Emerson Whitney

A wildly insensitive New York Times article on the life and death of trans artist and drag performer Lorena Escalera flared tensions between the gender-variant community and the paper when it was published as part of the Sunday edition on May 14. The article, called "Woman Dies in...

LOS ANGELES, Ca. -- Rhys Ernst's films are a tactile fusion of art and queer theory with tones of subtle surreality that nudge at gender identity and real life fabulousness. Ernst's recent short film The Thing, about a woman, a transgender man, and their cat en route to...

Jenna Talackova, the 23-year-old transgender woman ejected from the Miss Universe Canada pageant on the basis of her gender identity, was represented by lawyer Gloria Allred at a press conference in Los Angeles Tuesday, April 3. Allred fervently steered the press away from inquiry into Ms. Talackova's surgical status and...

When Jim, a 25-year-old transgender man, was refused hormones in a men's prison, and when Bianca, a 19-year-old transgender woman, was kicked out of her public high school because of her gender identity, each called Dean Spade. It was in the early days of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP)...

A bathroom view of two side-by-side urinals is the book jacket graphic for Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's new anthology, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? In a femme and fearless metaphor, one of the urinals is stuffed full of jewelry, flowers,...

A bizarre section of the Identity Screening Regulations used in airports throughout Canada has sparked an Internet uproar. The section appears to ban gender-nonconforming and transgender people from boarding airplanes if their gender presentation does not match the one listed on their identification.

Despite the rumors, this...

ABC has its fingers crossed that a sitcom featuring fictionalized married, "manly" characters stumbling in heels, donning mascara, ripping hosiery, and otherwise fumbling through hyperbolized "femininity" still guarantees a laugh.

Executives at the network have given the green light to a clumsy sitcom harkening to the gender-variant satire of yore....

A wide-eyed reporter recently exclaimed to me, "It's like you're reaching a critical mass!" I pointed at my chest and mouthed, "Me?" before I realized that he meant transgender people in general.

I laughed -- couldn't help it.

The idea of a "transgender critical mass" seems silly from the...

Last night, I slouched in the center row of a mostly empty theatre while a gaggle of teen queers passed around a fuzzy microphone, reflecting on the importance of the Gay-Straight Alliance at their local high schools.

A teen with flamingo-pink leggings and immaculate eye makeup stood to address the...