Recent Transgender Articles
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.
Happy Labor Day
We never stop working here in the posh 57th floor offices of TGForum to bring you the finest in TG news and entertainment. That’s why even though it’s Labor Day and most people are throwing another shrimp on the barbie (or slipping a new outfit onto a Barbie doll) we are hard at work to […]
What time is it? New Content Time!
Here on the east coast it’s been a tough week. We started out with a 5.8 magnitude earthquake that shook our TGF Towers office building like a wet dog. Then, just when we were getting the knick knacks picked up and put back on the shelf we had to batten down the hatches for hurricane […]
She’s Got Bette Davis Eyes
The eyes have it in this month’s column from The Artist D. Our resident style maven discusses eye makeup in all it’s variations. You can go from passable to drag queen in just a few strokes of the shadow applicator. Take these tips on eyes from The Artist D and be fab whatever your look.
de Alba, Cummings Knock ’em Dead in Vegas
On August 21st David de Alba and Paul Cummings were together again on stage in Las Vegas to talk about their years at Finocchio’s, receive their official inductions into the TGF Gallery of Greats and sing a few of the old songs. We present photos from that event.
Perpetual Change — “Chaos And Lace” Debut Album Review
This month Pamela DeGroff devotes her Perpetual Change column to a review of the debut album by the New York City band Chaos & Lace. The guitar driven rock is sure to please fans of the time honored rock sound, with no samples or rap to clutter it up.
Will the new content enter, and sign in please?
Sure, it’s a line from an ancient game show but it still serves the purpose — to let you know there’s new content today on TGForum! We begin with our signature distillation of the transgender news that made headlines last week — The Week In Transgenderism. This week we’ve got links to an interview with […]
WPATH and The Standards of Care
Since 1979 the primary professional organization for professionals working with TG and TS people has published guidelines for the hormonal and surgical treatment of people seeking sex reassignment. Dallas Denny takes a look at the origin and evolution of The Standards of Care.
NCTE Offers Medicare Benefits Guide For TGs
Transgender people on Medicare need to be aware that while sex reassignment surgery is not paid for under Medicare medically necessary hormones are covered. Now, to help you know what’s covered NCTE has a guide for that.
