Taika Waititi has a new film titled Next Goal Wins. It tells the story of the American Samoa soccer team that just can’t win with a comedic stance. A team member is a trans woman. Streaming video has gone OTT, Over the Top, in India and one show that opened things up for trans actors was Sacred Games. The British series Sex Education adds a transgender character. Frankie Grande plays Frank-N-Furter. Check out the showbiz transgender news!
Kim Petras teams up with Paris Hilton for a redo of Hilton’s 15-year-old hit song. A musical version of Transparent debuts in L.A.. Does the new Spider-Man movie have a trans character? Trap rapper Lil Wop comes out as a trans woman. British singer Princess Alice Manor drops a heavy metal single. Michigan musician Baddie Brooks releases her debut album. Archie Comics adds a trans woman character and a graphic novel tells the story of a drag queen assassin. Get all the news from the entertainment world from TransTainment.
Trace Lysette is a rising transgender star getting great reviews for her work in the film Monica. She plays the title character, a trans woman who reunites, and cautiously makes peace with the family she fled, as they take care of their ailing mother (played by Patricia Clarkson), who at first doesn’t recognize her daughter. […]
Trans in Film and Video reports on transgender actors and projects with transgender themes, Today we look at Eddie Redmayne’s mea culpa over portraying a trans woman character, Michaela MJ Rodriguez gets her standing ovation, Tommy Dorfman talks about the stress of presenting as male, trans actresses in New Zealand and India are recognized, trans sex workers are the subjects of documentaries, and more! Don’t miss this edition of Trans in Film and Video.
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.
Every month Angela Gardner searches the web for stories of transgender people active in the arts and entertainment. We call what she produces TransTainment. Today she has news about an ongoing role for Alexandra Billings in a SF television show, kudos to Sam Smith and Kim Petra on being number one, and more news from the world of transgender entertainment.
Shangela was at an event in the U.S. Vice President’s residence. Trixie Mattel vows to never compete on Drag Race again. Billy Porter brought house ball realness to the BET Awards. There’s a trans man on the sci-fi show Tom Swift, but it’s been canceled. Nikita Dragun is bipolar. Bretman Rock does therapy. All that and a bit more is waiting for you in TransTainment!
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.
Drag icon Vicki Rene interviewed The Cuban Legend David de Alba back in 2003. The interview was posted on Vicki’s website but when she passed away it disappeared from the web. Thanks to the devotion of one of David’s friends who found a copy and gave it to David we can present The Lost Interview.
