Recent Transgender Articles
Ninja Beauty Secrets—Styling Short Hair, Part 2
Caveat: Please skip this article if you have male pattern baldness as exhibited on the Hamilton-Norwood Scale. Great hair products are every bit as important as a great hair cut. My favorite shampoo at the moment is Aussie Moist Shampoo. It’s a fantastic shampoo with a gentle conditioner built-in. There are other great shampoos on […]
Getting What You Want: Forced Agreement
Over the weekend, I wrote a piece for a different website, before realizing I didn’t want to share my writing with them. The nominal topic was something other than trans, but truth is, I was using it as an excuse to talk community politics. So I offer it up here instead, where it might be […]
Read All About It!
Welcome to the Monday morning edition of TGForum. Today we bring you a large helping of info and entertainment. (Clicking the links in this article will take you directly to the promoed articles.) Among our offerings in today’s edition is a further exploration of TGs who sing in our Transvocalizer column by Pamela DeGroff. This […]
Transvocalizers — Lady Bunny
by Pamela DeGroff Ever encounter the word “definitive” used to describe a certain aspect of an artist’s career? The definitive album, the definitive song, or the definitive sound? For actors, there’s always that one career defining role in a movie or play. So, can this concept of something being all defining translate to one specific […]
The First Time
I know this is popular blog topic, but it is — I think — an important question to ask. When did you first realize that you wanted to dress in feminine clothing? Or when did you first realize that you’d really, really like to know what it would have been like to have been born […]
Retro Rerun — What I Wore by Cassie Sanders
Several people have complained that Cassie’s serial from several years ago, What I Wore: A Tale of a Weekend as a Woman with a Man, is not all there. Meaning it’s got chapters missing, not that it’s odd or “not quite right”. Moving things from the old ’90s TGF into another format caused several things […]
Your Morning Paper, Milady
If it’s Monday that means that I’ve been up late working over a hot computer to bring you another steaming heap of verbiage that we like to call TGForum. More than a place to upload your photos, it’s your one stop shop for all the TG news that’s fit to render on a computer monitor. […]
Perpetual Change By Pamela DeGroff 8/4/08
It’s one of those months when our musical column author, Pamela DeGroff has gathered together several short bits and pieces from press releases and other sources concerning the activities and artistry of TG muscians. In this edition of Perpetual Change she brings us news about The Cliks, jazz bassist Jennifer Leitham, some sad news from […]
Words Mean Things
You read about the kerfluffle over the word “tranny” in TWIT Notes a couple of weeks ago. And it’s high time we had a raucous debate, complete with name-calling, charges, counter-charges, hair-pulling, lawsuits and online flaming. Because the question has largely gone unanswered: Is that word offensive?
Dina’s Diner — RUN, STRIP, DRESS, & LOOK IN THE MIRROR
Dina Amberle has been reading the newspaper again…and you know what that means. She’s taken the stories that spoke to her in the loudest voices and run them into the Diner’s kitchen where she sliced, diced, spices and stewed them all into this week’s edition of Dina’s Diner. Everyone will find the latest dish at […]
The Beginning of Wisdom…
Hi everyone! It’s nice to be back from hiatus. Life is strange and I have a few stories to share, but I think I’ll start with why my name probably seems unfamiliar. And it has nothing to do with whether you’ve read my earlier essays or not. You’ve probably grokked by now, this is going […]
BOOK REVIEW — The Prophet Murders — Who’s killing Turkish TVs
Turkish author Mehmet Murat Somer has a book due for American release in September titled The Prophet Murders, A Hop-Çiki-Yaya Thriller. The most interesting part of this title, for us, is the Hop-Çiki-Yaya* part. (It’s pronounced Hope Cheeky Ya Ya.) Somer uses the term to indicate that his novel is set in the transvestite/gay community […]
Styling Short Hair, Part 1
STYLING SHORT HAIR, PART 1 Caveat: Please skip this article if you have male pattern baldness as exhibited on the Hamilton-Norwood Scale. A short, feminine hair style is one of the keys to a successful modern look. There are many short wig styles available, but none of them match the versatility you get when styling […]
Girls Will Be Girls Short — Film/Video Review
My fella and I went to see a screening in the 2008 Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival this past week. (The Festival runs through tomorrow.) I was attracted by the title, Girls Will Be Girls Shorts and the fact that Scott Thompson former member of Kids In The Hall was guest starring — […]
TWIT Notes: Midweek Updates
The TWIT never sleeps! In this special update, we have another drag queen appearing on national TV, another battle over bathroom rights, and a special TWIT of the Mid-Week!
Experiment
Believe it or not, I don’t go out to parties every weekend. Sometimes, I stay home. And generally, when I stay home, I don’t dress up. It’s a lot of work to get pretty, and my thought is: if I’m going to go through all that effort, I want to show it off. If a […]
Perpetual Change — Venus DeMars/All the Pretty Horses
In this edition of Pamela DeGroff’s Perpetual Change Pamela corners Venus DeMars, the leader of the band All The Pretty Horses, and asked her what’s been going on with the band’s lineup, and about Venus’s side project, House of Flowers. And we learn about a documentary film about ATPH that’s made the rounds of film […]
TG History — Forced Crossdressing
“You can’t make me!†There’s probably nothing in transgendered folklore that’s as provocative as the concept of forced crossdressing, especially stories about raising a young boy as a girl. On one hand, it’s a crossdressing fantasy that’s as old as, well, crossdressing. On the other hand, anything involving with the raising of children has to […]
Summer’s here and the time is right for crossdressing in the streets!
Each summer many crossdressers are faced with a dilemma. We love to dress and act like women — sexy women. That means we really love to shave our legs (and whatever other body parts we possess that may exhibit manly, hirsute tendencies) in order to be more like our female role models. If you look […]
TGs on iTunes
If you’ve been living under a rock that’s not wired for cable you may not have seen some shows from the past year that feature TGs. If that’s the case you may want to take advantage of your Internet connection and the Apple software known as iTunes. Here are two of the trans-centric shows that […]
Homogenization
The Sunday before Cincinnati’s Pride festival sees a sort of warm-up to the main event. There’s a much smaller street fair dubbed the “Drag Races”. And it’s much like it sounds. Gay men must compete in a foot race en femme. There’s also an event for lesbians as well: Dykes on Trikes. In that competition, […]
These just in…
We here at TGF’s TWIT Notes believe the phrase “breaking news” is overused. So, we’re not going to contribute to the clutter. However, from time to time, we do come across information too hot to wait until our weekly update, and so now, we break into our regularly scheduled programming to bring you these:
Dina’s Diner
This week’s Special at Dina’s Diner is a spicy stew of many tasty ingrediants cooked to perfection and brought to your table with a smile and a “How ya doin’ hon? More coffee?” from your hostess, cook and waitress Miss Dina Amberle. Before you get to the stew, a tasty treat served with saucy Turkish […]
Ninja Beauty Secrets — About My Hair
In this edition of Ninja Beauty Secrets ninja mistress Kalina Isato takes a break from secrets and answers questions about her short, short hair. Can a trans woman feel comfortable and confident making her way through life without a wig? Kalina says yes and tells you how you can do it too.
Covert Operatives
June is the time of year for GLBT Pride Day rallies and as regularly as the heat and humidity return so do cries for better “T†representation at these—and other public—events. The logic is that we’ll never be accepted by the public if we just hide ourselves; we need to raise the visibility of the […]
This Just In — A Super Hero Just For Us!
It had to happen. With multiple varieties of super heroes running around (some at light speed) exhibiting powers like telekinesis, X-ray vision, invulnerability, super speed and the ability to fly, eventually some garden variety crossdresser was going to get bitten by a radioactive Black Widow spider, or some other feminine type bug, and develop super […]
