Recent Transgender Articles
TRANSVOCALIZERS — LaLa McCallan (Part 2)
This month, we conclude our interview with Daniel Dalton, a.k.a LaLa McCallan. She is an amazing entertainer with a three octave vocal range who sings not only pop, soul, and jazz standards, but opera classics as well. For this portion of the interview, LaLa discusses her wardrobe and her side business of selling wigs. Be […]
Walter Williams’ Academic Transgender Studies Website
There are often complaints that not enough research is done into the transgendered world: No-one’s sure exactly how many people in the world are TG, or what exactly qualifies as transgendered. But, there are a few people who are digging, exploring and asking the right questions.
It’s Straight Up Monday, Dog
Yo, yo my loyal readers, it’s time once again for the TGForum Monday Edition. Excuse my lapse into street argot. I do apologize but in my quest for unique intros to the weekly Monday Edition I am beginning to run out of creative concepts. Soon I’ll be reduced to just starting out with “Hey, it’s […]
THERESA Chapter 47
The Story So Far (TGF subscribers can read earlier installments): As usual, the cast and crew of Romeo and Juliet gathered in the theatre lobby after their performance to chat with friends and fans. Terri soon found her former dramatics professor, Dr. Hauser, who congratulated her enthusiastically on her performance. The lift from that was […]
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 […]
PERPETUAL CHANGE — Sara Davis Buechner
Classical music has been featured in this column before, and as a genre’, it’s probably received the least amount of attention in the transgender music community. However, that’s definitely starting to change. Sara Davis Buechner is a concert pianist whose repertoire includes over 100 piano concertos, from Bach to modern composers. A Buechner concert is […]
TG History — THE COWBOY WAY, DR. STANLEY BIBER
“Where is my honorable man? Where is my prairie son? Where is my happy ending? Where have all the Cowboys gone?” “” Paula Cole Trinidad, Colorado is a historic old frontier town that’s proud of its Western heritage. “A pocket of peace, plentiful clean air, and pure Western Americana” they like to say. With access […]
Mundi…mundee… No, by golly it’s MONDAY!
It’s that day again. Monday, Monday, can’t trust that day. At least that’s what The Mamas and The Popas said. But whether you can trust it or not we’re back at Monday and you can trust that we’re delivering a new Monday Edition of TGForum. We begin with the column you know you need, This […]
TransActive: Activism 101
“You can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar.†— Ancient folk wisdom “Profanity and obscenity entitle people who don’t want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.†— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Those of you who read last month’s TransActive may recall the tiny clique of angry transwomen who […]
A “T-girl” in a Gay Fraternity
I had never met Claudia before that evening she joined me in the restaurant at Toronto’s Delta Chelsea Hotel. We exchanged messages after seeing each other’s ad on one of the free dating services offering a variety of contacts including the T4M category. We were both Ts advertising ourselves for Ms in the Vancouver, Canada […]
Get Yer Monday Edition, Step Right Up
Many people loath Mondays. That’s the day they have to go back to work and get back into their work day routine. Some dread the first commute of the week, that Monday crawl, as they make their way to the office. Here at TGF I loath Sundays. That’s because every Sunday evening while others are […]
TRANSVOCALIZERS — LaLa McCallan
What happens when you mix a three octave vocal range and incredible stage presence with a fine eye for detailed period costumes and ornate wigs? No clue…give up? Well, TGForum would like to introduce you the the answer — Miss LaLa McCallan. Besides the uniqueness of her stage presence, what also stands out about LaLa is […]
Kalina Isato’s Stochastic Musings
This month Miss Kalina Isato talks about why we should all strive to be a ma’am and not a man; she gives us her restroom and dressing room views; tells what it’s like being someone’s muse; expounds on why youth is but a ruse, beauty studies in the news, and much, much more. Speaking of […]
Stormy Monday
California got drenched last week. This Monday it’s the northeast’s turn. So what’s a poor T girl to do? Just snuggle up in something silky and read your TGForum Monday Edition. What’s the first item on our Monday agenda? It’s News Editor Ronnie Rho’s This Week In Transgenderism. Ronnie has gathered the TG news of […]
Why You Need A Makeover
You need a makeover because from time to time we all fall into a rut. And the dirt and scratches do nothing for us. Seriously, I’ve been doing this crossdressing thing for quite some time and in years gone by I’ve done the over-the-top look for drag events or clubbing in NYC but for the […]
Theresa — Chapter 46
The Story So Far (TGF subscribers can read earlier installments. Search the Library for “Theresa.”): After the Tuesday night opening performance of Shrew, Terence/Terri is approached by Martin Kovak, a reporter and sometime theatre critic. He seems to be greatly interested in Terence’s background – did he ever play Juliet, for instance. Terence stonewalls him […]
The TGForum Monday Edition
We’re glad you could join us today for the TGForum Monday Edition. Monday is the day we bring you new content and, oops, we’ve done it again. We always start the Monday Edition with This Week In Transgenderism by our News Editor Ronnie Rho. Miss Rho has scoured the planet for stories with a TG […]
PERPETUAL CHANGE — CD Review
HOUSE OF JOY by Roger Anthony Yolanda Mapes CD review Starting with this first installment of Perpetual Change for the new year, we’re going to post the occasional CD review. With all the great music being released by the many talented artists within the GLB and trans music communities, it would be a shame not […]
TG History — Butcher Brown, Part 3
“I swear this oath by Apollo Physician, by Asclepius, by Health and by all the gods and goddesses: In whatsoever place that I enter I will enter to help the sick and heal the injured — and I will do no harm.” — The Hippocratic Oath Note: For the full article please refer to Part […]
It’s The TGF Monday Experience
Hi TGFers! The Monday Edition was sounding a bit drab so I decided to rebrand this little digest of what we’ve got for you this Monday as the TGF Monday Experience. It kind of fits with the hyperbole that’s being applied to everything in the 21st century. Not just an “edition” but an “experience.” Ooooohhhh. […]
TransActive: The Transsexual Taliban
Fanatics of every stripe are pretty much a bummer to hang out with after awhile. . . unless you’re a fellow fanatic. They tend to be shrill, angry, single minded, self-righteous, unhinged, unable to absorb reason, unwilling to examine their beliefs, repetitive to the point of agony and they don’t know how to shut the […]
Strangest Situations of 2009
We have just passed through the time of year when the media subject us to lists of ‘things’ from the year just passed. Ten Greatest Sports Stories, Newsmakers of the Year, Greatest Natural Disasters. It got me to thinking of what would be on the highlight reel for the TG community. I’ll bet Ronnie could […]
Out Among the Living
To be, or not to be, that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing them, end them.” My degree is in English, and while I knew what Will Shakespeare was getting at […]
The TGForum First Monday in the New Year Edition
Happy New Year! Today is the first day of the rest of… oops, sorry. I got carried away. I meant to just simply state that it’s the first Monday of a whole new decade. I think. Maybe not. does it actually start with 2011? I get confused so easily. I though going with a darker […]
This Week in Transgenderism 1/4/10
Voted off Big Brother The President taps a TG for a government job. Not one, but two crossdressing mayors make the news. An inmate is kept in solitary confinement and called an “it.” More on the crossdressing cafes in Tokyo. Key West drops a drag queen. Gender bending on Big Brother. A Presidential hopeful wants […]
