In case you're wondering what the heck our MMA fighting sister is up to, she's been busy training for an upcoming fight in Chicago. ...

Last July  T.G.I.F., spearheaded by local trans activist KOKUMO brought over 350 people to a first of its kind event in Chicago celebrat...

TransGriot Note:  Photo of KOKUMO by Andy Karol For you peeps in the Chicago area looking for something to do, y'all get the opport...

35 year old Coko Williams of Detroit was one of three African-American transwomen killed during the month of April 2012 along with Paige C...

Another one from the TransGriot The Newspaper Column archives that i peened in February 2005 for Black History Month. We Have a History,...

Sad news to report before I depart for Charlotte, and thanks to reader Jessica Wicks for bringing it to my attention. 19 year old Tiffan...

TGIF (Trans, Gender Non-Conforming Intersex Freedom) , the first ever trans pride event in the Midwest according to its founders will tak...

For those of you in the Chicago area, there will be a 'Justice For Paige' rally tonight hosted by the Taskforce for Prevention and...

Yesterday was my cousin Karen's birthday (Happy birthday cuz!), and my uncle, grandmother and I made the crosstown trek to Alief to ha...

I posted the trailer videos a few day ago from the I Am The Queen documentary by Josue Pellot and Henrique Cirne-Lima.   This was the initi...

I Am The Queen is a documentary produced by Josue Pellot and Henriique Cirne-Lima that focuses on a group of Latina trans women in the Humb...

Last year Mokha Montrese finished as the first runner up to 2009-10 queen Armani, who finally achieved her personal goal of seizing the crow...

It's Labor Day weekend, and one tradition that has happened in Chicago since 1980 is the Miss Continental Pageant. It's the nationa...

Rio de Janeiro! They're probably still depressed in Daley Plaza, Rush Street, Grant Park, the Navy Pier and elsewhere in Chicagoland a...

The International Olympic Committee meeting to determine who gets the 2016 Summer Olympics will be held on Friday and the Chicago 2016 deleg...

With Chicago being in a tight race to secure the 2016 Olympic Games and the October 2 decision date looming, the Chicago 2016 committee may ...

When the news about the horrific happenings at Chicago's historic Burr Oak Cemetery broke a few weeks ago I had this unsettling deja vu...