Recent Transgender Articles
Say it with me, It’s Monday!
Monday rolls around and just like clockwork there’s another edition of TGForum ready for your information and edification. We begin with the every popular and always delightful TWIT, the handiwork of our News Editor Ronnie Rho. Miss Rho digs out every little bit of TG news and packs it all into a tasty treat for […]
TRANSVOCALIZERS — LezleeAnne Rios Interview
Last month, we introduced to readers of this column, by way of a review of her latest project, Queen Of The World. Working under the stage name of Lezlee Anne, she has made a name for her herself as a singer/songwriter/roots rocker. She has also taken time to compete in a trans pageant known as […]
Jam Packed Monday
When I was young I heard people say something was “jam packed” and to my young mind would come the vision of whatever it was they were talking about just filled up with jam. Of course that’s not what they meant but when I say today is a jam packed Monday I’m talking about the […]
Free David de Alba Show at the Library
Drag at the library? It’s happening on June 27th at the Clark County Library in, of course, Las Vegas. World famous impersonator David de Alba is presenting a one man musical concert titled Backstage Memoirs. The show is billed as a tribute to the gone but but not forgotten female impersonation club Finocchio’s. David de […]
Theresa Chapter 51
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 […]
New Television Show Casting Call
Dr. Berman Dr. Laura Berman, the world renowned sex and relationship expert who will be familiar to those of you who regularly watch the Oprah Winfrey Show, is starting her own television show about “sexual identity.” It’s called In The Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman. Of course if you want to be a guest on […]
State Department has New Policy on Gender Change in Passports
On June 9, 2010 the U.S. State Department issued the following press release announcing a new policy regarding gender change in passports and Consular Reports of Birth Abroad. The U.S. Department of State is pleased to use the occasion of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Month to announce its new policy guidelines regarding gender change […]
PERPETUAL CHANGE/The Shondes Interview
Interview with Elijah Oberman of The Shondes Last month, Perpetual Change featured a review of the new album My Dear One by Brooklyn, New York based The Shondes. This project was just released at the beginning of last month, and the band has been busy on the road in support of the new project. Their […]
TG History — Climbing Mount Everest, Part 2
“Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.” James Arthur Baldwin Coronation Everest Its very name is part of our language. Being called “The Mount Everest” of something symbolizes the most daunting challenge imaginable. Remote, hostile, and cruelly rugged, Everest is the highest point on Earth and climbing it […]
Memorial Monday
Hi Everyone! Happy Memorial Day! Today we begin with our usual potpourri of piquant TG pulchritude — yes, that’s right! It’s the awesome work of TGF News Editor Ronnie Rho — The Week In Transgenderism! (I changed it from “this” which made no sense seeing as how it’s all stories from last week.) Ronnie has […]
The Week in Transgenderism
Pakistani Hijras Believe it or not, things are getting better for us as a whole. Incrementally, according to one activist/lobbyist. A vet transitions and causes a stir down at the VFW lodge. A loss for the Brit who wanted a boob job from the government. Police arrest a would-be bride and her groom-in-denial. Calpernia Addams […]
TransActive: How To Tell Him (or Her)
TransActive: How To Tell Him (or Her) by Christine Beatty Okay, to be perfectly honest I’m all written out. I just sent off my latest novel, Homegirl, to my literary manager and so I don’t feel like writing a damn thing for a few more weeks. However, I don’t want to leave all of you […]
My Favorite Martin: Part 3
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. […]
Will The Real Monday Please Stand Up?
Hey ho kittens! It’s that time again, time for the TGForum Monday Edition! Our ongoing, work in progress, perpetual publication is once again adding new content and you are here on Monday, May 24, 2010 to scroll our page, click our links and get your fill of all the new TG stuff. We begin with […]
TRANSVOCALIZERS — Leslie-Anne Rios, CD Review
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 […]
Your Assignment — The TGF Monday Edition
Good day TGFers! Since we have a pile of stuff for you today I will keep this short. Last week I took some space to comment on the Family Guy episode and this week there is news of TG outrage at the depiction of Quagmire’s dad having SRS. News Editor Ronnie Rho has a link […]
L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center Hosts Trans-Unity
The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center kicks off Pride Month with 
with the nation’s largest Transgender Pride Event, Trans-Unity Pride. It’s a four day Pride celebrations for all those who fall under the TG umbrella. It’s free and it happens in Los Angeles from June third through the sixth. The weekend includes a TG/Gender […]
Theresa — Chapter 50
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 […]
After Every Sunday…
It’s Monday again! And that means we roll out a brand new issue of TGForum. Even though it’s now the 21st century and electronic publishing on the Web means anything we publish hangs around forever (unless JoAnn forgets to pay the bill for the server space) we tend to still relate to the world in […]
TG History — Climbing Mount Everest
“The longest journey of any person is the journey inward.” Dag Hammerskjvld Manhattan ’45 It’s September 16, 2001. Ground Zero plus five days. War has come to New York City. The World Trade Towers are gone. Nearby buildings are collapsing into rubble. Fires burn everywhere. Thousands are dead. Nobody knows for certain who survived and […]
PERPETUAL CHANGE — The Shondes “My Dear One” CD review
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, […]
Monday Edition Fresh From The Oven
Good Monday everyone! It’s time again for the TGForum Monday Edition. And what a thrill packed compilation it is. As I was doing the final editing I saw a theme develop. It’s touched on in This Week In Transgenderism with stories about the popularity of RuPaul’s Drag Race and TG subjects in modern sculpture. There’s […]
TransActive: A House United
“The issue is us versus them. Any us versus any them.â€Â With these words from her groundbreaking play Hidden: A Gender Kate Bornstein summarizes what may be humanity’s greatest downfall: divisiveness. Yet at the same time, drawing the lines also forms the basis of identity politics that can be empowering. In other words, “us versus […]
Linda Jensen — My Favorite Martin
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 […]
A Struggle For Identity by Raina Rouse
There are few people in my life that I have come across who are not afraid to show their true colors. Â Today, there are many individuals who hide parts of themselves away from the world do to fear of ridicule and rejection. Â I, myself, have even fallen victim to these fearful habits in my lifetime. […]
TransVocalizers: Donna Sachet
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 […]
