A new role for Nicole Maines. An upcoming biopic on Candy Darling. The nonbinary actor playing Desire in The Sandman. Thoughts on the state of transgender representation in Hollywood. A comedy using gender reassignment as a disguise? A new song from Philly based band Sonja fronted by trans woman singer/guitarist Melissa Moore. And more!
Trans in Film and Video covers transgender actors, characters and themes in film and video. Today we report on the plans of the 10-year-old trans activist Kai Shappley, P-Valley on Starz presenting a nonbinary character, the biggest Afro wig in the world, and more. Don’t miss the showbiz trans news!
The last trailer runs, the lights dim and in front of the house the silver screen glows with the opening of another film featuring transgender characters or themes. It’s time for Transgender in Film and Video. Today there’s a trans character cast in the next season of Doctor Who. A trans character in A Million Little Things, an animated show with Zach Barack, and three films from India.
Linda Jensen recently saw the film Dawn, Her Dad, and the Tractor. The Dawn of the title left her rural home as Don. She returns after her mother passes away as Dawn, and surprises her family, and her old boyfriend, with her new gender status. Restoring an old tractor is also part of the story. Read on for Linda’s review.
While states are passing laws to limit or remove the rights of transgender people more and more transgender representation is happening. Trans actors are being cast in television and film projects and not just in primarily transgender roles. As these actors build their fan base they are using their status to advocate for transgender rights. Today Hunter Schafer and Laverne Cox have things to say about the anti trans laws. We also meet a trans woman actor in India who is the star of an award winning film, and meet Yasmin Finney of Heartstopper. And more!
TransTainment is packed with talented entertainers this month. The lead singer of Rainbow Kitten Surprise comes out as trans. MTV’s reality show Ex on the Beach features a transgender contestant. Concert pianist Sarah Davis Beuchner talks to the press. Cavetown creates bedroom pop and is about to take it on tour. The Texas pop project known as Lorelei K. features a trans vocalist who speaks out about the state’s anti-trans stance. And there’s more! Don’t miss it!
Welcome to the trans in film and video blog! RuPaul’s Drag Race contestants are getting roles in stage shows from the Drag Race fame. Elliot Page reveals what’s happening with his role on The Umbrella Academy. Showbiz is a tough career and it’s even tougher when you’re trans. A film about a transgender woman returning to her rural roots is making the rounds at festivals. A trans voiceover artist is shaking up anime. That’s just the tip of things going on. Check out the blog for more trans entertainment news.
Time for our monthly report on transgender people in film and video. Today we begin with a BBC documentary about The Frock Destroyers recording their album and going on tour. Then we’ve got info on a film from New Zealand in which a trans man returns to his family home after being estranged for ten years. We cover the career of the late Indonesian entertainer Dorce Gamalama, and another documentary on a U.K. drag queen who is a real gypsy queen. Justin Vivian Bond performs on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series. Tyler Perry speaks on whether Madea is a drag queen. Survivor has its first out trans contestant. Okay, action!
Time to catch up with transgender entertainers in TransTainment! The already overworked RuPaul Charles will add another television project to her todo list this year. Andreja Pejic appears in a film produced by David Lynch. The Recording Academy donates $150,000 to foster LGBTQ+ musical artists. Actress Rain Valdez makes her feature directorial debut. All that and more is in this month’s TransTainment!
Time to find out what’s going in entertainment news. The upcoming Batgirl movie will introduce a trans woman character into the DC universe. The actor who played Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter films stars as a man in the ’50s who is questioning his gender. Plus there’s film festival news and info about the trans character and nonbinary character who appeared in And Just Like That.
TransTainment! All the news you need about transgender people in the performing arts. Today we cover Mj Rodriguez Golden Globe win and a film she did before she blew up on Pose. Then there’s the 8 best films about trans characters, Munroe Bergdorf’s historic Cosmo cover, and one of the best songs from 2021 by Kim Petras.
The column that’s all about transgender people appearing in films and videos. Today it’s Jamie Clayton in a gender switched version of Hellraiser. Laverne Cox in a YA classic. Alexandra Grey and Trace Lysette in Dope Queens. Zackary Drucker in Framing Agnes and more.
Today in Transgender in Film and Video we meet 19-year-old transgender actress Andrea Foret. We have the trailer from a French film is which a young man wants to become Miss France. News about I Am Jazz coming back for another season. The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival. And more!
Another talent agency dedicated to repping transgender talent opens its doors. A wedding jewelry ad from India stars a transgender woman as the bride to be. Demi Lovato goes on a search for space aliens in a mini series. Nicole Maines voices a trans character in the video game Rainbow Siege. Pose wins a couple of awards and Billy Porter is the Fab G in Cinderella.
It’s time for TransTainment! News about transgender people participating in the arts and entertainment around the world. From Kim Petras’s new song and record deal to a 17-year-old trans girl who owns her own film production company, you’ll find it all in TransTainment.
TransTainment is our look at transgender people in the arts and entertainment. Today we meet Leyna Bloom who stars in Port Authority, Patti Harrison from Together Together, Jasmine Davis from the Showtime series The Chi, and Yasmin Finney who will star in Billy Porter’s directorial debut. And we reveal which trans woman will be the face of Dior in China. It’s all in TransTainment!
Drag in Cinema changes with the times and becomes Transgender Film and Video. Today we look back at male actors playing female roles in the silent era and explore a modern film with a transgender actress portraying a transgender role, and a male playing a trans part.
Transgender actors, musicians, singers, and others in art and entertainment are the focus of TransTainment! Today news about Eddie Izzard doing a film publicity tour in a semi-butch mode. Elliott Page will have to femme up for his role as a female character in The Umbrella Academy. A young trans/nonbinary actor makes news as the first on a network show. Charmed adds a transgender bruja. Patti Harrison is the first trans actor to be featured in a Disney animated film, and a box of old letters sparks a documentary film about drag performers in the 1950s. Read all about it TransTainment!
It’s TransTainment! All the news from arts and entertainment that features transgender musicians, performers, actors and artists. Today there’s news about Pose. The trans man who stars on 9-1-1: Lone Star. Josie Totah in a new film for Netflix, and more! Keep up to date on trans artistes activities!
Today Drag in Cinema looks at three films featuring male actors in drag. Coming to America with Arsenio Hall dressed as a woman in a nightclub scene playing opposite his male self, Peter O’Toole as a drunken lord in full farthingale in Rebecca’s Daughters, and Christopher Lee in the 1972 horror flick The Wicker Man. Lee is the high priestess (priest?) of a pagan cult.
It’s news from the world of the arts and entertainment. From the transgender Bond Girl to an author whose debut novel is being published by one of the top publishers, Angela Gardner rounds up the news on the creative members of the trans community.
Today we slip the constraints of linear time and bounce around the time stream to check out drag in cinema that missed covering in previous editions of Drag in Cinema. We look at Back to the Future, Part II, Trick from 1999, and the 2006 feature She’s The Man which features a female character impersonating her brother at an exclusive school. Then we stop 2010 for All Good Things, a film based on the exploits of suspected murderer Robert Durst.
Covering the show biz beat, it’s TransTaintment! We keep you up to date on what transgender actors are appearing in TV, film, and more! Today trans at the Emmys, Star Trek adds trans and non-binary characters, Indya Moore models for Jason Wu, Uncle Clifford keeps an eye on the ladies at the club and Kate Bornstein and Ryan Cassata team up in the film Two Eyes.
When Drag in Cinema looked at the films of the 1990s we missed a few instances of men in drag. Among the Pedro Almodóvar’s ninth film High Heels. It was released in 1991 and featured a male actor portraying a judge who adopts a drag performer disguise as well as another male disguise. Then we take a look at Mixed Nuts, the 1994 remake of a French comedy that features Liev Schrieber in drag. 1996 brought us I Shot Andy Warhol with two male actors portraying Warhols superstars, and then in 1999 Willem Defoe does a scene in drag in the vigilante action pic Boondock Saints. Get ready to go to the movies with Drag in Cinema!
TransTainment is about transgender people in entertainment and the arts. Today we cover a 69-year-old transgender comic, the expansion of the Drag Race empire into The Netherlands, the passing of a Philadelphia drag performer, a documentary film covering four trans activists and artist who came out of the NYC underground scene, and more!
Drag in Cinema is well into the first decade of the 21st century when we start with Hairspray in 2007 and John Travolta becoming Edna Turnblad, through the years up to 2012 and the spectacle of Ron Perlman in drag. There are a couple of other films in between and we have a video of the makeup and prosthetics it took to transform Travolta.
