Shelley Anne Baker interviews Elyssa Maxx Goodman, a New York-based writer and photographer specializing in non-fiction writing and documentary photography. In her book “Glitter and Concrete, A Cultural History of Drag in New York City,” she takes you on a tour of drag in the Big Apple, exploring its dynamic role, from the Jazz Age to “Drag Race” in queer liberation and urban life.
Sophie Lynne writes about Magnus Hirschfeld, the gay Jewish man who coined the word “transvestite” and became the first sex researcher in Weimar Germany. After Hitler came to power Hirschfeld’s research was burned by the Brown Shirts. Looking at recent news Sophie fears that history is repeating.
Every February in the United States, we commemorate Black History Month. We remember the horrible oppression done to those of African descent in this country, and we note the continued oppression that Black people face. We study and hopefully work to remit the horrible generational trauma that Black people live with, along with the myriad […]
David de Alba is interviewed about his career as an impersonator of Judy Garland and other female performers. He became known as the Cuban Legend while appearing at the famous Finocchio’s nightclub in San Francisco. After the interview with Ninon De Vere De Rosa scroll down to watch the entire “If I can Turn Back Time” concert.
Shelley Anne was lucky enough to land Jamison Green for this interview. Green transitioned from female to male in the 1980s and has been an advocate for transgender people with a strong focus on female to male people. He is also a busy man who is an award-winning author, activist, writer, gender consultant, and more. Meet Jamison Green in today’s Tell Shelley Anne.
On October 21 Angela Gardner was presented with the TransWeek (formerly Fantasia Fair) Pioneer Award honoring her work over the years on behalf of the transgender community. Dallas Denny writes about Angela’s contributions and lists previous recipients of the Pioneer Award.
Our title is Felicity Chandelle (1905–2008), Pilot and Crossdresser. At age ten, in 1915, young John Miller was spending his free time at a local flight school. His ambition was to become a pilot. Miller did that. First delivering the mail to Camden, New Jersey, in a gyrocopter that took off from the roof of the Philadelphia post office, and becoming an airline pilot. Then in `969 the urge for feminine glamor struck and Felicity was born. Attending crossdresser meeting and events all over the east coast she was there at historic places. This is her story, sent to TGF by Jan Brown and Dallas Denny.
Since Dee Grace LaValle began her transition nine years ago, she has been a TransWeek attendee, eventually being named executive director of TransWeek in 2018 and recognized in 2021 with the event’s highest honor, the Fantasia Fair Award. Growing up in Massachusetts, Ms. LaValle works for an international multimedia corporation and is a member of […]
In Part 5 Deborah works at being a good husband and sets crossdressing aside. Of course she can’t give it up completely. There’s that hidden suitcase with her feminine finery. But one day it’s not hidden anymore. After the divorce Deborah leaves town and relocates in Florida. There she meets a business partner and they create a nightclub called the Pleasuredome.
Every major religion has language of peace and love in its traditions. Sadly many so-called Christians have stopped reading the parts of their holy book that speaks of peace and love. Of treating your neighbor as you wish to be treated and helping those who are in need of help. Instead there are Christians who want God to smite those with whom they disagree. They pray for storms and floods to afflict those they see as enemies while ignoring our shared humanity.
Deborah Nicole is a TGForum member who is sharing her life story with you. She starts the tale when she was a young lad in the U.K. and takes you along through the years to her current residence in the USA. Readers of a certain age will find aspects of her story to be familiar and younger folks will gain some understanding of our history.
Deborah Nicole is a TGForum member who is sharing her life story with you. She starts the tale when she was a young lad in the U.K. and takes you along through the years to her current residence in the USA. Readers of a certain age will find aspects of her story to be familiar and younger folks will gain some understanding of our history. Today is Part Two.
Rabbah Rona Matlow writes about the Black trans women who were there at the beginning of the gay rights movement.
David de Alba, the Cuban Legend who performed at the world famous Finocchio Club in the 1970s and ’80s brought his show to the Winchester Theatre at the Dondero Cultural Centre in Las Vegas on April 1, 2023. The show was called, If I Can Turn Back Time. David did several musical numbers with anecdotes and stories from his childhood through to the present day. Here are the musical highlights from the show. The full show will premier here on his YouTube channel later this year.
Dallas Denny wraps up her five part series on the history of Tapestry Magazine with commentary on the role played by transgender publications in the formation of the transgender community.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rabba Rona Matlow feels that many of those who consider themselves to be Christians are not following the words of Jesus. They rely on religious texts that vary in meaning from the original texts which were written in ancient languages. The poorly translated texts that make up the evangelical Bible are what those on the right use to justify their attacks on LGBTQ+ people. Rona has studied the original scrolls that indicate God is not interested in what body houses the soul.
Some people might feel that transgender people are a new thing. not so. Chrissy Gann takes us on a tour of history and introduces us to historical figures who moved between genders. Today she introduces people people from the late 19th and early 20th centuries who were not comfortable in the gender they were born into. Read on and meet some of them.
Some people might feel that transgender people are a new thing. Today Chrissy Gann takes us on a tour of history and introduces us to historical figures who moved between genders. From 13th century Damascus to the Roman Empire and on through the centuries there have always been people who were not comfortable in the gender they were born into. Read on and meet some of them.
Rabbah Rona Matlow connects Pride with Juneteenth and demonstrates how God created us in God’s image and we were created with infinite possibility of sex and gender. And an infinite possibility of sexuality. Therefore, gay, straight, bi, pan, poly – it’s all kosher.
Holly Boswell was an author, a trans activist and a force in the evolving transgender community. She passed away in 2017. For all she did for promoting understanding of transgender issues she should have gained greater noteriety. Today our TGForum contributor Sophie Lynne admits that she had never heard of Holly Boswell. Then she mentions a few other people that should be well known in the transgender community.
Linda Jensen’s history of crossdressing as seen through her friend Linda’s eyes continues. Spoiler Alert: This supposed history of Crossdressing in the 1980s is going to read more like a history of Linda A. through the 1980s. However, a look below the surface will show how Linda’s life was reflecting the times. Btw, NSFW.
Earlier in her life Dana Bevan was working in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Today she shares memories of the city. While she was there, and still hiding her transgender nature, she attempted to contact members of the Ukrainian trans community.
