apply to Leah B. — and she’s a bass player. There’s also some music news on TG artists, and cisgendered artists that you may find yourself dancing to. Don’t miss Perpetual Change.
Halloween Spirit
“Oh God I really have to piss!” Shawn Vyce thought as he semi-jogged along the sidewalk. All the bars were closingand he thought he could make it home, but… “Gotta find a place… gotta find a place…” Shawn loped along in his rabbit costume feeling stupid, and hoping he wouldn’t have an accident. This wasn’t […]
New Content on The March
One of the major disadvantages of doing a weekly publication like TGForum is that every publication day that passes seems like the sand in the hourglass, in the days of our lives. Seriously, you stop to check the date and find that most of the year is gone. October 17 already? Every Monday we get […]
Some Words on Parenting
What should you do if you have a child who is gender nonconforming — or one who does conform to a gender role, just not the biological one? What if the doctor recently told you your child is intersexed? What if your child is telling you she wants a sex change?
Can We Be ‘Read’ and Pass At the Same Time?
Angela’s article on being “read” over the years sparked a discussion in a t-girl chat room group. Linda Jensen reports on what was said and then provides an article she wrote for TGF fifteen years ago. It’s still relevant for those who are concerned with passing.
NCTE Welcomes Two New Staff Members
Washington, D.C. — After four years of service, the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) is saying goodbye to their friend and colleague Stephanie White, NCTE’s Managing Director. Before joining NCTE, Stephanie White served as the National Field Director and then Deputy Director of the Rights Working Group, an immigrant rights advocacy organization. Stephanie will […]
Have we got content? Don’t Ask!
You know we do. Every Monday we bring you the finest transgender news, information and opinion that we can gather. It’s the TGForum Monday Edition and it’s ready for you right now. We begin with The Week In Transgenderism, our distillation of all the transgender news floating around on the Web. We condense, introduce and […]
TVocalizers — Joey Arias
His mother was an actress who starred in “The Creature From The Black Lagoon.” He was in rock bands in the ’70s, a member of The Groundlings comedy troop, appeared on Saturday Night Live with David Bowie, sounds like Billie Holiday and looks like Betty Page. It’s the star of “Arias With A Twist,” Joey Arias.
Philly Trans March
The Philly Trans March happened this past Saturday, October 8. Trans people and allies from all over the Philadelphia Pennsylvania region came to celebrate trans identities and advocate for transgender rights in the heart of downtown Philadelphia. We took photos and here they are.
David de Alba at The Onyx — Photos and Video
Last month David de Alba performed his “Finocchio’s Backstage Memior”s at The Onyx Theatre in Las Vegas. David has kindly sent us photos to share from that performance, and he has also set up a YouTube channel and we present a video of David performing in the show.
The New Content Just Keeps on Coming
Another Monday and another day when we update the on going process we call Transgender Forum. We begin with our condensation of all the trans news of the world — The Week In Transgenderism. Our army of top-notch researchers has overloaded the Google and Bing search engines to dig out all the trans news from […]
How Did They Read Me? Let Me Count The Ways
In her many years in heels Angela Gardner has been around the block a few times, and somewhere on the block there has been someone who had to mention that she was a he. How many times and in how many ways has Angela been “read”? Hard to say but here are just a few of the ways.
Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho! To The New Content We Go!
It’s another Monday and like the hardworking TG journalists, commentators and bloggers we are we have assembled another edition of TGForum for your edification and amusement. We could have been watching Boardwalk Empire and sipping a glass of wine but no. We were locked in our office suite at TGF Tower burning the ten o’clock […]
Brow Beating
The all important eyebrow. What you do with it may make the difference between looking beautiful and alluring or slightly deranged. This month The Artist D tackles the eyebrow and how to make your eyebrows do what you want so the world will give you what you need. Read Brow Beating.
Perpetual Change — Schmekel
They’re a band of Jewish transmen from New York and they’ll rock your world with their Jewcore music. And they have some interesting thoughts to share with Pamela DeGroff in this month’s Perpetual Change interview. Pamela rounds our the column with some new music news.
Content, Content! We got yer content!
Can you believe it? We’re halfway through the month of September! Time to switch the summer wardrobe for the fall wardrobe, get out the boots and start thinking about winter coats. We begin easing into fall with this weekly update of our TGForum content. Pushing forward, into the future. First we look at the past […]
A Look at the WPATH Standards of Care
Dallas Denny has mixed feelings about the Standards of Care and gives us both the pros and cons in this installment of WPATH and The Standards of Care. Do the Standards serve transmen well? Why shouldn’t a transwoman get breast augmentation when she wants? Dallas answers those questions and more.
You Can Fight City Hall! It’s Not So Easy to Fight Changing Times
Linda Jensen visits an old haunt that seems to be fading away. Cleopatra’s, once Montreal’s most popular drag show bar fought City Hall to stay in business. Now it needs to attract more patrons to survive. Linda finds it evokes many memories and she shares them here.
Empire Conference issues call for presenters
Organizers are accepting proposals for presentations and workshops for the 2012 Empire Conference April 12-14, 2012 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in historic downtown Albany, New York. The conference theme is “TransGenerations—Transgender Issues of Youth and the Elderly and All In Between.”
TGForum is On The Air!
Actually we’re here every Monday in cyberspace bringing you exciting and informative new content from the world of transgenderism. To that end we begin with The Week In Transgenderism, our weekly condensation of all the TG news from around the world. This week learn what Eddie Izzard and Coco Peru are up to. Find out […]
Hail September
Sophie Lynne has some thoughts to share about the upcoming holiday season. For some reason she doesn’t enjoy being beaten over the head with Christmas songs for three months and finds the fact that it’s now September a bit depressing. The only bright spot? Halloween is closer!
TVocalizers — Shirley Temple Bar
Transvocalizers features Irish performer Shirley Temple Bar! Learn what her name means, how famous she is in her homeland, and how she got where she is today. Pamela DeGroff rounds out the column with some reviews of new music and TG music videos. Keep up with all the latest music news in TVocalizers.
