By Megan Scott Associated Press NEW YORK - Black America is in love with man in a dress. This one wears a wig, no bra and carries a gun. H...

Out of all the columns that I’ve written over the last two years, the one that plucks the most nerves and generated the most criticism (an...

by AG Casebeer Published in the Louisville Courier-Journal April 18, 2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------...

Every so often I get a reminder of the old saying 'the pen is mightier than the sword' and its relevance in today's techno go-...

Friends..I Got Friends Copyright 2006, THE LETTER Friends I got friends My values are with my Friends So glad that I I got friends And...

Ninety-nine percent of the time I am vehemently criticizing anything Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) says. But I have to agree with this statemen...

TransGriot Note: This is the text of the speech I delivered to the IFGE Conference in Philadelphia, PA on April 7, 2006 Giving honor to God,...

I'm in love with twenty-five guys. The twenty-five guys who wear the uniform of the Houston Astros, that is. ;) In addition to bei...

The recent release of the critically acclaimed and Oscar nominated movie `Transamerica' has once again focused attention on transgende...

One of my TSTB members posted to the list last week a comment about how surprised and shocked she was to see how some African-American tra...

By Jasmyne Cannick February 24, 2006 While images of Black men dressed as woman have become a popular part of Black American culture in e...

An Op-Ed piece that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle ---------------------------------------------------------------- Sylvia Guerr...

One of my guiding principles ever since I started transition in 1994 is that I want to be BETTER than the genetic women around me. It'...

Back in 2001 an African-American transwoman friend of mine went to Washington DC to lobby. She decided to concentrate on Congressional Bl...

From an August 2004 TransGriot Column Copyright 2004, THE LETTER -------------------------------------- One of the things that amuses m...

Faith Based Homophobes Copyright 2006, THE LETTER photo-Rev. Bernice King, Bishop Noel Jones African-American author Ralph Ellison once wrot...

Many of you have probably seen the 1990 Jennie Livingston 'Paris Is Burning' documentary which chronicles a slice of the Harlem dr...

Cathay Williams has the distinction of being the only female member of the legendary Buffalo Soldiers. How did she do so in a time when t...

Seems like everything is happening in my hometown since I moved in 2001. The Super Bowl, yesterday's NBA All-Star game, an NCAA Regi...

An MKR Poem What's up with the hateration Discrimination, segregation Obsfucation and miseducation Heaped upon the African nation? ...