Recent Transgender Articles
PERPETUAL CHANGE — StormMiguel Florez
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, […]
TG Fiction — Crying For Ogre, Part 2
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 […]
Lobby Day Date Changed
The new date for Lobby Days is March 13-25, 2011 Since the dates for The National Center for Transgender Equality’s annual Policy Conference and Lobby Day were originally set the new Congressional leadership has published a revised calendar, adding a week at home in their districts which falls during the same week as the NCTE […]
Flying En Femme — Know Your Rights
In these troubled times of mad bombers trying to light their shoe or underwear bombs on crowded aircraft the authorities have piled more screening and more intrusion into travelers’ lives into every flight. The Whole Body Imaging technology allows airport screening people to see everything under your clothes. That means your silicone breast forms, your […]
Sports, Physical Fitness and the Crossdresser
Linda recounts a conversation with a friend where she extols the physiological and social benefits of physical fitness for today’s crossdresser. “What do sports have to do with crossdressing?” I was asked when it was announced that the topic of my presentation to the next support group meeting would be ‘Sports, Fitness and the Crossdresser’. […]
GLBT TV Does Drag
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 […]
Happy New Year!
Hey! Where did last year go? It’s the first Monday of 2011 already and we’re busy getting the kinks worked out of our new format. I erroneously reported that old users would have to register again but we quickly learned that you not only don’t have to register again — you can’t. So, if you’ve […]
Ho, Ho, Ho
Sophie file this before the Christmas holiday. Ho, Ho, and who you callin’ a Ho? It’s Sophie Lynne and it’s Christmas. I guess it’d be more “politically correct” to say it’s (fill in the blank) but let’s face it: here in the US Christmas is everywhere and permeates everything. Can’t avoid it, even by lighting […]
Transvocalizers — Sherry Vine
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 […]
Monday Edition
Happy Monday after Christmas, gentle readers. After the drinking and dining on Christmas day at Publisher JoAnn Roberts’ palatial suburban manse it’s a wonder I’m awake enough to type. But, type I must (as a blizzard blankets the northeast) now that the Christmas holiday is over and the New Year celebrations are in the near […]
New Monday — New Format
It’s finally here! As you can see TGForum has a new dress. We’ve left our old look at the thrift shop and we’re all gussied up with a new format in anticipation of the new year when we will be opening our doors to the world. It’s taken us a while to come out of […]
PERPETUAL CHANGE — Year End Music Review
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 […]
TG History: The Measure of a Man — Dr. Alan L. Hart
“You’re neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad. You’re as much a part of what people call nature as anybody else; only you’re unexplained as yet — you’ve not got your niche in creation” — Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness Halls Summit, Kansas doesn’t exist anymore. But there were hundreds like it once — little […]
TG Fiction — Crying for Ogre, Part 1
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 […]
Monday Rules!
Especially when you’re talking about a Monday with the TGForum Monday Edition! Today we bring you The Week In Transgenderism, collated and compiled by our tireless News Editor Miss Ronnie Rho. Ronnie has painstakingly sifted through the entire Internet and found every story featuring even a smidge of TGness and stuffed it into TWIT. From […]
Linda’s New ‘Doo’
Linda Jensen has to make a big decision and she’s asking for your help. Which will it be? Wig 1, 2 or 3?
Time For That Old Monday Edition
Before we begin today I have to ask if you’re taking some time amid the holiday hustle and bustle to set aside time for the important things? Like making a cup of tea and sitting down in front of your computer monitor to read the TGForum Monday Edition! You are? Good, I knew you had […]
A Holiday Introduction
Hey everyone! There’s a new girl on TGForum and she’s written her first post. It’s about Thanksgiving. Check out the first contribution from Sophie Lynne. Sophie Lynne So here we are nearing the end of another year. A few days ago we residents of the USA had a holiday: Thanksgiving. The holiday is supposed to […]
It’s TGForum Time, It’s TGForum Time
And, it’s the Monday Edition of TGForum, which certainly works out well as we’re publishing it on Monday. Today we have slightly slimmer pickin’s than normal. Our stalwart and always on time columnist, Miss Dina Amberle, has had to put the “closed” sign on the diner door this week. Her holiday and work schedule conflicted […]
TGForum’s Monday Edition is Here
We begin the TGForum Monday Edition for November 22, 2010 with The Week In Transgenderism, the exhaustively researched and assembled look at all the TG news from the past week, produced by our News Editor Ronnie Rho. Ronnie has chased down all the stories with a hint of TGness, from the article about men who […]
PERPETUAL CHANGE — Christine Beatty Interview, Part 2
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, […]
TG History — Pay It Forward, Reed Erickson
“Make the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it.”– Edward Bok Who was the most influential transgendered person in history? Now there’s a question that’s certainly subject to lively debate. But a strong case could be made for a man you most likely never even heard of. His name […]
Monday, November 15, 2010
Good beginning of the week, everyone! We begin the TGForum Monday Edition with that compelling compilation of news concerning matter TG that we call The Week In Transgenderism. News Editor Ronnie Rho has quartered the Internet and sniffed out every tidbit of TG flavored news. She’s got it all, from the new “femimen” male models […]
Linda Jensen — Craig’s List Dating: Like Panning for Gold
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” […]
Gender Bending Magazine Covers
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. […]
It’s The Monday Edition!
We’ve got a jam packed TGForum Monday Edition for you on this Monday, November 8, 2010. We begin with the assemblage of news from around the world with even a hint of TG content, assembled by our News Editor Ronnie Rho. We call it The Week In Transgenderism! Ronnie has all the links to stories […]
