Trans101 For Dumbasses

If you’re wanting to ask your favorite transgender person questions and you’re not that bright… this video is for you.

His Own Private Idaho: Senator Larry and the Pecking Order of Queerness vs. Straightness

“You’re living in your own Private Idaho …
Underground like a Wild Potato …
It leads you straight,
Right through the gate.” — Private Idaho, the B-52’s
It was painful to watch the Matt Lauer interview with Sen. Larry Craig on ABC’s Tuesday Night interview. Why they would allow a show to watch a man struggle mightily [...]

Déjà Vu All Over Again!?! Do We Hafta???

“So I get on my knees and pray … we won’t get fooled again!” — the Who
Fresh on the heels of Southern Comfort Conference (SCC), many of the transgender community reveled in what seemed a penultimate victory: HRC – yes, the Human Rights Campaign – was actually appearing to take the transgender community as equals. [...]

Summer Songs that helped us Survive

When I was Stone Blue … Rock and Roll sure helped me through ….
Warning beforehand, this is a fluff-piece – you’ll have to excuse me. Actually, a little of this can be blamed on Verizon commercials.
What originally inspired this was the return of typical south Texas summer heat in all its oppressively humid splendor. [...]

It’s A Tranny Inferno!

As the years go by, I tend to think that this culture is becoming more and more progressive. But I’ve seen snippets of the past that keep reminding me it isn’t exactly the case. Take this song for example, it came out in 1979.
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You think this would make it on any album, much less get [...]

The Man Who Would Be Jester

First he said:
* “Homosexual transsexuals tend to have a short time horizon, with certain pleasure in the present worth great risks for the future.”
* “Prostitution is the single most common occupation that homosexual transsexuals in our study admitted to.”
* “The more resourceful and attractive transsexual prostitutes are call girls.”
* “Nearly all the homosexual transsexuals [...]

Iran is The New San Francisco

I found this article about Iran’s support of gender reassignment. I almost laughed when I read this quote:
“Most transsexuals believe that a life in the West would be much easier for them due to the open mindedness in those societies.”
Hardly.