Saturday, December 08, 2007
Big Brother housemate auditions on YouTube
December 7, 2007
A Channel 10 Big Brother promo on YouTube inviting people to send in their audition tapes also features a mother of four who speaks to dead people, and a guy who just wants to "shag a hot chick on TV.". . .
A Channel 10 Big Brother promo on YouTube inviting people to send in their audition tapes also features a mother of four who speaks to dead people, and a guy who just wants to "shag a hot chick on TV.". . .
'Southern Comfort' more than art, more than culture
Q-Ball Productions/Next Wave Films
The story of Robert Eads` southern life made huge waves at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.
By Caitlin Rockett
December 6, 2007
The central figure in the 2001 documentary "Southern Comfort" is Robert Eads, the epitome of a man who has lived his whole life in a rural town in Georgia. He drives a huge pick-up truck, wears Hanes t-shirts tucked into his high-waisted jeans, heavy work boots and he finishes it all off with a cowboy hat. Let's not forget the perpetual cigarette dangling from his lips.
But Eads is a transgender man with cervical cancer. . . .
Business appeals to mens' feminine side
by Lucy Bolton
6 December 2007
A fashion designer is helping men across the city get in touch with their feminine side - quite literally - by designing dresses and outfits especially for them.
Gemma Partridge had been running a traditional clothes designing business for three years but decided to shift her emphasis to cater for male transvestites after being approached by a number of men who wanted dresses, corsets, and other outfits made-to-measure.
Miss Partridge, 29, from Grove Road, Norwich, signalled the start of her new cross-dressing empire by renaming the business Fem-men-couture and moving the company out of her home into an Exchange Street studio.
She said: “I was working from home initially and men would come and try my clothes on there. . . .
6 December 2007
A fashion designer is helping men across the city get in touch with their feminine side - quite literally - by designing dresses and outfits especially for them.
Gemma Partridge had been running a traditional clothes designing business for three years but decided to shift her emphasis to cater for male transvestites after being approached by a number of men who wanted dresses, corsets, and other outfits made-to-measure.
Miss Partridge, 29, from Grove Road, Norwich, signalled the start of her new cross-dressing empire by renaming the business Fem-men-couture and moving the company out of her home into an Exchange Street studio.
She said: “I was working from home initially and men would come and try my clothes on there. . . .
Still wrecked after all these years
by Brian Jewell
Dec 5, 2007
The show must go on for TraniWreck’s Aliza Shapiro
There’s good news and bad news for fans of TraniWreck and Wreckage, the deliciously demented performance art cabarets that have livened up Boston’s drag scene for the last three years. Truth Serum Productions has lost its residency at The Milky Way, and with no home base the future of Wreckage, beyond the next two scheduled shows, is up in the air. The good news is that Aliza Shapiro, the brains and sweat behind Truth Serum (and behind Wreckage’s velour-smooth MC, Heywood Wakefield,) isn’t going anywhere.
"The Milky Way is one of the few cabaret-style spaces in Boston, and that’s what our shows are suited to," said Shapiro. "So it’s kind of a shame that they’re looking to do more live music. But I plan to keep doing TraniWreck quarterly, and I’ll pitch shows to the Milky Way.". . .
Dec 5, 2007
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There’s good news and bad news for fans of TraniWreck and Wreckage, the deliciously demented performance art cabarets that have livened up Boston’s drag scene for the last three years. Truth Serum Productions has lost its residency at The Milky Way, and with no home base the future of Wreckage, beyond the next two scheduled shows, is up in the air. The good news is that Aliza Shapiro, the brains and sweat behind Truth Serum (and behind Wreckage’s velour-smooth MC, Heywood Wakefield,) isn’t going anywhere.
"The Milky Way is one of the few cabaret-style spaces in Boston, and that’s what our shows are suited to," said Shapiro. "So it’s kind of a shame that they’re looking to do more live music. But I plan to keep doing TraniWreck quarterly, and I’ll pitch shows to the Milky Way.". . .
Transgender Ga. Politician Loses Runoff
12/7/2007
RIVERDALE, Ga. (AP) — A transgender city council member lost a re-election bid in a runoff Tuesday after a lawsuit that claimed she tried to fool voters by running as a woman.
RIVERDALE, Ga. (AP) — A transgender city council member lost a re-election bid in a runoff Tuesday after a lawsuit that claimed she tried to fool voters by running as a woman.
Michelle Bruce said that even though a judge dismissed the lawsuit the day before the vote, the suit served its intended purpose.
"It was a personal attack," said Bruce, who was seeking a second term. "It was aimed at getting me out." . . .
Gay chamber hires transgender ED
New GGBA Executive Director Katherine Dean. Photo: Jane Philomen Cleland
by Matthew S. Bajko
12/6/2007With the country's LGBT community embroiled in a debate over protecting transgender people in the workplace, the nation's oldest gay chamber of commerce announced this week it has hired a post-op transsexual woman as its new executive director.
Katherine Dean, 53, took over leadership of the San Francisco-based Golden Gate Business Association Tuesday, November 27, but the chamber waited until this week to officially announce its decision. Dean replaces John D'Alessandro, who had managed the organization for the past two years and moved to Miami, Florida this week where his partner was relocated for work. . . .
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