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CruelAndUnusualFilm.com
Women, transgender women such as Ashley, Linda, Anna, Yolanda and Ophelia, are incarcerated in men’s prisons across the U.S. from Wyoming to New Jersey and Florida. Denied medical and psychological treatment, victims of rape …
WindyCityMediaGroup.com – by Jacob Anderson-Minshall
?If Keith Richards was a tranny that got together with Merle Haggard, I?d be their love child,? declares trans rock ing?nue Shawna Virago. ?Only a lot better-looking.?
Dubbed ?the sex symbol la…
EvolutionPublishing.com.au – By Lian Low
Lian Low explores the world of King Victoria, and the art of drag kings.
Beau Heartbreaker? Scon Bott? Rocco D’Amore? Koko Mas? Do these names ring a bell? They should, because these local drag king celebr…
TheStar.com – Peter Howell – Movie Critic
Hollywood – John Travolta can still do his smooth disco moves from Saturday Night Fever and his rock ‘n’ roll struts from Grease. They just might take a little longer.
“Sure,” he says with a big grin, whe…
SFGate.com – Reviewed by Julie Foster
Whipping Girl
A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
By Julia Serano
SEAL PRESS; 390 PAGES; $15.95 PAPERBACK
Femininity is under attack, and not just from the usual culprits…
Reuters.com
New York (Reuters Life!) – A drag queen has taken the art of selling Tupperware to a new level by turning his story into an off-Broadway show.
Instead of demonstrating the plastic containers at coffee mornings and parties in suburban ho…
Star-eCentral.com – By Kee Hua Chee
Pesona Pictures Waris Jari Hantu (Spirit of the Tiger) examines a little known myth in Negeri Sembilan.
Is horror a formula for box office success these days? The two Pontianak movies produced by Pesona Pictur…
LEP.co.uk
A drag queen from Lancaster is about to make a splash on Preston’s amateur stage with a play in which nobody speaks at all.
Ben Muir, 31, wrote the play for the After Dark Theatre company to perform at the Preston One Act Play Festival …
BrooklynEagle.com – by Brooklyn Eagle
Brooklyn – Harvey Forbes Fierstein was born in Brooklyn on June 6, 1954, to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Eastern Europe. His father, a handkerchief manufacturer, died in 1976. His mother, Jacqueline, w…
PublishersWeekly.com
Word that Jeffrey Eugenides? 2003 novel Middlesex would be Oprah?s next Book Club pick trickled out last weekend, as hundreds of booksellers gathered at Book Expo. Some received their shipments of the $15 paperback last week, an…