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Founded in 1997, the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival was the first -- and is the longest running -- transgender film festival worldwide. In the ever-growing sea of assimilationist and mainstream LGBT film festivals, SFTFF has a very strong independent, grassroots, and DIY-embracing aesthetic.
Shawna Virago is a transgender music pioneer wh SF Weekly note "Shawna Virago is more punk than the punks." But the album's second single "Last Night's Sugar" is an earthy, folksy yet compelling song that is dark and intimate; a longing to abandon the heartbreaking reality of economic ruin and return to a sweeter past.
Transgendr teen featured in new documentary
Jaw-dropping vogue dance, boundary-breaking hip-hop, transgender opera, world champion gay ballroom, queer bomba dance, gender-bending boy bands and more hit the stage at the FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL of transgender and queer performance -- the nation’s most celebrated trans and LGBT performance festival (June 15-17 at Z Space, SF).
The audacious and electrifying conceptual photography of Robert Earp focuses on the ‘surreal realness’ of transgendering with Venus Virgin Tomarz – Named after Earp’s ‘divalicious’ collaborator and muse.
The world’s first and longest running transgender film festival celebrates its 15th Festival at the Roxie Theater on November 10-13, 2016.
An elegant piece of work, The Danish Girl captures nuances of being transgender in ways that no film before has. The multi-award nominated film is eloquent, delicate and endearing.
Song of My True Self is a book of poetry; an echo of a life in hindsight. Poetry is a very subjective medium, and each reader can find relevance to different things; it is a type of writing for which each reader finds different insights.
Transgender film production company Speed of Joy Productions emailed me recently to announce that they have their theater screening and web distribution and release dates; the scripted series will premiere all six episodes for free on Tuesday, January 19th, 2016!.
Talent is something that we are not all born with. It is a mixture of gifts, hard work and life progression. Isley Reust possesses and holds tight all of the enigmatic qualities that most people spend their entire lives attempting to develop.
