Linda Jensen’s surrogate shopper idea has really taken off. Turns out the story we ran on it last month sparked enough interest for Linda to approach investors. Not just any investors — the millionaires from Shark Tank.
Wedding bells where ringing in Cuba this past weekend on Fidel Castro’s 85th birthday. A Cuban transsexual and her gay activist boyfriend got married in what the media are calling a “gay wedding.” Really? Seems like a man woman wedding to us. View the video coverage!
TransVocalizers focuses on Foxxjazell’s debut album, “Introducing Foxxjazell” as Pamela DeGroff brings us a review. Pamela also has info on TVocalists Beth Isbell, Coco Peru, Chaos and Lace and more. Plus some tips for hot new dance tracks.
Crossdressers are often fascinated by photos of their femme selves. In the days of film cameras we would take rolls and rolls of shots. Remember those hotels curtains? That hallway door? Now it’s a digital world and you can really look your best with some hints from Ronnie Rho.
The world famous female impersonation venue Finocchio’s in San Francisco closed in 1999. Now two of the performers who helped make it the premier spot for high quality drag performance, Lavern Cummings and David de Alba, are appearing live in Las Vegas.
Curves. Women have them and female minded TGs want them. The most obvious solution? A corset. But there’s more to corsets than you might think, and that’s where our fashion blogger The Artist D comes in. This month she shares her vast store of corset knowledge. Breath in while she pulls those laces tight.
This month Pamela DeGroff introduces us to a transgendered musician in Singapore who has never had a paying gig. Catrina Daimon Lee is a multi instrumentalist who mixes jazz, rock, minimalism and other musical influences to create an exciting sound that is about as far from mainstream pop as one can get.
Where ever you have humans there’s a tendency for those humans to ignore the common things they share and instead focus on the minor differences. Dallas Denny wrote an essay on the subject back in 1994 and it was never published. It’s still relevant today.
Linda takes a look at a new career possibility using the principle that she should find something she enjoys doing and get herself paid for doing it.
The TSA has changed their body imaging software. They say it’s less intrusive. While it may be less intrusive is it still a danger to transgender people? The National Center for Transgender Equality weighs in on the issue.
TVocalizers covers transgender people who sing. From the finest sopranos to the roughest baritones as long as they are TG vocalists they’re covered here. This week Pamela DeGroff features Lala McCallan, a flawless performer from Italy and Miss Tia Anna, a.k.a. Mary Harness from the U.K.
Sophie Lynne has learned that the next big struggle will be for transgender rights. And she’s learned that until we win the struggle we’re viewed as second class citizens. Inspired by the revelation she has posted her first class opinions on second class status and what it means for TGs.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So, it seems, is intent. A blogger at Queerty.com has made it known that in his opinion the forthcoming Adam Sandler film Jack and Jill is insulting to TGs since Sandler plays the sister role in drag. Watch the trailer for the film and see what you think.
For many TGs it’s hair here, there and everywhere. And while we worry that someone might see an unsightly patch of fur on a shoulder or back sometimes we don’t worry enough about the hair on our heads. In this post The Artist D gives you her philosophy of wigs!
In this Perpetual Change Pamela DeGroff interviews a hard working British TG musician named Diana Stone. Ms. Stone performs with two bands and works on solo recorded music. She’s the featured performer in this month’s Perpetual Change. Other music news, too!
In the last chapter of The New Girl people were longing for something new, a different experience, and in one case a different gender. In this chapter The Spirit decides to give people what they want, and may what they deserve. It’s Chapter 3 of The New Girl.
Since they no longer have a convention, publish a magazine or have a bookstore is IFGE, The International Foundation for Gender Education, still fulfilling its mission? Dallas Denny says no, it isn’t. And things may be worse than that.
Linda spends a rainy weekend browsing through her nephew’s book shelves and discovers some amazing similarities between her world and that of the popular fictional hero, Harry Potter. Journey with her now into The Chamber of Secrets…
Father’s day has given Sophie Lynne the inspiration for her column today. All of us have fathers of some kind or another and many of us are fathers. How does a trans lady handle being a dad or telling her dad that she’d rather be a mom? See what Sophie sez.
Israeli pop diva Aderet has a new single out and she’s sung it in French. Extraordianire! And that’s the name of the song, too. Our music maven Pam DeGroff reports on the Aderet single and gives us some tips on other tunes to check out.
JUNE 17, 2011, Washington, DC — Today, UN Human Rights Council issued a resolution that, for the first time, exclusively affirms the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people around the world. In light of increasing acts of violence and discrimination against LGBT people, the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) welcomes […]
In a press release Nikki Araguz’s attorneys vow to appeal the decision against her by the 329th Judicial District Court in Wharton County, Texas.
It’s art! It’s fashion! It’s both and it’s personified in The Artist D. D is an artist, a talk show host, a radio host, photographer, and a simple housewife. Scratch that. She’s not a housewife and there’s nothing simple about her. Artistic though, that’s another story. This month she takes on fashion and art. I bet D wins.
Pam DeGroff interviews Juliana Brown, NYC rocker who fronts the band Chaos and Lace. It used to be The Cruel Shoes. Read Perpetual Change to find out why she changed band names, what the new group is into and when they’ll have a CD out. Pam also does her famous mini reviews of some new CDs.
In Chapter 1 we learned that George is a crossdresser. His female friend at work is Nikki. Nikki has a boyfriend who she finds nice but not as attractive as someone else. George wishes out loud that his life could be different. Nikki doesn’t pay that much attention but somewhere, somewhen, a spirit hears. Find out what happens in Chapter2.
