2007’s Most Predictable Lateness
Amtrak’s 2PM to Boston
NYC: Winter/Spring Partners Meetings
The Gender Identity Project presents… the Trans Partners & Trans Amorous drop-in group for partners of transgender people. It’s a bi-monthly drop-in group to provide support and community for people of all genders to discuss and explore their attraction to and relationships with trans-identified or gender non-conforming individuals.
Winter/Spring 2008
Two Wednesdays each month
7:30-9:00pm
February 6th and 20th
March 5th and 19th
April 9th and 23rd
At The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
208 West 13th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues, New York, NY 10011
www.gaycenter.org
- You may attend any or all of the above group sessions.
- Open to people currently and formerly in partnerships with trans-people and those exploring their attractions.
- No sign-up or registration is necessary.
- There is a $5 suggested donation for each group.
For more information, contact at 212.620.7310, ext. 254
Good Riddance, 2007 – #12
2007’s Biggest Oversight in Preserving NYC’s Cultural History:
Allowing CBGB to close its doors.
Even More Decline of NYC
Becca Tucker is clueless, of that I’m sure. This article she wrote – about stalking Claire Danes – is about as low as low gets. & Ignorant. To me, it’s typical of this new breed of New Yorkers who come here to be near the money and the fame and the art & who don’t understand the premise: that we, as New Yorkers, get to live around the talented, the rich, & the famous BECAUSE WE DON’T BOTHER THEM.
Celebrities come here in order to disappear a little, without hiding behind walled gates and guards. A lot of creative people want to be around people living, going to work, waking up in time to make the donuts. It’s why, I think, there are so many film-makers and writers and poets and performance artists here; we thrive off of each other’s ideas but also off of the buzz of life around us.
The point isn’t that you can stalk Claire Danes. Tons of famous people live here and would be easy enough to stalk, and that includes people who are famous for anything and everything you can imagine. But they live here because New Yorkers are famously cool and relatively unimpressed with fame; it’s a sign of your own couth, here, to not be so overwhelmed with seeing someone famous that you can keep your cool. You might smile, or even politely ask for an autograph if the person is an especial hero, but for me, the real joy has always been in watching someone I admire show up at an event I went to (like watching a Buster Keaton move with David Byrne, or seeing a Bill Irwin show while seated a couple of rows behind Robin Williams, or even seeing Rufus Wainwright with David Bowie en scene).
I mean, *of course* famous people are here, and accessible, and sometimes they even buy their own groceries. This is New York, and hello! – that’s the fucking point. It’s perfectly acceptable to wait to meet celebrities when they’re on – like at a stage door or a premiere, or a book signing or lecture or performance – but not when they’re walking their dog.
Get some manners, people. Or go back to where you came from.
(via Feministe)
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Good Riddance, 2007 – #11
2007’s Most Depressing Feminist Moment
Discovering my well-loved Harper’s, to which I’ve been a subscriber since 1986, had the lowest percentage of by-lines by women writers. (I switched to Atlantic Monthly.)
here!
I’m doing an interview with Josh & Sara of here! today at 3PM.
(& In the meanwhile, you can check out a past one with Veronica Vera. It’s #107.)
My Old Man
Aeneas has never acted his age.
Even when he was a kitten, instead of leaping off the bed, he would gingerly step on the bedframe in order to go from bed to floor. Now, however, he’s starting to look like an old man.
<< My crown prince, eyes wide shut.
Good Riddance, 2007 – #10
2007’s Most Confusing Sign
“DANGER: Do Not Walk On Ceiling” (posted, on the ceiling, in Boston’s North Station)
TG Veterans Survey
New Transgender Veterans Survey
Immediate release. Please post this everywhere.
Transgender American Veterans Association
Contact: Monica F. Helms, President
president@tavausa.org
www.tavausa.org
A new survey has been created to achieve a more accurate picture of the state of the transgender American veteran population. Many of the issues facing transgender veterans are no different than those facing the rest of the transgender community. However negotiating healthcare thru the Veterans Administration and dealing with the Department of Defense poses its own unique set of challenges. This survey is also for those transgender people who are still serving in the military and those veterans who identify and are diagnosed as intersex.
Continue reading “TG Veterans Survey”