Dallas Denny continues her report on Tapestry Magazine’s history, and expands today to cover efforts to preserve the written matter that comes from countless local group’s newsletters as well as the major magazines that were published in the 1980s and ’90s.
Christy Lewis isn’t an early adopter of technology for technology’s sake. While working in the digital information biz she doesn’t own a cell phone and plans to never have one. But in other areas she is, as she says in today’s blog, “quite willing at times to take the lead and initiative in placing myself out in the open from a transgender perspective.”
For Savannah it’s full speed ahead into the good life. Her career is on track for big rewards, her personal life is doing fine and in just the last chapter she met an interesting man when she treated herself to a delicious dinner. The man has since become attached to her and they make plans to attend the opera.
While assembling the stories for the new Cecilia Barzyk comes across silly fools who don’t understand transgender issues and just don’t care to. They bash us and introduce legislation against us. We call these people twits and in this post Cecilia tells you who they are and what they’ve said and done that makes them a twit.
A trans woman in New Jersey is the first openly transgender person to serve on the governor’s cabinet. Insider reports that trans women are often victims of violence from their domestic partners. One third of the homicides of trans women go unsolved. A judge rules the North Carolina State Health Plan must cover gender-affirming care. Ohio cuts genital exams from its anti-trans athlete bill. Kristen Beck is reported to have detransitioned. The Club Q shooter’s attorneys used male pronouns at his latest hearing, so, not nonbinary then? A new movie will tell the story of a Filipino trans woman who joined the feared Japanese criminal organization Yakuza. There’s much more waiting for your perusal in Trans News Now.
What do you get when Chef Dina takes some conventional thinking, stirs in a half a cup of faux vintage lesbian art, folds in a dash of international lady of mystery and celebrity, seasons with some modern grandmas then bakes the dish in a 360 degree oven till done? Oh, and glazes the whole dish with a tribute to the evolution of the derrière? You get another one of the delicious house specials at Dina’s Diner!
What’s the news about trans visibility in film and video? Eddie Izzard talks about her one woman show on Late Night with Steven Colbert. There’s no joy in Joyland after the Pakistani government bans showings of the film. Elliot Page has written a book that will be out next year. NBC produces a short-form documentary on a trans child and his family as they experience government oppression in Texas. Nicole Maines is in a Hulu movie titled Darby and the Dead. Check it out in Transgender in Film and Video.
We again this year have the Winter Solstice occur with a new moon, making things extremely dark. This is why so many far northern cultures developed the Yule festivals in the first place. Of course practices from the Yule are what are seen now in the Christmas tree, the Hanukkah and Kwanzaa candles and many other winter holiday features. We work to bring light into a very dark time in our lives.
Part I of this series about the late trans magazine Tapestry followed its timeline across its thirty-year lifespan. Part II discussed the development of transgender personal ads in general and their trajectory in Tapestry in particular. In Part III, Dallas Denny discusses her personal experience as editor-in-chief and why she resigned.
While assembling the stories for the new Cecilia Barzyk comes across silly fools who don’t understand transgender issues and just don’t care to. They bash us and introduce legislation against us. We call these people twits and in this post Cecilia tells you who they are and what they’ve said and done that makes them a twit.
What’s new? Washington, D.C. passes a sanctuary law that covers those seeking refuge from anti-trans laws. Ten transgender attorneys will argue a case at the Supreme Court. Nonbinary comic Mae Martin has a Netflix special. Concentration on the culture war instead of real policy may have negatively impacted the GOP is the midterms. Undeterred the party has plans to investigate the Dept. of Education when they take over the House. Legal battles are coming against anti-trans legislation. Psychiatric Times reports that transitioning is the best medicine for trans people. A trans activist in California is accused of murder. A trans woman who participated in the attack on the Capital has been convicted. Chaz Bono and his mom are getting an award. Homeland Security anticipates copycats emulating the Club Q massacre. There’s all that and a lot more waiting for you to look over in Trans News Now.
Born in Montreal, Canada, Grae Phillips came to national attention in the ’80s and ’90s by appearing on over a dozen talk shows, entertainment programs and news broadcasts. At present, Phillips is filming a documentary on his extraordinary life journey entertaining as a woman and all the challenges that it brings.
Dallas Denny returns today with Part 2 of the history of Tapestry Magazine. It began in the late ’70s as a typewritten newsletter and became over the next decade the go-to publication for information on all things trans. Today Dallas reports on how personal ads became a part of Tapestry, and other transgender publications.
Recently Linda has been going through an identity crisis that has had her questioning her future in the TG lifestyle. She had even started working on an “exit strategy” and was considering how best to get rid of her extensive wardrobe of femme attire. And then it happened.
Someone viewed Liberty Storer’s blog on living with a crossdresser and found it nasty. They didn’t like it so much that they sent her a message outlining all the reasons it made them ill. This caused Liberty to try and imagine why someone would keep eating something that tasted bad.
While assembling the stories for the new Cecilia Barzyk comes across silly fools who don’t understand transgender issues and just don’t care to. They bash us and introduce legislation against us. We call these people twits and in this post Cecilia tells you who they are and what they’ve said and done that makes them a twit.
Amy Schneider win the Jeopardy Tournament of Champions. Stephen Fry urges J.K. Rowlings and her critics to back off. A trans woman was killed in the Club Q attack and another trans woman helped to subdue the attacker. The attacker’s lawyers insist he is nonbinary. Learn about Hawaii’s third gender. Who can change their legal gender in Ohio is up to the local judge. The executive director of the beleaguered Mermaids organization working for trans children in England steps down. Spain’s bill recognizing legal gender change is headed for debate. Two-Spirit youths have a special camp they can attend. There’s much more waiting for you in Trans News Now!
if there’s one thing you can say about Kandi Robbins it’s that she is busy, busy, busy. October saw her modeling bridal gowns in two bridal shows. She was selected to be Miss December in a calendar, and she had an online conversation with Tom Hanks. Kandi is so busy that she had no time to write a blog post for TGF so she sent us photos and videos from the bridal shows
Dallas Denny joins our New Content today with Part 1 of the history of Tapestry Magazine. It began in the late ’70s as a typewritten newsletter and became over the next decade the go-to publication for information on all things trans. It was through one of the personal ads in Tapestry that our editor Angela Gardner first made contact with other crossdressers, including JoAnn Roberts, which led to a long association with JoAnn’s LadyLike magazine and TGFroum.
Many times people become separated from their families. This occurs for a variety of reasons. Oftentimes transgender people either leave their biological family rather than face coming out to them, or, more often, they do come out and are rejected by those who should offer love and support. Today Dana Bevan looks at the idea of finding home in a chosen family.
Lights! Camera! Action! It’s another glittering glamorus production of Trans Tainment! Today with several stories about Broadway shows, some new music from a Canadian queen, and a singer/songwriter from Ghana. Also the return of a long lost documentary on Spanish sex workers in 1983. Check it all out in TransTainment.
A self-described “beat up trans girl” sits in her lonely room after learning the woman she was with was keeping a big secret. She is at the lowest point of depression when she hears the “pa-ting” of her text message app. Who could it be disturbing her gloom?
While assembling the stories for the new Cecilia Barzyk comes across silly fools who don’t understand transgender issues and just don’t care to. They bash us and introduce legislation against us. We call these people twits and in this post Cecilia tells you who they are and what they’ve said and done that makes them a twit.
Time for the news! “Equality Voters” who value human rights and LGBTQ rights made a positive difference in the election outcome. San Francisco is looking for a drag laureate, and starting a program to give low-income trans and nonbinary residents a monthly check. Sunday was Transgender Day of Remembrance. Donald Trump is identified as the most anti-LGBTQ+ president in modern times. Amy Schneider appears before the Ohio legislature during their consideration of a ban on gender-affirming care for minors. Texas Republican legislators have pre-filed 17 bills for the next session that target LGBTQ people. Kim Petras drops a new single. No ad in a legal newspaper is needed to change your name in New Jersey. A trans woman who participated in the Capital siege on January 6 has apologized. Get all those stories and more in this week’s Trans News Now!
Christy Lewis feels that people are becoming increasingly used to seeing transgender characters and personalities portrayed in media andthat is a good things but she believes it’s more important that the public sees transgender individuals in their midst, whom they know and can identify by name, and are engaging, confident people with whom they interact directly. Read on for the rest of The View From Christy’s World.
This Retro Rerun post from the TGForum Archives was the first in a series of reviews of books with transgender themes or characters. The reviewer was Elizabeth Parker and she started writing book reviews for TGF in 1997. In this post she reviews two books, one with what is surely a trans woman main character and the other that features a detective who adopts the guise of a woman to do his investigation. Both books are available through Amazon and Goodreads.
