Tag: trans

  • It is still tough being Trans at work.

    It is still tough being Trans at work.

    To mark International Day  of Trans Visibility a new Report has been published by TotalJobs which shows how tough it is to be a trans employee in the workplace.  60% have experienced transphobic discrimination, 53% felt the need to hide from the colleagues and 36% left a job because the environment was so unfriendly.  …

  • Jake Graf strips off  …. again

    Jake Graf strips off …. again

    Jake Graf has fast become one of our friends who is tough to ignore.  There doesn’t seem to be a single day go past when we do not come across this trans filmmaker and activist flashing his semi-naked body in yet another publication. When queerguru interviewed him earlier this year we dubbed him the Man…

  • Who do I look like, a girl or boy?

    Who do I look like, a girl or boy?

    When London-based queer filmmaker Joseph Wilson came out of a San Francisco Club late one summer’s night last year, he spotted a rather larger-than-life blonde sitting in her cadillac and waving a torchlight around checking the crowd out.  He was immediately drawn to her and struck up a conversation with Miss Shannon Pat a 66-year-old Californian…

  • Transgenders Get To Cruise Too

    Transgenders Get To Cruise Too

      The ‘T’ in LGBT travel stands for transgender, but the reality is that the trans men and women are in fact poorly served by our community’s tour operators who focus mainly on gay men. That however may start to change, especially if Stephanie Land has her way. This transgendered woman who has been working…

  • Uncle Gloria : One Helluva Ride

    Uncle Gloria : One Helluva Ride

    Some people wait an awful long time before they start to come to terms with the fact there were born with the wrong gender, or indeed have the wherewithal to deal with it.  Gloria Stein is one such person as she waited until she was 66 years old until she transitioned.  In this slightly stranger-than-fiction…