Sunday, December 02, 2007
Bobby Darling Talks About Begum Nawazish Ali
Recall that gender as a kind of language is composed of both verbal and nonverbal behavior. . .here, especially, observe a nonverbal part of gender.
India: 'Ranbir makes me swoon'
30 November 2007
Harsha Bhatnagar
Bobby Darling's case is that of a woman's soul trapped in the man's body. She (that’s how Bobby prefers to be addressed) is desperately trying to break free, but there's still sometime before she actually goes for a sex change operation.
Till then she is doing her bit - concentrating on her career and accumulating money for her surgery and exhibiting sheer grit by openly admitting that she is a transsexual. Bobby Darling has just finished shooting for a Hollywood project in which she does a pole dance.
Booming career
Bobby Darling is shuttling from one location to another with a plethora of projects in her kitty. She has just returned from the US after shooting for 20 days for Club 007. "I play a pole dancer in it and I have got a 20-minute role in the film. It's a very erotic dance and men are just going to love it."
Struggle continues
It's been almost seven years since Bobby plunged into the glam world. Though she says she has started getting her due in the industry, she still has to go a long way when it comes to her personal life. "People like me are rebuked and humiliated ever so often. People like me hide from the world, but I chose to come out in the open." On an emotional note she adds, "People tell me I am going against the laws of the nature, but nature chose me to be what I am. It's claustrophobic to live like this. I realised that I was different from other boys when I was in Std VIII and when my parents came to know about it, they disowned me, so did the entire world."
It hurts
Bobby's sexual orientation is difficult to comprehend for many, but for her, life can get very suffocating. So what does she do when things get too much to handle. With a deep sigh she adds, "I just cry my heart out. Otherwise, I go for a stroll on the beach or shop like a mad woman." She adds, "I have no friends. I am all by myself. It hurts when people don't understand what you are going through and make fun of you."
Under the knife
Bobby had entered a reality show to earn money to undergo the gender change operation, but unfortunately she was voted out early. Ask Bobby when she finally plans to go under the knife and she answers, "I have given myself three more years in which I will earn enough to fund the operation. I have to get it done and then I will be a complete human being."
Seeking a companion
Like any other human being, Bobby too longs for a companion. Ask her whether she would ever find someone and pat comes the reply, "Of course yes. If God made me, then He definitely has made someone for me. I just have to wait for the right time. One day I will have a family of my own."
The chill out scene
Ask Bobby how does she chill out when she is not working and she says, "I love to travel, shop and try on new makeup. I shop for lipsticks, clothes, sandals, perfumes and everything girls like. I have 35 wigs and I try them on and pose in front of the mirror like other girls. I am also a good cook."
Of chikna Ranbir
Bobby Darling goes gaga over the latest Bollywood hottie, Ranbir. She coos, "He makes me swoon. He's a chikna and has that freshness. That perfect look is too good and his teeth are so cute." Bobby tells us that when she had met Ranbir three years back she had predicted that he would make it big one day. She adds, "I’m sure, I will get a chance to work with him soon." . . .
Alec Mapa to Host Transamerican Love Story
Alec Mapa
Logo announces three new LGBT reality shows
11/29/2007
By Chrys Hudson
A trio of LGBT reality shows will soon hit the airwaves courtesy of Logo. The MTV-owned channel announced today that it has given the green light to a new competition dating series, Transamerican Love Story, centered on transgender activist, artist, actress and author Calpernia Addams. Execs at the LGBT-focused Logo also announced Gimme Sugar, which will follow five women on the search for love in the L.A. lesbian nightlife and club scene, and the tentatively titled Rockdogs, which will chronicle San Francisco’s star gay basketball team as its new generation of players struggles to survive on and off the court.
The eight-episode Transamerican Love Story follows Addams as she whittles down a group of eight bachelors, living together in a Los Angeles-area home, with the help of her best friend and fellow transgender activist Andrea James. Calpernia is openly transgender to all the show’s suitors from the start of the series.
“Calpernia Addams proves that steely optimism and a genuine spirit are the universal keys to finding love,” Brian Graden, president of MTV Networks Music Group Entertainment and president of Logo, said in a release.
The show is hosted by comedian and actor Alec Mapa (Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives) and will also feature online voting at LOGOonline.com, allowing viewers to express who they think Calpernia should eliminate. Live voting results will air during the show, but the selections are Addams' alone.
The hour-long show, which will premiere in February, is executive produced by Randy Barbato, Fenton Bailey and Tom Campbell of World of Wonder Productions (Transgeneration, The Eyes Of Tammy Faye), Joe Del Hierro of Oh Really! Productions (The Big Gay Sketch Show) and co-executive produced by Julio Kollerbohm.
In Gimme Sugar’s six half-hour episodes, five “hot young friends” on the L.A. lesbian club scene bite off more than they can chew when they try to launch and promote their own club night. If they succeed, they’ll be the youngest female promoters in LA. According to Logo’s release, the girls will "fight, fall in love, break apart and come back together as they struggle to make their dream come true."
The show, which is set to premiere next summer, is executive produced by Scott A. Stone of Stone & Company (Tim Gunn’s Guide To Style, The Ride, Curl Girls), Michaline Babich (Million Dollar Listing, Welcome To The Parker) and Michelle Agnew.
A star gay basketball team in San Francisco lives together under one roof as they prepare to defend their national title in Rockdogs. During six half-hour episodes, the team will try to bring back the glory of San Francisco’s three-generation, gold-medal winning legacy of the Rockdogs.
Transgender Identity
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Aaron Raz Link and his mother, Hilda Raz, are the co-authors of a collaborative memoir called "What Becomes You." Aaron was born female and lived the first 29 years of his life as a girl named Sarah. He then went through the hormone and surgical therapies to become male and lives now as a gay man. | ||||
Transgender Woman In Trouble Again
November 30, 2007
Nathan Frick
Nathan Frick
A woman who was living as a man that got in trouble in Hamilton County earlier this year is facing new charges in west Tennessee.
Investigators say 43-year-old Alexander David Cross of Martin was arrested in Weakley County in October. Cross is accused of having sexual contact with a 16-year-old girl.
You may remember Cross, who's also known as Elaine, pleaded guilty in rape case involving a 15-year-old girl in Chattanooga earlier this year
As part of the plea agreement, Cross was ordered to register as a sex offender, stay away from the victim and change the gender on her driver's license to female.
She went back to the Hamilton County jail violating the agreement.
Back in April, Hamilton Couny jailers asked Cross to take a shower and that's when they found out Cross is a woman.
Cross is in the Weakley County under a $50-thousand bond. . . .
Comment: The title of this story should refer to Cross as a transgender man, not woman, since the information provided indicates Cross is a FtM transsexual. In addition, I suspect the order for Cross to "change the gender on her driver's license to female" is subject to legal challenge and can be considered a violation of rights for transgender persons. R.A.
Investigators say 43-year-old Alexander David Cross of Martin was arrested in Weakley County in October. Cross is accused of having sexual contact with a 16-year-old girl.
You may remember Cross, who's also known as Elaine, pleaded guilty in rape case involving a 15-year-old girl in Chattanooga earlier this year
As part of the plea agreement, Cross was ordered to register as a sex offender, stay away from the victim and change the gender on her driver's license to female.
She went back to the Hamilton County jail violating the agreement.
Back in April, Hamilton Couny jailers asked Cross to take a shower and that's when they found out Cross is a woman.
Cross is in the Weakley County under a $50-thousand bond. . . .
Comment: The title of this story should refer to Cross as a transgender man, not woman, since the information provided indicates Cross is a FtM transsexual. In addition, I suspect the order for Cross to "change the gender on her driver's license to female" is subject to legal challenge and can be considered a violation of rights for transgender persons. R.A.
'This woman said she didn't know what she was until she found S&M'
How has the internet influenced our sex lives? Antonia Leslie quizzes Anna Nolan -- who has made a TV documentary on the web and sexuality -- about this growing phenomenon.
Sunday December 02 2007
'There's a sort of safety and a freedom when you're faceless and accountable to nobody. You can be whoever you want to be and release whatever fantasy persona you have locked away inside of yourself."
TV presenter Anna Nolan is talking about the rapidly growing underworld of internet sex. Anna -- along with producer/director Alain Robinson -- has been investigating how we as a nation use the net to express and explore our sexuality, and the result is a two-part documentary, Web of Desire.
I met Anna for a coffee in the Front Lounge in Temple Bar, and was intrigued by what she told me.
"I wanted to explore the internet to see who's at the other end. Who's using it? Why they're using it, what they're getting out of it. Whether they're scared of it or whether it has freed them up in some way, whether it has changed their personality. Because it's so massive, the internet has millions upon millions of websites out there."
And do their internet personas ever start crossing over into their real lives?
"I guess that could happen," she says.
Anna believes that the people who get the most out of the internet are the ones who use it without letting it replace other aspects of their lives like a love life, a sex life, an interest or a hobby. People who use it as a means to an end. Like meeting somebody via the internet for a date.
"You know, when you're typing the first few emails and then going out and meeting that person. That sort of thing.
"But then there's the other extreme where the person is using the net for sex, instead of having sex with somebody he or she is in a relationship with. So that's certainly one area where it has been damaging for some people.
"We spoke to a guy who became addicted to internet porn. He knew it was replacing the sex he should have been having with his wife -- which might seem strange, as it's having sex with a machine and a keyboard."
I suggest that words spoken either over the phone or written in text can be extremely arousing. Phone sex is a very understandable phenomenon, as is the build-up of the erotic texting that can precede it.
"Absolutely," Anna agrees. "What this guy I was just talking about enjoyed was the whole build-up. He knew that his wife would be going to bed and he'd be sitting down there waiting to go on the net.
"This sense of expectation was a massive thing in his own head. Even the switching on of the machine and the whirring sound as the computer came alive was all part of the ritual, the turn-on, literally. All this expectation of what was about to happen was his technical foreplay, so to speak."
Did Anna herself interact with anyone sexually, on the net, during the making of the programme?
"During research I talked with this prostitute over in Singapore over the net," she says, raising her eyebrows amusingly.
Did she get turned on?
"I didn't with this prostitute, but I knew I was working. I had cameras all around me and my director looking over my shoulder."
What if she had been alone?
"Let me think about that," she pauses. "Well, I thought she was really sweet. Now, this was a transsexual, and maybe because this is a woman's point of view I was asking her things like, was she getting paid enough money. And stupid questions like, 'Where does the money go?' And of course she was telling me that her parents were ill and I was staying online longer to help her.
"After we filmed the piece I turned around to all the crew and said, 'Ah, that was so sweet, she's working to pay for her family who are ill.' And they're all going, 'Anna wake up and smell the coffee. She uses that line on everyone.'
"But to answer the question, would I be turned on if I'd been on my own? I don't know."
I persist. "If she wasn't a transsexual. If she was this really hot bird?"
"No! I wouldn't be aroused because I'd be able to see her with the web cam -- and, like we were saying just there earlier, I get far more aroused with words, like when typing in a chat room, I would find that very alluring.
"The amount of communication I had with people over the weeks while making this programme was incredible. You are striking up relationships online and you're getting to know them through their words -- and words are information, and information is currency with online relationships. You know, 'I'll tell you a little bit about myself ... You tell me a little bit about yourself.'
"And again there's the waiting, that expectation thing. So I can understand how they get hooked."
Has she ever ventured out and met -- in real life -- anybody she'd 'met' on the net?
"Yes!" she laughs. "We wanted to look at unusual minority fetishes, so we found a fetish club online and we went to one of their fetish nights. It was incredible.
"The environment wasn't exactly a sexy environment -- it was an ordinary upstairs of this pub on the Liffey -- but they had all this equipment on the walls like chains hanging down and an A-frame where you get tied up and whipped.
"And there you are, and everyone is sitting round sipping wine, in their gear, all these amazing outfits. I was so nervous going in and then so relaxed after I left. They have sets of rules and you have to adhere to them. So it's a very safe environment.
"Oh my God, tell me!" I demand. "Did you get whipped?"
"No!" she cracks up. "But I was all dressed up in my PVC outfit and I was talking with everybody, the girls who liked to get whipped and the dungeon masters. People in dog collars being led around the place. But it was the outfit that did it for me. I definitely enjoyed wearing the gear.
"I had to go in to Miss Fantasia beforehand to choose my outfit and I was immediately drawn to a certain one, a dominatrix one, so they all went, 'Oh, you're a dom at heart. But your hair is very submissive.' But I hadn't done
anything with my hair -- to me it was just a simple bad hair day. But they left me wondering, am I submissive? I still have the dom outfit though. I wonder when I'll wear it next?"
"What do you make of the whole pleasure/pain thing?" I ask. . . .
New Zealand's Georgina Beyer: Biography
"It is important to allow people who want to be positive contributors of our society regardless of sex, race, creed and gender to reach their human potential. We need all human potential to make our communities thrive, to make them more vital, the very centre of our reason for being and living. The most important thing at the end of the day is about people, people and people!" - Georgina Beyer
| FULL NAME: | Georgina Beyer |
| BORN: | Wellington 1957 |
| IWI: | Te Ati Awa, Ngäti Mutunga, Ngäti Raukawa and Ngäti Porou |
EARLY LIFE / SCHOOL
Raised in Taranaki by her Grandparents until aged 4½.
When mother remarried returned to Wellington for school, attending Wellesley College and then Onslow College. In 1970 family moved to Auckland, attended Papatoetoe High School.
CAREER
Theatrical career started having won the College Cup for Drama 1972. Following her nomination for best actress in the Guild of Film & Television Arts Award in 1987 she continued acting in Film, TV, Theatre and Cabaret until 1989 when she returned to Wellington in 1990.
Other major acting highlights include:
- 'Jewel Darl' (nominated best actress for dramatic role in 1987 G.O.F.T.A. awards)
- 'Close to Home'
- 'Inside Straight'
- 'Shark in the Park'
- 'Shortland Street' - 2 episodes
Moved to Carterton in the Wairarapa and enrolled on an Access Scheme, soon after she was teaching on the course and then became course administrator employed by the Carterton Community Centre.
1992 became a broadcaster for the morning show at TodayFM, the first FM radio station in the Wairarapa for 3 months.
Justice of the Peace since 1997.
Launched her book 'Change for the Better' published in October 1999 by Random House.
1996 - 1998 Appointed as Trustee of NZ Aids Foundation.
Patron of :
- Frontier & Western Shooting Sports Association
- Rainbow Youth
Georgina participated as a contestant in Dancing with the Stars in 2005. She has made numerous appearances on television, in media interviews and in magazine articles.
Georgina is currently rehearsing for an upcoming theatre show in Dunedin.
POLITICAL CAREER
Late in 1992 ran for the Carterton District Council in the local body elections becoming the highest polling unsuccessful candidate, losing by 14 votes.
1993 won a by-election with a clear majority.
1995 elected Mayor with a 48% majority.
1998 re-elected Mayor with 90% majority.
1999 elected Member of Parliament for Wairarapa with a 32% swing from National to Labour.
1999 - 2002 served on the following Select Committees:
- Law & Order Select Committee
- Local Government & Environment Select Committee
- MMP Review Select Committee - now disbanded with its work complete
- Primary Production Select Committee
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
- Māori Caucus
- Primary Production & Rural Affairs
- Local Government, Environment, Broadcasting and Conservation
- Arts Culture and Heritage
- Rainbow Caucus Committee
- Social Services, Justice Cultural Caucus Committee
Resigned as Mayor of Carterton in March 2000.
2002 re-elected Member of Parliament for Wairarapa with a majority of 6372.
2002 - 2005 served on the following Select Committees:
- Law & Order Select Committee
- Social Services Select Committee - As Chairperson
- Also served on a variety of Labour caucus committees.
2005 re-entered Parliament as Labour Government Member of Parliament (list position 35).
2005 - 1006 served on the following Select Committees:
- Chairperson of Social Services Select Committee
- Member of Local Government and Environment Select Committee
Resigned from Parliament in February 2007. . . .
Documentary on Transgender Politician to Be Screened at Ithaca College
12/1/2007
THACA, NY—The Out of the Closet and onto the Screen film series at Ithaca College will feature the documentary “Georgie Girl”—the story of the first transgender person to hold national office in New Zealand—on Monday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m. in Textor 103. The showing is free and open to the public.
THACA, NY—The Out of the Closet and onto the Screen film series at Ithaca College will feature the documentary “Georgie Girl”—the story of the first transgender person to hold national office in New Zealand—on Monday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m. in Textor 103. The showing is free and open to the public.
A onetime sex worker of Maori descent turned public official in New Zealand, Georgina Beyer stunned the world in 1999 by becoming the first transgender person to hold national office. With charisma, humor and charm, Beyer unapologetically recounts her fascinating life story, shares how she overcame adversity, and discloses the reasons she decided to run for office in a mostly white, conservative electorate.
The Out of the Closet and onto the Screen film series is sponsored by the Ithaca College Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Education, Outreach, and Services. This year’s series focuses on the ways people transcend, challenge and redefine gender as we know it. . . .
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