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Advocate.com – By Louis Virtel
An Emmy-nominated soap star turned her harrowing experience with her hair into a business to help transgender women.
Wig industry maven Amy Gibson relates to her transgender clientele — and not just because they pr…
HindustanTimes.com – Ajai Masand Ajai Masand Ajai Masand, Hindustan Times
Kristen Worley and Santi Soundarajan have never met. They live continents-apart, Worley in North America, Santhi in India.
But Worley, according to a report in Gaywired, a …
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Comic Eddie Izzard says he was stunned to finally crack America because studio bosses had kept turning him down for being a transvestite.
The 45-year-old is causing waves on both sides of the pond thanks to his role in US drama…
GayNZ.com – By Matt Akersten
Her name is Joyce Maynge, she’s from Sydney, and she describes herself as a “respectable housewife”. Respectable? Punters who got a very ‘close up and personal’ look at her on the big screen when she appeared at Welling…
EdgeBoston.com – by Heather Cassell – Bay Area Reporter
A recent examination into methods used by researcher and psychologist J. Michael Bailey, Ph.D., is resurrecting the controversy around his 2003 book The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of G…
Daily.Stanford.edu – By Shelby Martin
Transgender activist and author Leslie Feinberg spoke to a group of over 100 listeners in Pigott Hall last night about how LGBT struggles dovetail with the struggles against racism, poverty and imperialism.
F…
DigitalSpy.co.uk – By Nick Levine, Entertainment Reporter
Ten Things You Never Knew About Eddie Izzard
Eddie Izzard is as strong-willed and tenacious as a three-legged Mountain Rescue dog. When his brother criticised his first Edinburgh show – “…
WWeek.com – By Paul Dirksen
[Drag]SissyBoy breaks up.
Over the course of the past three years, the members of Sissyboy, Portland’s most infamous punk-drag troupe, have become local legends for their monthly shows at Holocene, in which gender-fuc…
OCRegister.com – Frank Mickadeit – Register columnist
I learned something pretty surprising about myself Friday night: I’m far more comfortable dressing up like a woman and parading around on stage in front of hundreds of people than I am sitting in…
NZHerald.co.nz – By Cliff Taylor
Former prostitute, drag queen, mayor, MP and man, Georgina Beyer has been a person of many parts – but the prospect of playing her own grandmother in a film of her life proved one role too far.
Beyer, famous as th…