Fuck Yeah, Trannies!
RuPaul's Drag Race - Free Calendar!
That’s right! RuPaul’s Drag Race season 2 calendar download for FREE! It features all of season 2’s contestants, one for each month of the year!
Download it now and print it off! A great way to go through 2010 in style and with fabulousness!
Download Here: http://www.newnownext.com/2009/11/download-the-official-rupauls-drag-race-calendar.html
Spandex’s Gay Superheroes Battle ‘50-Foot Lesbian’
From Wired:
According to Eden’s press release, Spandex, available online and in comics shops, “follows the adventures of Liberty (glamorous transvestite superhero), Diva (a lesbian Wonder Woman), Prowler (absorbs the abilities of gay people), Glitter (male Dazzler), Indigo (beautiful French teleporter), and Mr. Muscles & Butch (strong twins).”
You can visit the official site and read Liberty’s brief bio.
TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
OOOOOOOOhhhhhhhhhhhh you dont know KIT YAN of GOOD ASIAN DRIVERS?
Get educated, kid.Today is The 11th International Transgender Day of Remembrance. People are gathering across the globe from Australia through Asia to Boston and Beyond. Join us.
Also please take a moment to call up that beautiful trans friend of yours (you know you got one!) and tell them how much you love them.
On this day we look ignorance in the eye, and press on forward towards a brighter, more understanding, more equal and united future.
Be peace.with RESPEKT and LOVE to ALL,
BROWNSTAR OUT
The 11th International Transgender Day of Remembrance was November 20th.
Candis Cayne Discusses Being Out as Transgender in Hollywood
From the glaadblog:
In observance of Transgender Day of Remembrance, GLAAD’s Entertainment Media team is proud to bring you an exclusive video of fabulously multi-talented performer Candis Cayne sharing her experiences in Hollywood as a transgender actress.Candis guest starred on this week’s episode of Nip/Tuck on FX and is best known for her groundbreaking role as Carmelita on ABC’s Dirty Sexy Money. As the first transgender actress to play a recurring transgender character on network primetime television, Candis has been a trailblazer in increasing the visibility of the transgender community. Candis recently shot a pilot called Yes, We Candis and can be seen performing every Monday night at The Abbey in West Hollywood.
Funnyman Ian Harvie telling some jokes at The Improv. Ian is Margaret Cho’s opening act and has been seen on One Night Stand Up on Logo and Comics Unleashed on ABC.
“It is the conviction to live your life as you need to – and the remarkable grace under fire – demonstrated by trans people that inspires those of us who are not trans. Every single day passes where someone, somewhere, notices that they are living their own life of quiet desperation, or are otherwise living quietly and without rocking anyone’s boat, in ways that feel wrong. But when that person – or any person – meets a trans person who lives truthfully and with love and humor and loss, it is hard for them to ignore the unbelievable beauty & fortitude you all emanate.”
Remember We’re Living 2009 – en|Gender (via genderqueer) (via start-anywhere)
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
The Kinks, Lola
Watch a one minute long sneak peak of RuPaul’s Drag Race, season 2, which is coming to Logo in February.
Transexuality and Death Metal
In 2008, Cretin frontman Dan Martinez began living as Marissa Martinez. A year-plus later, Marissa has just completed her final sexual reassignment surgery. Apparently the extreme music community has been incredibly supportive, and it sounds like she’s doing great! I had the luck to see Cretin’s first (I believe) live show in Baltimore in winter 2006 and they blew me away. This article on her is fantastic.
Read about this amazing group the Gospel Girls in a book called Gay Religion, edited by Thuma and Gray. It has some amazing esays. You should check it out. The above photo is of Morticia DeVille who lead the Gospel Girls for 20-some years. I got this from her myspace, in case you care, lol.
Lucas Silveria of The Cliks tweet session with Paris Hilton about the character Max on The L Word.
From The Queens of Drag: NYC blog:
Film and TV producer Larry Kennar (L Word, Barbershop and 50 1st Dates), season 4 Project Runway designer Jack Mackenroth and award-winning producer/director and owner of COLT Studio Group, John Rutherford, have come together to produce a television extravaganza called The Queens of Drag: NYC that explores and exploits the glamorous and ghetto-fabulous drag queen scene of New York City.
Drag legend Lady Bunny will reign supreme in this all-star cast of drag divas, which includes the ageless and evergreen Hedda Lettuce, uber-glam Sherry Vine, the hilarious Bianca Del Rio, drag superstar and extremely controversial Kevin Aviance, sexpot songstress Pepper Mint and the classless and campy Mimi Imfurst. Breakout queens nipping at their platform heels like Epiphany Get Paid, Logan Hardcore, Chandilier Period and Dallas DuBois and will join these ladies of illusion.
The Queens of Drag: NYC will highlight all the talent and drama that is synonymous with making a living as a drag superstar in the most amazing and unforgiving city in the world. Viewers will see the real grit of drag queens’ lives in and out of drag as they try to dominate the New York nightlife scene and navigate through the struggles of making it in the shiniest, filthiest city in the world.
Multiple networks have already expressed interest in the project, and filming for the pilot began in early November.
Words that make me nervous about this show: exploits, ghetto-fabulous, classless, grit, filthiest. I hope they simply have a crap copywriter. I really enjoyed RuPaul’s Drag Race and I’d like to see another show with a similar aesthetic, but it would be very easy for the concept to be ruined by disrespect or a lack of irony.
Click through to the blog to see lots of pictures and video clips of the cast.
(Ed.: I learned of this show from reading brickhause’s post, but I wanted to post the picture and a different website than the one to which she linked, so I did not reblog her post. You should go and heart her original post to give her proper tumblarity. — purpleprimate)
