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Beautiful Darling: Bittersweet Candy
There is little question Candy Darling is a key icon of the trans and gender variant communities. In her short life she created a mystique nearly akin to James Dean or Marilyn Monroe among wider...
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Susi Graf's Lost in the Crowd
Kimy (l) and Nicole (r) lament their tough roadsLost in the Crowd is Susi Graf's often heartbreaking documentary about homeless queer and trans youth in New York City. It was filmed over a 7-year...
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Almost Perfect: Transphobia exploredin young adult fiction
ALMOST PERFECTA Novel byBrian KatcherYoung Adult Fiction is usually defined as novels aimed at an audience between 13 and 20 with the main characters being adolescents. It's one of the few parts of the...
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Trans Francisco: postcards from the edge
Kayla not in love in a veryromantic city.Here's a link to the trailer for Trans FranciscoGlenn Davis' absorbing new documentary, Trans Francisco, had its premiere in front of a cheering full house...
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"Pretending to be a boy" to corrupt minors
Dye's mugshotOn the outskirts of Cincinnati, Ohio a drama is playing out which has resonances in the trans community. A person identified by news sources as a 31-year old woman, Patricia Dye of...
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when is a widow not a widow
Nikki and Thomas Araguz married in early 2008 in Wharton, a town near Houston, TX. He had been working as a volunteer firefighter and studying to become an EMT. Nikki, his wife, who was born in...
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A f*lm r*view
"Should we be in this movie or not?"(DON'T... OPEN... THE DOOR)**WARNING, THERE ARE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW**A week ago, at the Viz Theater in San Francisco's Japantown complex, I "bit the bullet"...
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Paul Soileau and Christeene:the new Shirley Q Liquor?
White guy Soileau (l) and Christeene (r)Paul Soileau is a white, gay, self-described performance artist whose main creative outlet is drag. A native of Louisiana, after a stint in the East Village in...
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We own you... yet another gay male comic gets big trans laffs
Left: Serrato... Right: HeavenMichael Serrato, an LA-based former member of the Logo network program "The Big, Gay Sketch Show" is a gay man who, yes, occasionally performs as a "tranny hooker"...
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Mother, NY... no more 'Mad Men'?
Thank you, creatives at Mother, NY! Nothing likea man in a wig with a mustache to saytranny loser! har har *slaps knee*Mother, NY is an award-winning (2009 agency of the year as determined by...
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Jonathan Ames: pasteurized not homogenized
Paul Dano as Louis in drag: trying to looklike Katie HolmesJonathan Ames' book "The Extra Man" is basically two stories woven together. The first being the relationship between Louis, a 20-something,...
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Anna Madrigal: The Same Old Cis?
Trans landlady, Anna Madrigal (Olympia Dukakis, L.) sizesup her new tenant, naive cis, white girlMary Ann Singleton (Laura Linney, R.)If one were to ask those who care about such things which is the...
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Trans-themed teen fiction: Jumpstart the World.
Catherine Ryan Hyde's Jumpstart the World is one of several recent young adult novels which incorporate trans characters or themes. Somewhat like soap operas, YAF (Young Adult Fiction) as a genre tends...
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I Am J: Boy Meets World
I Am J, a new young adult novel by Cris Beam, concerns a trans boy coming to terms with his identity and the realities of dealing with transition, school, his self-expression, disclosure of trans...
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Nina Here Nor There: Whose Narrative Is It?
Nick Krieger's new transition autobiography "Nina Here Nor There" joins the bookcase of similar such stories albeit with a slight twist—his is clearly a genderqueer transition. It joins people like...
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The Road Less Traveled
Gun Hill Road, the new Bronx-based family saga directed by Rashaad Ernesto Green both breaks new ground and gets stuck in some very old muck as well. Its 'road less traveled' is casting the role of a...
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Pedro's Trans Skin
NOTE: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SOME MINIMAL SPOILERS. "The Skin I Live In," is Pedro Admodovar's 18th film and, perhaps, his most talked about since "All About My Mother." It's a welcome switch from his...
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Tomboy... an experiment in indentity.
French director Céline Sciamma's second feature, "Tomboy" is, on the surface (as I've seen it described), a film about a 10-year old girl pretending to be a boy. Laure has just moved into a new...
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FIrst Person True: A Hijra Life Story
Revathi herselfEstimated at between 5-8 million (and possibly much higher since this figure is mostly transfeminine people and not transmasculine), the transgender community of India constitutes what...
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The Singular Identity of Albert Nobbs
Glenn Close+Chance the Gardener (from Being There)+Charlie Chaplin+Mr. Hudson (from Upstairs/Downstairs)=Albert Nobbs"The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs" by Irish novelist George Moore is a short story...
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