Tag: conference

Emily on Target — A Keystone shopping experience

| Apr 1, 2013 | Reply

A first time Keystone Conference attendee came to the event with almost no femme clothes. She needed everything but a wig. She went shopping near the hotel and had some interesting interactions with store employees — and one downright fantastic makeover.

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Keystone Conference 2013 in Two Stories

| Mar 18, 2013 | Reply

Sophie Lynne attended the 5th Annual Keystone Conference this past weekend in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She has filed a report on the event and on two people she met there.

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Transsexualism at Sixty: Part II

| Mar 4, 2013 | Reply

Dallas Denny wrote a paper 20 years ago. Forty years had passed since Christine Jorgensen’s return to the U.S. after SRS in Denmark, so Dallas called the piece Transsexualism at Forty. Now her paper is 20-years-old and transsexualism is 60. Here’s part II of her update.

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5th Annual Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Summit

| Mar 4, 2013 | Reply

Texas Universities face new challenges in regard to pluralism and the respect of diversity in its many forms among faculty, student, staff, and the communities wherein they reside. Oftentimes a strategic approach that utilizes the grassroots power of the members of these institutions in collaboration with leaders at high administrative levels yields the most positive […]

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First Event 2013

| Feb 25, 2013 | Reply

The Co-Chairs of First Event 2013 have sent us a report on how that event unfolded in January 23-27 in Peabody, Massachusetts. With a keynote address from Amanda Simpson, a wedding, fashion show, cabaret and dance party — and more — the convention was a great success.

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SCC — One Girl’s Adventure: Part 2

| Oct 22, 2012 | Reply

Last week Linda reported on the start of a long phone conversation she had with her friend Leah. They were talking about Leah’s trip to Atlanta to attend this year’s Southern Comfort Conference. The conversation continued as Leah recounted to Linda how she spent her days and nights in Atlanta.

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Southern Comfort Conference — One Girl’s Adventure

| Oct 15, 2012 | Reply

Linda’s friend, Leah, calls her to talk about the great time she had at the world’s most famous and well-attended transgender conference. Leah has so much to say it will take us two weeks to tell it to you.

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Leah Does Chicago

| Jul 23, 2012 | Reply

Linda meets a good friend who tells Linda about her adventures going to and being at the 2012 Be All Conference in Chicago. As a result Linda learns an important lesson about the benefits of transgender conferences.

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The Keystone Tango

| Apr 2, 2012 | Reply

Sophie Lynne attended the 4th Annual Keystone Conference in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania last week and she has filed a report about the conference and all the fun she had. Lucky girl!

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Week at the Beach

| Nov 7, 2011 | Reply

Sophie Lynne has been away at at little event called Beauty and the Beach. As soon as she got back to her computer she sent us her account of the event along with some pictures to share with TGF readers.

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Fantasia Fair 2011 — Epiphany #2

| Nov 7, 2011 | Reply

Hebe Dotson hadn’t been out of the house in women’s clothing, at all, until she went to Fantasia Fair last year at the age of 80. This year she went back. She has photos to prove it, and after the Fair she had epiphany #2. Why not dress full time?

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Empire Conference issues call for presenters

| Sep 19, 2011 | Reply

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.”

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The 2011 Empire Conference

| May 16, 2011 | Reply

After spending decades in her closet, “Scoop” Dotson has emerged for a second time to cover a big TG party, the Empire Conference in Albany, NY (her first was Fantasia Fair, last October in Provincetown, MA).

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