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GayWired.com – By Jacob Anderson-Minshall
“I used to dress up in my mother’s clothes every chance I got,” recalls Michael D. Silverman, executive director of Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF). “Her makeup bag was my favorite toy. I’…
BurlingtonFreePress.com – By Myra Mathis-Flynn, Free Press Staff Writer
RuPaul, a well-known American drag queen once said: “I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear 7-inch heels, 4-foot wigs and skintight dresses?”
He h…
CampKC.com – by Jamie Tyroler
Donna Ross came out very publicly in Portland, Ore., before moving to Kansas City a few years ago. In April, she was in the news for her testimony to Kansas City’s Transportation and Infrastructure Committee of City Co…
EOnline.com – by Marc Malkin
Good news for Janet Jackson fans. She’s hitting the road again. Ms. Nasty tells me she’ll launch a new world tour on Sept. 11.
“The next big thing on the agenda is prepping for the tour,” Jackson says. “I’m still prom…
TampaBay.com – By Lorri Helfand, Times Staff Writer
Ask Andy Guyette about his most trying times as a city commissioner and of course he mentions Steve Stanton. “It was the hardest period of my life outside of my father’s death,” said Guyette, 50, w…
MiamiNewTimes.com – By Tamara Lush
Ban ugliness from Miami Beach.
When drag queen Shirley Q. Liquor takes the spotlight at this weekend’s Exxxotica convention in Miami Beach, she will say something like this to her audience: “I’m gonna burn me up…
Metro.co.uk – by Andrew Williams
Drag queen RuPaul, 47, was famous in the 1990s thanks to cult TV show Manhattan Cable. He has been the face of MAC cosmetics and got together with Elton John for a cover of Don’t Go Breaking My Heart in 1993. His new…
Boston.com – By Pagan Kennedy
A doctor helps children change their gender
Children have cut themselves. In some cases, 9- or 10-year-old kids have staged suicide attempts. The little boys sob unless they’re allowed to wear dresses. The girls want…
VoiceOfSanDiego.org – Interview by Emily Alpert
By day, he’s mild-mannered Alexander Williams, the sweet, somewhat nerdy boy who pampers pooches at the South Bark Dog Wash. By night, he’s a hyperkinetic star who lip-synchs before a screaming crowd a…
NYMag.com – By Ariel Levy
With a new Broadway adaptation of Cry-Baby, John Waters is a member in good standing of the American mainstream. But he’s still got the same warped obsessions he had as a teen.
‘What adult comes to the beach every summer…