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AVClub.com – By Bree Davies
It didn’t take much to pull Joel Valenzuela out of drag-queen retirement. A hairstylist and makeup artist by day, Valenzuela gave up drag in 2007 to take a break from the expensive and often mentally draining drag scene t…
SXNews.e-p.net.au – Written by Garrett Bithell
She may look like a cross between Marilyn Monroe and Jessica Rabbit, but Amanda Lepore, the world’s most famous transsexual, wouldn’t have it any other way. The living work of art spoke to Garrett B…
blogs.MiamiNewTimes.com – By Natalie O’Neill
South Beach’s legendary queen of drag, Shelley Novak, is normally full of sassy one-liners and puns about penis size. But she has a straight face when explaining: “It was like Friday the 13th. He came run…
Mirror.co.uk – By Kate Mansey, Ben Griffiths
Katie’s cross-dressing lover: The truth by his ex
The ex-girlfriend of Katie Price’s lover Alex Reid today reveals the jaw-dropping moment she stumbled into his room to find the macho cage-fighter dres…
TimesOnline.co.uk – Janice Turner
Grayson Perry is regretting his wardrobe choice. It is a drizzly North London morning and he had a tiresome errand to run at the post office. So he threw on jeans, a white T-shirt and a cardie as dull as the weather…
SFBayTimes.com – By Sister Dana Van Iquity
It was a very special visit from Jose Sarria to the GLBT Historical Society at the 499 Castro Street museum on Oct. 3 as he unveiled the display of his 1970 Coronation gown. Sarria is the founder of the Int…
TampaBay.com – By Dalia Colon, Times Staff Writer
Let’s cut to the chase: Yes, Isis King had the surgery, and no, she is not still engaged.
Last year, King polarized fans of America’s Next Top Model by becoming the reality show’s first transgend…
BusinessWire.com – CIGNA
Bloomfield, Conn. — (Business Wire) — When the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA) meets this week in Washington, D.C., for its 27th annual conference, CIGNA cardiologist Rebecca (Becky) Allison will become the orga…
SXNews.e-p.net.au – Written by Garrett Bithell
iOTA’s rise from relatively underground singer-songwriter to musical theatre juggernaut has been swift and significant. Back in 2006, the multiple ARIA-nominated Sydneysider took a gutsy leap of faith a…
TimesOnline.TypePad.com – Interview by Linda Tsang
Phillippa Kaufman, of Doughty Street Chambers, acted for a transsexual convicted killer who was born a man but has had her womanhood recognised by law and her birth certificate amended. The High Cou…