Transpeople Who Need People

NashvilleScene.com – Posted by PJ Tobia

A few hours after this week?s Scene hit newsstands, I received a letter from the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition (posted in its entirety after the jump) regarding our cover story . The story is about…

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Satin Frocks and Housing Law

NYTimes.com – By Jennifer Bleyer

Dario Modon is a burly 64-year-old who stands 6 feet 2 and has painted-on, arched eyebrows and a coy, puckered smile. He marches around the Red Hook projects in Brooklyn, where he lives, with a long More Red cigarett…

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Transgender people emerge from closet

FortWayne.com – By Regine Labossiere

A disgruntled playboy becomes a female fashion magazine editor. A rock star born biologically male finds her true self. A boy is scripted freely adding a pair of girl?s shoes to accessorize his outfit.

Transge…

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Boyish Girl Meets Girlish Boy

Indypendent.org – By Eleanor J. Bader

Helen Boyd?s fascinating memoir-cum-social analysis, She?s Not the Man I Married, turns a personal dilemma into fodder to discuss what we mean ? or don?t mean ? when we pin gender labels on each other.

For st…

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Media image of transgendered evolves

SeattleTimes.NWSource.com – By Regine Labossiere

A disgruntled playboy becomes a female fashion magazine editor. A rock star born biologically male finds her true self. A boy is scripted freely adding a pair of girl’s shoes to accessorize his outfit…

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Queer in the Crib

VillageVoice.com – by Julia Reischel

Gay adults like to say they were born that way. So where are the gay children? Everywhere? Fabulous, baby.

On a recent spring Saturday afternoon at the American Museum of Natural History, the carpeted atrium b…

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Becoming Kevin Aviance, Again

VillageVoice.com – by Steve Weinstein

A year after he was bashed in the East Village, a New York diva is ready for his second act

Ever since he stole his mom’s makeup and clothes to perform “I Will Survive” in front of a stunned audience of fell…

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Bye, Bye, Boobies

VillageVoice.com – by Tricia Romano

Fundraising parties for trans surgery are all the rage, but don’t tell Kerry Downey that.

In the back room of Galapagos, a young, artsy crowd watched the queer-friendly, all-girl rock band Marla Hooch perform a…

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