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19 Jun 2010
My gay Alex, who knows a good thing when he sees it, made this super-fun short film about 67 year-old London trannie legend, DJ Jeannie Dee. She is quite the character!
You should become her Facebook friend.
UPDATE: From Jeannie's Facebook:
"Jeannie Dee Is amazed at the number of friends i'm accumulating from Ireland, a little puzzelled as have never appeared there (YET ...still waiting for that Dublin D.J. gig !!!) Jeannie is of half Irish ,half Italian ,parentage !!"
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28 Apr 2010
When the trailer for Ticked Off Trannies With Knives, a "trannie revenge movie" inspired by 70's exploitation movies, hit the internet some months ago it received a little attention and caused some small controversy among the trans community. Was it offensive? Or empowering (within it's genre)? The original trailer (which I posted, but has since been removed) opened with references to real trans-phobic murders and that caused the most controversy. The new trailer is below.
However, after the film was chosen for the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in New York, the controversy stepped up a gear. Various LGBT groups denounced it's portrayal of trans women, and even mounted pickets.
Now a (fun looking) trannie has written a fantastic review of the film. She's pissed off with the movie, but not for all the reasons the various LGBT groups are. And she's pissed off with them too. It's a great read. Read it all HERE.
Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives is a bad film with a few good things going for it -- and a lot of angry people going after it. When I first heard about the film, I couldn't wait to see it. Even the problematic first version of the trailer (more on that later) made it look to me like the film would be just the right blend of camp, politics, heart, sparkle, and blood, and I wrote as much online. I also wrote that some people would need to be warned about the film so they wouldn’t freak out or trigger a trauma -- I warn people about some of my own work for the same reason. But I had no question in my mind that I was about the see a kick-ass, tranny-empowering film on the big screen. Sad to say, I find that I’m the ticked-off tranny.
She also has some interesting (and right on Sister!) things to say about the relationship between drags and trannies which you don't hear very often:
Please consider this statement from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation:
“…while some of the actors in the film identify as transgender, the characters are written as drag queens, 'performing' femininity in a way that is completely artificial. The very names of these over-the-top female caricatures (Emma Grashun, Rachel Slurr, et al.) drive this point home.”
Excuse me, GLAAD. You’re lovely people. You do GREAT work. But until you add T to your name, please stop telling me and my people how to perform femininity or masculinity. Please stop driving a wedge between transgender and drag queen. It’s a classist and often racist thing to do. Yep, many of us have taken chosen names. Some of our names are funny and brave and fierce and that is in the tradition of our queen mothers and king fathers. I owe my trans-soul’s allegiance to Doris Fish, ‘Tippi,’ and Miss X. The denigration of our drag royalty is a sign of just how far the U.S. antisex culture has permeated today’s sex-and-gender mainstream activists. The drag queen moments of the film are among its most touching elements.
GLAAD continues…
“Because of its positioning as a transgender film, viewers unfamiliar with the lives of transgender women will likely leave this film with the impression that transgender women are ridiculous caricatures of 'real women.' It demeans actual transgender women who struggle for acceptance and respect in their day-to-day lives and to be valued for their contributions to our society.”
Whoa. Ticked-Off Trannies isn’t airing on PBS. It’s not being hosted by Rachel Maddow or Oprah. It’s a midnight showing at a downtown New York film festival. Just who the heck do you think is going to go to see this film? People who are concerned about the genuine portrayal of the lives of transgender women? Hell, no. It’s going to be an audience hungry for the kind of girl-gets-revenge story that men have been making up since forever.
And excuse me once again, GL(noT)AAD, but… “actual transgender women?” You actually said "actual transgender women" in opposition to drag queens? No, no, no. Transgender does not equal only trans men and trans women who make themselves and their lives as close as they can to you. Transgender is a experience shared by countless people with a limitless number of gender expressions. Drag queens and drag kings are transgender people, family, tribe. It’s a tactic of power politics to divide and conquer. The last thing we need is an ally like GL(noT)AAD unintentionally driving a wedge into our tribe along class lines, with transgender being a higher class than drag queen and therefore a more respectable identity. That’s just not true. If anything, the opposite is closer to the truth.
Drag queens and drag kings are transgender tribal royalty -- they bravely go where few men or women have gone before. Why do you suppose we call them kings and queens? They are breathtakingly brave, gorgeous, and fierce. Please keep in mind, it was the chicks with dicks and the bull daggers who led LGBT people into revolutionary battle at Stonewall in 1969. Our queens stood on the front lines for us. Do you get it, GL(noT)AAD? Without drag queens, you’d have nothing to be glad about.
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10 Mar 2010
And she's got four people's lips and ten people's tits.
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10 Jan 2010
Oscars for Best Actress and Special Effects. And a nomination for the doll.
(thanks Davina)
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22 Oct 2009
I've always had a grudging respect for Jordan/Katie Price. There's no bullshit about her, she's obviously determined and capable, and she definitely has strength of character! And of course, under all that drag make-up and silicone, she really is beautiful.
When I first heard that she was blabbing that her current boyfriend, the cage-fighter Alex Reid is a trannie who goes by the name Roxanne, I thought it was probably just another publicity stunt. Though knowing as much as i do about trannies, I didn't for a moment doubt it was plausible. Trannies tend to be very macho in their 'day' lives!
But then it appeared to be true, and when I happened across her on Graham Norton's show the other night, I was gob-smacked about how open she was about Alex's transvestism. Being Jordan, she was being all cool and fun about it, (She loves it! She thinks it's sexy! She thinks he's pretty!) but she didn't spare the details (he has a special Roxanne voice; when he's dressed he's much quieter; they have hot girly sex; etc. etc. etc) and I did wonder how Alex felt about it all being discussed so freely.
Well, clearly he's fine with it! (Or at least he's decided to be fine about it now. Apparently he wasn't at first) Because when Jordan launched her new book (about her style!) yesterday, she turned up with a bunch of her male friends, all in Jordan drag, and there among them, was Roxanne!
You've got to hand it to Jordan (and Alex of course). She really doesn't care what people think about her, and is in a way, a real revolutionary.
Here's a video...
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19 Aug 2009
I think that about covers it.
Before the internet, if you were a bass playing trannie who loved doll's clothes and puking up milk in a French maid's outfit, you would have thought you were all alone in the world. A freak. But now, due to the magic of the internet, you realise you're not alone at all! And what's more, you can make videos of yourself for the whole world to see. And I for one am all for it. You go girl!
And just in case you think this is some kind of arcane joke, done for the amusement of a mate in some kind of in-joke, well, he has loads more videos in a similar vein. They're all there. Different outfits, different hair-do's, different songs. Same bass though.
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18 Aug 2009
I don't know what this US dance show is, but it doesn't get any gayer than this! Vogueing fierce trannies, flaming ghetto dance gays, JC Chavez (the he's-gotta-be-gay one from NSYNC) and gay favourite Mario Lopez.
(thanks Chris)
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