TransTainment: Transgender People in Show Biz
Dylan Mulvaney is celebrating the second anniversary of her transition with a new song titled Days Of Girlhood. It’s a rockin’ tune as you will hear when you play it right here.
Jinkx Monsoon returns to the New York City stage in the role of Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors. Feed me Seymour! She made her Broadway debut last year as Matron ‘Mama’ Morton in Chicago. Jinkx is proving to the world that she’s much more than a drag performer. She will be stepping in to play Audrey on April 2. Learn more from Broadway World.
Thomas Gibson and Charles Busch.
After doing a few shows out of town (in New Jersey) Charles Busch’s new play has shaken out the bugs and is ready for the Big Apple. Ibsen’s Ghost: An Irresponsible Biographical Fantasy finds Busch portraying the wife of Norwegian playwright Henrik Johan Ibsen. The show is underway at Off-Broadway’s 59E59 in New York City where it will run till April 14. Learn more and see some photos of the cast on stage in Playbill.
Alexandra Billings, the first trans person to star in the Broadway production of Wicked and one of the actors who gained notoriety in the cast of the Emmy winning show Transparent is starring in a new film as a character named Malibu, a leader in Toronto’s LGBTQ+ community, who is trying to save her bar from developer’s. Here’s the trailer with more info on Queen Tut.
The Triangle productions! presentation of Make Me Gorgeous!, The True Story of Kenneth “Mr. Madam” Marlowe celebrated 100 performances at Off-Broadway’s Playhouse 46 at St. Luke’s on March 7, 2024. The current cast continues in the show till March 24. Learn more from Playbill.
Lady Gaga and Dylan Mulvaney.
Lady Gaga, well known ally of the LGBTQ community, came to the defense of Dylan Mulvaney after Mulvaney appeared in a photo with Lady Gaga that she posted on International Women’s Day. The photo provoked the usual cavemen to throw “vitriol and hatred” at Mulvaney, yelling online that she isn’t a woman. On March 11 Gaga posted the same photo to Instagram defying the haters and supporting Mulvaney. Find out what Lady Gaga said in Pink News. Billboard also covered the story.
Jackie Shane
Transgender soul singer Jackie Shane disappeared from the music world in 1971 after she spent the ‘60s packing Toronto nightclubs. She only resurfaced when news of her death in Nashville was learned about in 2019. Now there is a documentary film titled Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story that unravels the the mystery of where Shane went and how she lived as a recluse until her passing. Read about it in The Hollywood Reporter.
RuPaul in the ’80s.
RuPaul Charles has written a book titled The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir. The queen of Drag Race looks back on her life before fame and tells how she achieved it. Vanity Fair has an excerpt from the book: RuPaul: 1980s NYC Wasn’t Ready for My Brand of Drag Queen “Kindness”.
Cei Bell, 68, of Philadelphia, a longtime transgender advocate and social equality activist, award-winning writer, and artist, died Tuesday, Feb. 12, of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease at her home. Her obituary may be found in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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About the Author (Author Profile)
Angela Gardner is a founding member of The Renaissance Transgender Assoc., Inc., former editor of its newsletter and magazine, Transgender Community News. She was the Diva of Dish for TGF in the late 1990s and Editor of LadyLike magazine until its untimely demise. She has appeared in film and television shows portraying TG characters, as well as representing Renaissance on numerous talk shows.Subscribe
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