Music news! TG artists Foxxjazell, Coco Peru, Rev. Yolanda, and Storm Florez are in the news! Pamela DeGroff tells you what’s up on the TG music scene, does a full review of Georgie Jessup’s new CD and a mini review of non-TG Dido’s newest.
Babs Casbar found herself tossed into an unsettling reality. Her comfortable life, or double life, was shaken away in a moment and she was left a transwoman alone. But her heart said she should find a community and be active. That led her to politics and TG activism.
Does the LGBT community have its priorities askew when it comes to the quest for gay marriage. As a TG who has had two husbands she wasn’t legally “married” to The Artist D feels qualified to discuss why pushing for marriage rights my be a distraction from a more urgent goal.
Our ex-CD’s wife has a question that may help some CDs understand why your partner is upset (to say the least) that you never told them about your crossdressing till you couldn’t take it anymore and her she had to accept you or else. Would you want that for your daughter?
Arizona softens anti-TG bathroom bill but legalize discrimination. Willam Belli and his drag crew are going to perform in Dubai. TG high school athletes in Maine can play ball. They’re holding a contest to find Miss Hell’s Kitchen. Isis King is cloudy about gender labels. Drag on campus and more!
Linda Jensen continues her series on the former Queen Mary Show Lounge in Los Angeles. Today she is stalking the “admirer” in his natural habitat. Linda profiles the admirers from The Queen as they would have been seen through the eyes of a popular television show from the past.
Kristy Snow, VP of TransCentralPA, has provided us with many photos of the latest Keystone Conference 2013. The group is already working on the 2014 Conference and word is that they have reserved all the rooms at the conference hotel. Check out the fun from 2013.
The Keystone Conference has left attendees with an array of thoughts, emotions and perspectives. Their stories continue to bubble up and we bring them to you on TGF. Susannah Robinson is one attendee who was inspired by the conference to think and write about the gender binary and crossdressing. She shares her thought’s in Keystone Reflections.
Girls are treated much differently than boys in the majority of cultures. Whether Iran or America only degree of difference varies. Gina Vizavi reviews a 1994 book called “The Difference, Growing Up Female in America.” She feels the book has insights valuable to TGs.
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.
Kate Bornstein has lung cancer. A Bollywood star appears in TV spots in drag. GLAAD expands their mission to include TGs. Sheldon makes a big bang as Frank-N-Furter. The Arizona legislature is scared of men in dresses in the lady’s room. College boys do drag in Texas. All that and more is waiting in TWIT!
Willam Belli has released a CD with the parody songs that have made waves on the Internet for the past several months. Chow Down (At Chick-fil-A), Love You Like a Big Schlong and other tunes are featured on The Wreckoning. TGF music writer, Pam DeGroff, reviews the release.
History is happening all the time and those who take the time to preserve their part of it do a service to future generations by letting them know where they came from. The TG community has a long, rich history but much of it disappeared into the mists of time. Dallas Denny tells us how to preserve our history.
The legendary cartoons of Christine-Jane have appeared in many transgender community publications in years gone by. They are part of our TG history and now they have found a home here on TGForum. Her work is a glimpse into the world of crossdressing in days gone by.
Sophie Lynne applies the basic laws of physics to the transgendered condition. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. (And we thought that was just a marketing ploy by Kenneth Cole.) Sophie explains that actions result in consequences. But no action means no progress. Find out how she feels about objects in motion.
Philly’s Mummers have a contest for drag participants. In NYC they’re looking for the next top queen. The TS MMA fighter is still in the news. Maryland nixes TG rights bill. Drag on campus. A TG comedy series is on the air. Screamin’ Hot Shoes. Yohio loses. All that and more is in TWIT!
Have you flirted with perfume? Wanted to get the scent of a woman? One of the top feminine arts is the utilization of scents to enhance your femme image. Too many leap into the vast pool of perfumes and come up smelling as if they had actually dived into a pool of perfume. Tasi Zuriack is your guide to finding your scent.
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.
Thailand’s exotic ladyboys are easily romanticized, as is the profession of prostitution. For some being paid for sexual favors seems like a dream. For the majority of the sex workers in Thailand it’s more of a nightmare. Needing the cash to pay for GRS they have no choice but to be a “hostess.”
Eddie Izzard gets an award from atheists. Sean Bean is nominated for his drag role. A Turkish actress is now an actor. A female mixed martial arts fighter used to me a man. More about the notorious Boulton & Park. Photo exhibits featuring TGs. A TG golfer. A new documentary about Divine. And more!
The Rev. Yolanda Roger Anthony Mapes not only has one of the longest names in the music business, she has a new CD with a long name. It’s called “Rev. Yolanda’s Country Gospel Kirtan Vol. 1: God Is” and our TG music columnist Pamela DeGroff has a review for you. Also some mini-reviews of new music.
Don’t ask The Artist D what’s the “in” look is for this season. She doesn’t give a damn. She has her own style and it just comes naturally without any adherence to fashion rules or attention to fashion does and don’ts. How about freakish looking surgical enhancements? She has an opinion on that too. Find out in “Baby Ugly.”
Barbra Casbar Siperstein will be posting columns about the fight for transgender rights across the United States. Today she writes about the importance of the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women act with the inclusion of “gender identity.”
Fascination with shiny, latex clothing lead Rachel on a path that earned her a place in a community with status and respect. Her latex fetish introduced her to the NYC fetish scene and she’s found a home as RachelX. Read her story of Fetish, Latex, Submission, Service.
Our crossdresser’s wife expert Dee Levy thinks that crossdressers who lie to their spouse by not disclosing that they are crossdressers before the nuptials may be exposing themselves to a lawsuit after the truth comes out and the wife throws him out. Why? Because the trauma may require years of expensive therapy.
Massachusetts schools are letting TG students use the bathroom and people are up in arms. Students in Mississippi are upset about a TG girl’s “special” rights. A frat held a fundraiser for their FtM brother’s top surgery. Buffalo is bursting with drag theater. What’s it like married to a drag queen? All that and more is in TWIT!
